Mechanical Truk is my latest side gig - made about $1200 since May.
What are you doing for M.T. and how many hours are you putting into it?
Ditto - I'm thrilled when I make $5 a month to put towards cat food. I usually only do it when we have some down time at work, and lately that just hasn't existed for me.
LOL:) about the cat food:) You are not alone, lots of people don't make it past that and I still can't fathom how some people make $2K every single month. My goal is to get to $500 a month - ultimately. For now I've only made it up to $350 a month and practically nothing in August, because I've been sick.
MTurk is one of those things that has a learning curve. In the beginning I spent a fair amount of time learning about scripts, watching tutorials and setting up my turking strategy and I am still learning.
I'll try anything, but I do a lot of surveys, test apps or websites, language hits (I'm a native German speaker) - but as native American English speakers you can check out some of the Endor hits. I've found a few small batch requesters that I am always on the look out for. Once I hit 1000 approved hits that added about $2-$5 extra a day. I'm still a long way from 5K approved hits, so I am considering working on a big batch just to up my numbers. I might try to find something simple I can do while I am still sick and not feeling up to doing much. That might give me a boost for September.
Average time spent turking is 4 hours a day and I do approach it as a real job. I usually do 4 hours starting at 6am EST and then sometimes I will work an extra hour or two, afternoon or evening, off and on. I don't do weekends.
It takes time to get better and faster and I can tell you that every month I have improved my earnings.