The Mechanical Turk Diaries

Voices of Amazon's Anonymous Workforce Mechanical Turk


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In a few months, I’ll burn up again

I’ve a good job, good friends a decent car and I’ve been in debt for the past few years, every time I’ve been about to get out of debt, something happens and I stay in the same situation, so, usually, I’ve little to no money to spend on my hobbies, which is kind of sad. About six months ago, I was reading a blog about my hobby and read how the author was buying all this stuff from money he was getting from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, I started researching about it, learned how it wasn’t a scam and how many people where able to buy so much stuff without doing hard work, just filling surveys, answering questions and doing a bit of research, all of which I did in my spare time anyway, so I signed up, and in my first month I made about one hundred and fifty dollars, and it was all spent on my hobby, it felt good, since I wasn’t “wasting” salary, so I kept doing it, every day a few minutes here and there, I was able to get about four hundred dollars and a lot of new stuff thanks to this, I was even able to buy gifts for friends and family without having to actually spend money on them. I was hooked. After a while, I had to take some time off, and started turking less often, right now, I’m starting to come back to it, I want some extra stuff and I know I can get the money I need by doing these HITs, probably in a few months, I’ll burn up again and I’ll have to take a few weeks off, sometimes, I feel that Mechanical Turk is becoming more and more a second job.

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