Please stop suggesting Mechanical Turk to people in financial need. its a horrible waste of time.

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upnflames · 14時間前

Planet Money on NPR did a really nice piece on Mechanical Turk a while back The People Inside Your Machine. They interviewed a few of the turks and it sounded like the people really didn't have many other options, but acknowledged that the work was really, really low paying and it was pretty labor intensive to make real money. They also talked about how there are so many people doing it and so many companies interested in the work that it drives the cost of even harder HIT's down.

PM_ME_YOUR_BLASTOISE · 10時間前

Best mturk was writing porn descriptions made like 45$ an hour for about 2 hours a day for a month then they cut their rate by 90%

babbbbbit · 12時間前

I did Mechanical Turk for about a month or two about 4 years ago, right after I graduated from college and was completely broke and couldn't find a job. I can't remember completely, but I feel like I must have earned about $100 in that time. It was nice to have it because it meant I could eat, I was totally desperate.

But I definitely felt completely exploited. I was also scammed out of a $15 job that probably took about 6 or 7 hours to complete, it was basically scouring through a shitty real estate magazine in Florida and doing data entry on the ads, locations etc.

The company had me email them an excel sheet from my personal email, which was my mistake. They were then "unable to open my excel file" and so couldn't pay me the measly 15 dollars for 7 hours of work, sorry! That felt pretty terrible actually. Mechanical Turk is pretty depressing.

skekze · 12時間前

I just like how Amazon sidestepped the hourly rate laws and then combined the working pool with India to lower rates to the floor. A two hour transcription could take 8 for a beginner, especially if there's more than one speaker and they want you to clean up the rambling accented speech. The payrates are probably worse than a calling center. America's new job market, a virtual pickup truck, just jump in back and you can earn a few cents here and there for your ever-changing virtual manager.

UnderwaterPenguin · 12時間前

mechanical turk is essentially a digital sweatshop

turkturkelton · 11時間前

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alisonte · 12時間前

I agree and disagree. I've been using murk on and off for about 4 years, and I agree that it is NOT the best way to make money. If you're desperate, the time is better spent going to a temp agency or applying to jobs online. It will never pay your bills or keep you afloat without any other source of income. There's a high learning curve with little reward.

I actually use mturk as a budgeting tool, which I believe keeps it relevant for this sub. If I want something totally frivolous and it's not in my budget, I make myself save up for it on mturk. For example, I am a big Christmas spender and I usually try to save about $500 on mturk throughout the year so I'm not digging into my savings. For me, the time spent is worth it.

I try to log on for 30mins to an hour during the week and do a few surveys or tasks from fair requesters. Usually I'll make between $3-$5. It's not great pay, but I have the luxury of being able to quit when there are only crappy HITS left because I know the money is not a necessity. I've also invested a lot of time in scripts and knowing how to find the best HITS.

Mturk is not irrelevant, but it's not a great idea for someone who needs to pay their electric bill tomorrow or feed a family.

sadistic_cat · 9時間前

Transcribing a 2 hour movie, for a very experienced transcriptionist with the right software, equipment would take approximately 5 hours.

Source: Was a very good medical transcriptionist for 10 years.

catjuggler · 11時間前

I used to do it because it was kind of fun. Made about $200, mostly from one good hit that i bumped out several of over the course of a hour or so. And this weekend I got in the mail a class action settlement check for $2 for how poorly I was paid for some hit- lol.

doubleaxel1951 · 9時間前

I used to use Mturk when I was 16 (nearly 10 years ago) to try to make some extra money. I can't believe the things I did for pennies. There were also some ethical questions you have to ask yourself. At least 10 years ago, there would be people there asking people to write (low-quality) articles on topics like water skiing safety. Unfortunately, I remember writing an article on water skiing safety and I have never even been water skiing.

If you do get contacted for private work though, it can pay decent. I remember someone contacted me to ghost write an ebook. I got $500-$1000 for the writing (can't quite remember the exact amount) and ~$500 to record my voice reading it. o_0 kinda creeps me out how my voice is floating out there on the internet.

Also, at the time to a 16 year old, $1000- $1500 seems like a lot of money, but looking back at it, the guy wanted 12 chapters and I remember it took me a long time and I was stressing out about getting it done at a certain time even to the point of having to work on it during a family vacation.

Account000_0 · 9時間前

Judging from this entire thread even the people who rabidly defend MTurk still say they only make minimum wage on a GOOD day.

It seems like just a bad thing to recommend. Avoid Mechanical Turk.

Honestly if someone was really desperate then I would recommend busking. You'll make more than you would make on MTurk and at least you'll be out in the sun getting your Vitamin D instead of working in a digital sweatshop for some sleazy company.

cartechguy · 12時間前

Seriously, how do I contract people on this site? It's insane what I hear you guys doing for so little.

wordofbird · 12時間前

It's never gonna make you rich, but it's not as bad as you describe. First of all, don't take HITs that pay shit. Second, keep your rejection rate at 0% or as close to it as possible. The good HITs require very strict standards. Third, it's the shittiest in the beginning because you won't even see the higher paying jobs until you've had a good number of jobs accepted.

Anyway all that considered, it's still not gonna make you much more than beer money unless you're working crazy hours. The site is much better if you live in India or Thailand or some place like that where the cost of living is much lower so the same amount of dollars earned is actually worth more.

dwdrums36 · 11時間前

UpWork (previously oDesk) is the best way for people to earn some extra dough in my opinion. Its not get rich quick by any stretch, but its transparent, offers easy payment, and you can do pretty well. There is a fair number of low pay jobs (populate this spread sheet for a penny a row), plenty in the middle (need this transcribed, SEO writing, etc.) and also, plenty of high pay jobs if you can find the right folks (editing formal documents, writing consistent press releases). I write quite a bit (and well, if I may say so), and after being on the site for two-three years can generally charge $15-$25 an hour depending on the type of work. I also maintain three clients that have come to trust my work. With a bit of work, you can do pretty well.

The_Sum · 13時間前

Alright, so I'll step in.

Mech Turk. works if you do the research and you know the game. Sitting there transcribing receipts is how you start. Yes, it's slow, boring work if you type less than 60WPM.

The point of the receipts or the other simple mundane easy work is simply to get your Approved Ratio up high enough that you can do the more paying jobs.

Around 350+ You start surveys. Not using the greasemonkey addon or the numerous sites that are built to track, warn and give you surveys that are worth 50+ cents is doing it completely wrong. You must have these if you're going to do even remotely well.

Surveys start to take up 5 to 10 minutes of your time, so you do multiples at once because they often have an hour and more time limit.

At the end of the day with at least 3 to 5 hours of work you should have made $25 to $50 assuming a -good- day. Bad day you should walk away with $15.

Should you use M. Turk if you're in financial need? Depends how great your need is. For many people this isn't going to be a living wage. You need beer money? Cover your entertainment budget? Christmas gifts? Vacation? I'd recommend it.

The learning curve for M. Turk can be steep if you don't follow the forums, the subreddit and aren't willing to learn by researching.

w32trojan · 7時間前

Disclaimer 1: I am a "Masters" qualified mechanical turker with 2 years and almost 25,000 HITs under my belt. You're not going to start on day 1 and make big bucks, but that's not to say it's impossible.

I average $200-250/week from Mechanical Turk on top of my own business doing electronics repair and contract IT work.

Nobody is saying you can survive on Mechanical Turk alone (although I come pretty close), it's DEFINITELY a viable option for people with part time jobs or underpaying jobs looking to turn spare time into extra income.

A few examples of work I've done within the last 30 days (not old, outdated "I turked a few years ago" examples, but recent work):

"Watch a video and rate the skill of a robotic surgeon." $1.25 for ~8 minutes. = ~$9.38/hr

"Read words off of the prompt to help train our voice recognition software" $0.05 for ~6 seconds. = $30.00/hr. I spent about 45 minutes doing 500 of these (the max this particular requester [employer] allows you to do). That was $25 in 45 minutes.

If you want to know how an average day goes for me, I'm on the PC by 8, and off the PC by 5, I work from home in my pajamas (unless I'm out on a service call for my primary job) and I pull in $1,000/mo just from Mechanical Turk.

Don't believe me? Here's a screenshot from one week last month when work was PARTICULARLY slow, and I would have been paying more than a few bills late if it hadn't been for MTurk.

http://imgur.com/ndyFqqP

tl;dr if you want to start tomorrow and make minimum wage, don't even think about it. If you want to make an extra fifty bucks a week, with the option to make more, it's not a waste of time, and it's not slave labor, unless you choose the slave labor work, and that's your fault.

Budhavan · 4時間前

PF showerthought: What if all the people that are commenting on how Mturk is so good are actually doing these as HITS and getting payed for it...

asaprockylovesemily · 15時間前

I still do surveys and stuff on MTurk when I am bored (I'm 3 hits shy of hitting 15.3k hits completed -- a lot of hits will open up to you once you hit the 1000, 5000, and 10000 hits-completed mark), but I did work on there more often from the end of 2014 -- my first month, just learning the site, I made about $400 -- up to before the fall of 2015 and managed to make a little under 4k from MTurk alone. Pay definitely is still lousy in the grand scheme of things like /u/kylejack said, but it is there.

If you put the time into it, there is money there -- you really will get out what you put in. There are people who put in more time and more effort and come out with a lot more money -- it's a matter of finding the right hits (I would use different forums and scripts) that payout the most in relation to the time you're putting in. A good hit is considered to have a pay of no less than $0.10/minute, so something like that 3 cents for 20 minutes of 1 cent for 5 minutes are jobs I wouldn't even touch with a stick.

throwthrowthrow82 · 11時間前

There's some truth to what you're saying but you also haven't put the time and effort to really succeed at it. I think most people will not find mturk to be viable, just because there's a long startup period before you can really make a decent amount of money.

In the beginning, I was making about $5 an hour and on average when I spent most of my time there, I was making $10 an hour. It's not the greatest amount, but it was perfect for me since I was a Student with random amounts of spare time to spend on it. Being efficient and knowing how to use all the tools available definitely makes a big difference, and at one point, I was making around $25 an hour due to my stats and access to requesters.

I don't think you went about it the right way, because who in their right mind would do those cheap paying hits. The problem with MTurk these days is the lack of decent HITs in general due to competition and changes to the rules.

The one thing that I will always be grateful for with MTurk is that it helped me through college, and actually played a part in helping me get the job I have now by using my experiences with some top requesters.

My stats for proof: https://gyazo.com/83fc7060f9d22e94e4da8fb2db9d74a2

VeryTerribleAtSpace · 10時間前

Summary of all replies:

Doing "good" on MT is making $5 to $6 an hour while doing the most tedious, sketchy work imaginable.

E: Why are people on this sub more inclined to recommend MT than, say, busking?

workacct20910 · 8時間前

I've made $1200 in a bit over a year and half mainly while watching TV or killing time at work on conference calls etc. It's more productive than playing video games and that money has gone to paying student loans.

genitiveofnegation · 13時間前

Yeah, MTurk didn't work for you because you're doing it completely wrong. In 14 days of casual turking, I've made $85 on only 350 hits. None rejected. That's not even counting the $15 I have pending (edit: actually about $25 waiting to post, I missed a few), and I expect it to get even easier once I've cleared 500 and then 1000 hits. It's unfortunate that MTurk has so many shitty hits available, but here's the thing: DON'T DO THOSE. There's plenty of good information out there about how to leverage MTurk efficiently. I expect to snag an extra ~$200 this month from MTurk, if not more, and it hasn't been difficult or frustrating. So yes, I would definitely recommend it for someone who could use a little extra cash who's also willing to learn to do it effectively.

sudojay · 11時間前

Also I've worked at a few places that used Mechanical Turk. The people setting up the HITs are often no more qualified (sometimes less so) than the people performing the HITs. The screening is pretty bad and often incorrect. I'm a legitimate professional in my field with almost a decade of experience both as an analyst and manager, and couldn't pass some of the screening, mainly because they expected applicants to perform tasks neither necessary nor dictated by the HIT itself. I would not waste my time with Mechanical Turk.

asdfjlk55 · 10時間前

I like PineCone Research. Sounds similar in that you take lots of surveys but you get $3 per survey that takes ~15 minutes to complete. Sometimes they send you free stuff to try and pay you to rate it (rarely). It's still not much, but I can complete a survey during my downtime at work.

tlahpalli · 7時間前

Any time someone is looking for help to make extra money or even a solid income, I send my list of things I use (mostly passive apps I learned about from r/beermoney) which currently bring in over $200/month. They run on their own and I at least have some income coming in while looking for higher paying work.

I don't do surveys, mturk stuff, or things that are not worth the time and resources for the incentives they offer.

I've been unemployed and found a lot of great resources to make good money till I got back into a full time job. But even working full time, I still use those passive apps ($200/month average) for the extra money and I invest it(when it's cash) or build up my Amazon gift card balance for big purchases.

Lovenomad · 10時間前

My 3 month earnings. I'm a very casual turker and for me it's been rewarding. I typically only do work that other people have already said was an easy buck. I don't waste my time on penny hits. Sometimes I'll do really easy hits that are 3-6 cents and stack up fast. Otherwise I take surveys that are a few minutes long and pay well. And I test websites and do hits for people who give performance bonuses. Hitgrabber.com makes turking extremely casual as it does all the work of finding good hits for you and sends you a ding when one pops up. I'm not saying it's a cure for poverty but if I actually dedicated my time to it I'd be making decent money for a guy who's stuck in the house.

TexasSteve3452345 · 13時間前

I used to do work on Mturk when I was young. Now I do the requesting. The rates are really cheap so it is worth it.

tappingthesource · 9時間前

It's better to teach English online using your webcam. You can get about 7-8 hr without any experience

rdulany · 6時間前

Actually I've made over 4 grand this year from January through March, allowing me to help pay off my 10 year student loan in 1.5 years. Turk helped A LOT with it. Just like everything else in life, there is a significant learning curve on what HITs to look out for and what to avoid. Just because you worked out that a few HITs posted on there are the equivalent to slave wages, which I will not argue, it does not mean that lucrative work is not regularly posted on there. I've made well over 8 grand on Turk being active for about 7 months. It can easily cover a monthly car payment or help out with bills. Don't be so jaded about it because you didn't take the time to figure it out. I've shown this to many friends and family members who thank me every time I see them for showing it to them. Personally, I've taken about a 1.5 month break/hiatus after paying off my loan, but I intend to get back into it setting a more realistic $500/month goal for myself, instead of the $250-450 a week I was pulling in and burning myself out with previously.

Edit: in my 'prime' going HAM, I was regularly making $10/hr and up to $30+ an hour when good Google HITs were up. It's not always this good, but I usually didn't work for less, unless I genuinely liked the job or was bored with nothing better to do. I worked a lot during down time at work, and when I got home, so time would vary daily on how many hours I'd put in. Doing this on top of my full time wages really helped out a lot and took the pressure off me financially, therefore I would definitely recommend this, and have done so many times, to people willing to learn how to do it right to check out MTurk. My best two months I made roughly $1800 and $1760 in extra income, which is nothing to sneeze at. Is it for everyone? Hell no. But it's a suggestion. There are NO handouts on there, but damn good extra money for those willing to put the time and effort into learning, and digging themselves out of debt.

texas_10_4 · 6時間前

So you've done 529 hits which paid you $22.83 I've done 713 which paid me $188.23

Basically you had a bad experience and now you're telling people to not even bother...

Mturk isn't a job. It's a way for you to make a few dollars when you'd be wasting your time whining on the internet.

I have the hwtf subreddit bookmarked, I click it whenever I get on my laptop. I do a few of the higher paying hits that I qualify for and then I'm done. I don't even have 1,000+ hits approved, or the masters qualification.

redditor1983 · 12時間前

I'm genuinely curious what the intent of the "Find this movie and take a screenshot of it if you're on AT&T" is...

Why would someone pay someone to do that?

Devh1989 · 5時間前

There's been a HIT up literally all day today that pays around $8 an hour going slow, without scripts. With scripts and working diligently, that easily doubles or more, to around $16-18 an hour. 2 cents a HIT. Each HIT taking around 8-9 seconds without scripts, 3-4 with. They were up all day. They are still popping up.

There are SO many tools at your disposal to get your hourly rate well above minimum wage. Forums. Scripts. Subreddits. Turkopticon's pay rating especially (Turkopticon is the review website, pretty much worker's only defense against bad requesters)

Personally I find the best use out of it when I'm multitasking. I work a part time job where I have access to a computer. When I'm at home, my scripts are running in the background alerting me when well paying hits pop up (99% of great paying HITs are gone INSTANTLY). When its slow, I refuse to do low paying HITs. I haven't touched receipt transcription. I would rather do something else with my time. Netflix, game, or study for an upcoming certification exam.

I've been turking just over 3 months. I've made $3450 including pending HITs. I'd guess I work around 4-6 hours a day not counting scripts running in the background, but its hard for me to actually tell because when its slow I just do something else, but keep my scripts running. Again I don't touch the reciept HITs. I don't touch anything that looks like its going to pay less than 10 cents a minute ($6 an hour). Thats the bare minimum. My average is significantly higher. Lately I haven't even been accepting HITs that pay 10 cents a minute either.

I just made $100 in a single day this past Thursday too. Put in around 6 hours that day.

And worrying about rejections, I have 5 rejections out of 21748 HITs.

There are cons. Its inconsistent. If you don't use external tools you're going to have a bad time. Its a slow ish start until you reach the higher HIT thresholds (though I didn't have trouble hitting $20 a day even under 1000 hits, I hit $10 on my 4th day, 20 on my 10th, 30 on my 11th, and 40 on my 13th) Although most requesters are honorable, nothing stops them from rejecting your useful work.

All in all though, when used correctly, it is several hundred times better than some traditional minimum wage part time job, at least for me.

Edit, before someone works out my 4-6 hour average estimate, I've taken 3 seperate road trips in the past 3 months. I still turked on them, but barely. And when I started turking, I'd only do it for like 10-20 minutes each day. My goal was literally $3 a day, then $5, then $10, then $20, now I try to hit $40 minimum on weekdays and $20 on weekends. Once I got into scripts, this shit was easy money.

Edit2, I made $40 in around 2.5 hours today (Sundays are traditionally slow, but the above mentioned HIT made it worth it, if I put in 4-6 hours I could have easily topped $80). I spent around 4 hours hanging out with friends. I watched Game of Thrones, and the Warriors/Thunder game.

pacers101 · 5時間前

ehh, not great but I wouldn't say you can't make anything. I have a felony and not deemed worthy of being employable like the rest of you so I do this. I'd rather have the steady guaranteed money where I can sit around talk to people and still get paid. but this will do for now... http://i.imgur.com/31qTw1u.png

kwark_uk · 9時間前

This is a case of user error.

PsylentKnight · 11時間前

This is why I unsubbed from /r/beermoney, because this is the kind of bs that always got suggested... spending hours to make a few cents.

If you want to make more money, learn a skill instead of doing mind numbingly repetitive tasks for a hundredth of minimum wage.

Pregxi · 8時間前

I did a bit of Turking when I was in undergrad. I didn't make a ton of cash but getting to help out with research kind of made up for that loss. I know this is /r/personalfinance, so the monetary reward is paramount but those who want something to do that will be helpful and earn them a bit of extra cash should be encouraged to use the site, not those in financial need.

Now that I'm in grad school, I'm going to be using it from the other side. I'm going to try and do $6 an hour minimum HITS because really anything else is not particularly ethical in my opinion. However, I do think it's unfair when people think of it solely as a job. It's for research which is much closer to asking for someone's help with charity.

Suedezilla · 7時間前

I also did not have much success with MTurk. I opted for a more passive approach to make a few bucks on the internet and put my experiences up Here. I don't believe in get rich quick things online but a few extra bucks a week to pay for diapers or formula is certainly nice and realistic if you go in with the right mind set.

aerovistae · 7時間前

i thought mechanical turk got shut down

Oracular7 · 7時間前

Did MTurk for a month or two before I realized this exact thing; the pay is garbage. Not even in comparison to a "real" job but even to other beermoney sites. I made hundreds of dollars on swagbucks with no effort, MTurk made me $20 and it was actual work. If you want to do actual online work, use Clickworker (do UHRS). Good pay, near $15-$20/hr.

cheezewazzers · 7時間前

Can Canadians do MTurk with Amazon.com?

siquemind4513 · 6時間前

thanks for this. keep scrubs off our platform

FlexGunship · 5時間前

To be fair, keep in mind what it is... it's tasks that you can volunteer to do. Amidst your volunteering, you can be paid for some, more valuable, tasks.

If this arrangement doesn't benefit your financial scenario then don't do it. If it does benefits your financial scenario then do it.

EDIT: Also, remember what Amazon is trying to accomplish. They're hoping people will exploit the system. That's the perfect outcome. You write a Python program that parses weekly supermarket flyers into spreadsheets and you can make an arbitrarily large amount of money every week. You win. Amazon wins. Your customer wins.

DPOY_JamesHarden · 7時間前

This subreddit keeps getting worse and worse.

I used mturk from 2012 to 2015 to keep myself in school and not starving. Dedicating about 4 hours a night using the available scripts I was pulling in between 30 and 60 per night. Which was on my own time and worked with my schedule. Was it monotonous? Yup. But I was pulling in about 300 a week doing 20 hours of work when I had time available and more if needed on a weekend.

It's actually very easy and the person who typed this out is coming off very biased. Yes there's a learning curve but I think any one could figure it out in a few days.
I Edit: I remember there were very good batches that paid easily 15 to 20 ah hour. One in particular was just watching videos and giving them a genre. Made about 180 in 6 hours of work.

Edi2: can't comment but some idiot below said it shouldn't require scripts. This is about making money not the function of the site. I just logged in and pulled a 20$ in under an hour through transcripts.

kirsion · 14時間前

I've been making "online money" for years since high school and mturk is by far one of the best websites for it. Of course it's no way being a source income for most people, but it's great as side money or people can't get a real job. And to make decent money, 10-$20 day for me, you have to know how to work the system, ie, doing the right hits, using scripts, which you clearly don't.

Here's an example how much I made over 2.5 years.

milehighmanny · 14時間前

ITT: MTurk didn't meet OP's (possibly unrealistic) expectations so obviously it's not for anyone. I think that's how that usually works.

possiblyarealdeer · 10時間前

It's not ideal by any means. It takes a good bit of dedication to find the right HITS to do... but at the same time if it's your only option it can be a life saver. I was able to pay off a credit card using MTURK. Sadly, one of the requestors that was a decently large chunk of that no longer offers up work.

It can be better than you say, by a decent amount, but I would never call it easy. Depending on someone's circumstances it can certainly help, though.

I've been "out of the game" for a while now and can't get the mental energy needed to get back into things. With dedication and the right information, though, someone can certainly get a needed boost.

The_Wisenheimer · 8時間前

I find it kind of crazy that Amazon can abuse the contractor's exemption of federal law to pay less than minimum wage. That should be illegal.

I mean, flipping burgers is not a glamorous job, but at least you're making the minimum wage of $15 an hour. Paying less than that because someone is a "contractor" should not be possible.

bxpretzel · 6時間前

I don't know why you think it's a waste of time. Seems like you just weren't good at it. Plenty of people make quite good money. http://i.imgur.com/ktQ3AhM.jpg

kylejack · 15時間前

There's people doing a hundred bucks a day. I think they're probably working 12 hours or more, so it's pretty lousy pay to be sure, but it can be a good passive option for people who have downtime at their main job or stay-at-home parents who need to be working from the house with something lowkey.

Your screenshots show only 500 hits completed, and many of the juicier hits want people with 1,000 or 10,000 hits completed, so you're not an ideal test-case.

Just because something is not right for you doesn't mean it's not right for someone. Also, I made about twice as much as you testing it out on about half as many hits, so you may have an issue with which hits you're selecting, too.

ew73 · 10時間前

Just as a side note, those weird tasks where you're sorting images or being asked, "Is this a picture of a cat or a gas station?" is data that's being fed back into machine learning systems as training data. Please don't fuck it up intentionally, machine learning is super awesome and the research is important.

available_username2 · 12時間前

Unless you live in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mr-Yellow · 7時間前

ITT: I make $2/hr over the many hours I dedicate per month, it adds up to enough for a treat every so often, therefore you are obviously doing it wrong.

Mobely · 7時間前

On the flip side, MT is more a place for people with bots. Transcribe a 2 hour movie? If you can run it through siri or just enter gibberish, you can do 100s of hits and make good money dealing shit. I believe theres a whole forum devoted to MT bots.

tragicdream · 7時間前

As someone who made hundreds of dollars screwing around on mturk last year with 5 other windows open putting in minimal effort... here, have an upvote. Mturk sucks, move along, don't bother

Hatcheyy · 5時間前

Not enough time to read all of this, but as someone who has been turking for around 2 years now.

Yes, it sucks in the beginning, but it's not bad. I don't work for anything less than $15 an hour now.

It simply takes effort, research, and motivation to make money. The examples OP linked are ridiculous and he's really doing nothing other than showcasing extreme examples of the bad side. I could easily go and pull examples that show upwards of $0.30 a minute.

m1327 · 9時間前

Sorry OP, but you're just wrong here. I'm a mod on /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor and I've done mTurk a bit back in the day. I stopped turking a few years ago because I got a different job, but when I was doing it -- it was mostly during work and I made decent $. Typically I was making $.50 per hit, and they were all really quick. I'd spend a minutes here and there just doing some hits at work - and before you know it you've got an extra few hundred bux.

Proof of earnings: http://i.imgur.com/jVZZQCz.png

PLEASE STOP SUGGESTING THIS SITE FOR PEOPLE IN FINANCIAL NEED.. YOU CAN NOT EARN ANYTHING SUBSTANTIAL FROM IT.....

I'd say 1,500 bux is substantial.. and it was super easy to make.

calamnet2 · 14時間前

Just because your experience is beyond horrible, doesn't mean it's an issue with MTurk. When I did it, I made around $700 in 3-4 months.

Jared72886 · 9時間前

I've done over 385,000 hits on Mturk and made roughly $17,800 from 2010 to 2015 as side work. I wouldn't recommend it unless you are in dire need for money. Like others said it all depends on which hits you choose but to make more then minimum wage is difficult. Majority of the hits I did were audio transcriptions. Proof: http://imgur.com/FCt3uc5

RacheleNY4 · 4時間前

...I've made over 32,000 dollars on Mechanical Turk.

aBoglehead · 15時間前

The people that "need" mechanical turk are short on options to begin with. It is not true that you "can not earn anything substantial from it," but getting there takes a substantial time investment that most short-timers will never make.

TheMrShadySlim · 11時間前

It's honestly a waste of time. It is mind numbing and takes way too long to make a good payoff.

You are way better off learning some programming or working on art on your free time. From there you could make an indie game over time or maybe sell some nice woodwork or something. Hell just use Uber at that point.


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