My husband and I don’t have as many marital rights as heterosexuals do
One would think that as someone who tests software for a living, that one wouldn’t want to work outside of the day job on a site like Mechanical Turk, but in my case, it’s a big help. I get lots of experience writing, and I earn a few bucks for some of life’s little luxuries. Why do it? Well, right now it’s because I have a husband who is sick and can’t work. I make enough for us to live on, but not enough to create a cushion. I’m not going to make six months of living expenses on Mechanical Turk, but every cent helps when I can drop it directly into an emergency savings account or add it to the amount sent in to pay debts. As gay men, my husband and I don’t have as many marital rights as heterosexuals do, so anything that brings in extra money is helpful. While his insurance is covered and he’s the beneficiary of my life insurance, he still wouldn’t get access to any pension I might have and I won’t even open the kettle of fish that is having young children. At least his family accepts me so I won’t have to deal with being banned from seeing him should he ever be hospitalized. Suffice to say that I need ways of finding even an extra five dollars here and there just to make sure we don’t have to worry in the future, and that’s what I get from Mechanical Turk.
