Curious about "turking." That sounds awesome, but I looked at the site and most jobs are for pennies. How on how much time do you have to put in to get $300 a month?
Usually about 4 hours in the morning - sometimes another 2 hrs spread throughout the day or evening. It varies, all I did today was 2 hrs spread throughout the day (I was busy with other things and I am still sick) made $10, nothing to write home about, but it's ten bucks that will be paid and transferred to my bank account by the end of the week:)
Snagged a $5 survey that took me 16 minutes to complete - that translates to almost $20 an hour, so I got lucky:)
I like the surveys, testing apps and doing foreign language hits. The penny hits/jobs you saw, are always there by the thousands, so somebody does them. A lot of successful turkers use scripts to speed up completing 5 - 12 cent hits to arrive at $6 to $15 an hour payment. Some people do well with transcription...
MTurk is intimidating and uber competitive with a considerable learning curve - a lot is about your speed, coding skills (I have none) and treating it as a real job.
I turk primarily M-F and since I am on EST time - getting up early means less competition for some of the European studies.
Mechanical Turk is one of those places that can be easy beer money - five bucks a day is easy to do or you can treat it like a job and consistently make over $1000 a month. I'm a casual turker, hoping to get to $500 a month, but I'll be fine with $300 for now. I'm still learning my way around the site. Turking is not for everyone, it is harder than it looks.
Anyway, to get back to my actual challenge - it is August and I've been sick with a bad case of shingles.
Good News:
I did super well in July - $350 at Mechanical Turk.
Bad News:
Practically nothing in August. Around $70 so far from the occasional 30 minutes to an hour of turking. Hopefully I will feel better in another week or two.
However, as luck would have it - our cell phone bill dropped by $43 (permanently-paid off phones) and I got a $10 coupon off a dinner at our favorite sports bar/restaurant. So technically - challenge of $50 - met successfully.Right now I am still feeling too sick to be motivated to do more - but there is still plenty of time left in August to let ideas percolate.
Oh, but now that I think about it - I did manage to hunt down the perfect set of ueber comfortable black leather office chairs - lumbar support and all that.
The lady at Ofc Depot tipped me off, there would be a sale when I went there for ink (they were only ten bucks off originally)- saved $80 each plus found a coupon on line for another $20.
Total savings $180, plus extra points on my cc and the in store rewards card. Not bad.
So how goes it in August? - Are you meeting or exceeding that extra $50 bucks?:)