Sounds great right? Wrong
I am a recent college graduate job hunting during the worst recession in recent memory. This is not an easy task and so when I heard about Mechanical Turk I was pretty excited. A way to make money with no strings attached? Sounds great right? Wrong. I mean it is a way to supplement my very small part time wage, but other than that it’s pretty awful. There have been times when I made about three dollars an hour. Three dollars an hour, how do you even live on that? About seven out of a hundred hits were rejected for no good reason, and I’m incredibly paranoid about all the crap I’ve downloaded onto my computer trying to get those fifty cent paychecks. I graduated about two months ago. The only job I had was a work study job, which obviously ended upon graduation. My job became job hunting. I looked, and looked, and looked some more. I had already been looking for about a month before that. So far I’ve had three interviews, one second interview, and one of those was only a phone interview. Everyone wants experience, but how am I supposed to get experience if no one will hire me? I should go back to grad school, but I can’t justify another 20 plus thousand dollars in student loans. So far the only job I’ve found is a 25 hour a week telemarketing job. I try to convince Pennsylvanian’s to support some random police organization. It’s probably a scam, and it’s horribly degrading. And everyone I work with is a drug addict. And it’s the only job I’ve been able to find in three months. And that’s the reason why I Turk.
