I was very hesitant at first
I wanted to have a little extra cash to buy my mom exactly what she wanted for her birthday so I decided to use mechanical turk. I was very hesitant at first, knowing about all the scams that plague ‘internet fast cash’, and while this is certainly not fast cash- it is actual money. Made a dollar my first day with minimal stress, and I figure even if make a dollar a day until the day of my moms birthday it will be enough to buy what I want. I’m glad I have an opportunity outside of my regular work to earn extra cash. My favorite type of tasks are the surveys because they’re usually quick and simple and don’t take a lot of higher level thinking. I can easily zip through them and know that I will have completed all the tasks rather than having to worry about getting them rejected because of incompleteness due to bogus rules. I have also found that some HITS are close to impossible, so I really try to stay away from those. I’ve told a few of my friends about mechanical turk but they mostly don’t believe me or believe it is a scam [I guess we’ll see!]. All in all, it has so far been a very good experience.If this works out I could see me using mechanical turk in the future frequently due to the ease of working from home and working from my computer. I am very happy with Amazon.
