So, I will go ahead and share the first little tidbit I have found. Mechanical Turk. This is called mturk for short. It's a site ran by Amazon. I have been doing this a few days and have earned approximately $20.00 doing odd jobs, or HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks). I have transcribed business cards, graded audio transcriptions, and participated in research surveys, among other activities. Some are mundane, some are fascinating. The ones I have been paid for range from $0.01 to $1.00, with my average being $0.07. I am okay with this. I don't accept the highest paying ones, they seem to be mostly ways for companies to acquire my email address. I also avoid the ones that are asking me to post an advertisement on a 3rd party website. I could make alot more if I did these two things.
What I have learned so far is that I shouldn't expect too much from mturk and I need to become acquainted with some of the companies that post often. I have already done this with one of the transcription companies. Also, I should work on my transcription skills as there are alot of those jobs and they pay better than the average. I want to be able to make approximately 10 times what I am now. I will work up to it.
There are other websites similar to this one. One that I have signed up for is ShortTask. I haven't completed any tasks. It is very similar to mturk and seems to be almost the same. The main difference is ShortTask pays through PayPal and mturk pays through Amazon and can direct deposit into a US checking account. I will look a little further into this company and post about it in the near future.
Feel free to ask me any questions. I promise I will respond. I also promise that this blog will have no scams within my writing. If you find one of my ideas to be shady, please let me know.
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