03/21 - Worlock Wednesday

[JenniLeigh]

I just say that I do some independent contract work for various places. No one expects me not to suck, so they don't dig, they just assume it sucks lmao

 

[Michele]

Title: Decide How a Real Case Should Turn Out - Be a Mock Juror (P-EW-0088)(~ 75 minutes) | Accept Requester: Empirical Jury [A2QGI2L47S8HB0] Contact TV: [Hrly: $14.18] [Pay: 4.33] [Fast: 3.33] [Comm: 2.00] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 3.73] [Fast: 3.00] [Comm: 2.43] [Fair: 3.24] [Reviews: 46] [ToS: 0] TO2: [Hrly: $9.76] [Pen: 8.00 days] [Res: ---] [Rec: 50% of 2] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Reward: $9.05 Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes Available: 11 Description: This is a study of a real case. To participate you MUST agree to keep it confidential. You will answer some questions about yourself, read about a real case, and render a verdict . This contains a large amount of reading. Requirements: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; Exc: [2554925-79358] DoesNotExist; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 60; Location In US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.1.17​

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[tricker]

Well as I said, for well over a year straight on the old site you could count on good hit's being dropped from 9am est until 1pm. Now I'm hearing about zoltars dropping really early in the morning and it seems as though the tides have changed in regard's to when there is a steady flow of decent HIT's dropping.

Zoltars were posting several times a day in batches that lasted approx. 2 hours. They did that for a few weeks, but that seems to have dried up. So, I would say for that requester it was way more consistent than before.

Otherwise, I have seen no change, but I'm West Coast time. I do get up around 6am, though, and just this morning was able to do over $7 in just a bit over one hour in between breakfast/coffee/kid.

 

[theturkscribe]

If you've had any interest in IT support or are looking for a way to maybe get your foot in the door wrt tech jobs, this Coursera-Google IT Support certificate could be helpful. Per the email I received, they are still offering financial aid and encouraging ppl to apply.

https://www.mturkcrowd.com/threads/coursera-google-it-support-education-initiative.3144/

Thank you for sharing that!

 

[It's Gamera!]

Mad respect that you even tried. I've given up explaining to most anyone anymore. Now I simply do "internet based consulting work for companies such as Amazon" or something equally vague yet nice sounding. If I make it sound vague and confusing enough most people won't pry. Even if people understood turking, I got tired of the two invariable reactions I got- either looking at me with side eyes like it's too weird and not a real job and I'm probably lying, or wanting to jump in immediately and have me take hours and hours to teach them everything so they can make thousands of dollars every day while watching Real Housewives and eating bon bons and then give up on it after a day or two telling everyone what a terrible site it is and what a terrible job I have.

I just say that I train Skynet and people tend to scoot away. Should they press further, I say that I'm a freelancer with all kinds of various tech companies and while my pay is poop, it allows me to do stuff like go to the doctor, kills ninjas or faff about without having to report to anyone. You'd be surprised at how many people are envious over small bits of freedom like that, at least where I live.

 

[JenniLeigh]

@swag
http://www.swagbucks.com/offer?oid=9055&placementName=s

 

[Michele]

Title: Tell me what it's like to do work for Mechanical Turk | Accept Requester: Tyler Hill [A2C2OJ2CLDBDCA] Contact TV: No Reviews TO: No Reviews TO2: No Reviews Reward: $1.00 Duration: 1 hour Available: 1 Description: I'm looking for short (1-5 minutes) voice memos about your experience doing work on Mechanical Turk, or in the gig economy as a whole. This can be a poem, a specific anecdote, an audio diary entry, or whatever else. Cell phone recordings are fine. Requirements: None [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.1.17​

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[Jaded]

@swag
http://www.swagbucks.com/offer?oid=9055&placementName=s

Curse you @coffeeowl

 

[Mikeyyyyy]

Don't get caught with nothing to say when they ask what kind of consulting do you do for these companies

I already have a strategy in place if that happens. Run.

 

[Jharkan]

saw some boobs in the brianZ.
so I guess today isn't that bad, so far

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[tricker]

I just tried to explain what turking was to my brother-in-law and failed miserably. I need to write notes on an index card I keep in my purse.

I always say something like: I do work on a site hosted by Amazon. It's crowd-sourcing work, usually surveys for universities and small tasks for companies like Google who post work on Amazon.

Leaves out a lot but it's enough to satisfy people and it sounds legit using big names like Amazon and Google, lol.

 

[ALinAL]

Well as I said, for well over a year straight on the old site you could count on good hit's being dropped from 9am est until 1pm. Now I'm hearing about zoltars dropping really early in the morning and it seems as though the tides have changed in regard's to when there is a steady flow of decent HIT's dropping.

I've noticed the general flow has been very different over the past month or so.

 

[An Island in the Sun]

I always say something like: I do work on a site hosted by Amazon. It's crowd-sourcing work, usually surveys for universities and small tasks for companies like Google who post work on Amazon.

Leaves out a lot but it's enough to satisfy people and it sounds legit using big names like Amazon and Google, lol.

The problem with saying something like that for me is everyone gets dollar sign floating in their eyes and they want me to be their full-time personal coach to the world of turking, that is until they actually try it, hate it and go tell everyone how much what I do sucks.

 

[Michele]

Title: Guess how many dots (large performance bonus) | Accept Requester: andrew meyer [A27MITQOTS1AQW] Contact TV: [Hrly: $12.50] [Pay: 3.63] [Fast: 4.00] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 4.79] [Fast: 4.74] [Comm: 5.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Reviews: 57] [ToS: 1] TO2: [Hrly: $6.00] [Pen: ---] [Res: ---] [Rec: 100% of 2] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Reward: $0.25 Duration: 3 hours Available: 1 Description: Guess how many dots flash on the screen Requirements: dotsOverwrite DoesNotExist; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 98; Total approved HITs GreaterThan 50; Location EqualTo US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.1.17​

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[C to the J]

I've noticed the general flow has been very different over the past month or so.

You either have to be here 18 hours a day like me and @It's Gamera! or you get nothing, you lose.

 

[Veltora Otew]

Mad respect that you even tried. I've given up explaining to most anyone anymore. Now I simply do "internet based consulting work for companies such as Amazon" or something equally vague yet nice sounding. If I make it sound vague and confusing enough most people won't pry. Even if people understood turking, I got tired of the two invariable reactions I got- either looking at me with side eyes like it's too weird and not a real job and I'm probably lying, or wanting to jump in immediately and have me take hours and hours to teach them everything so they can make thousands of dollars every day while watching Real Housewives and eating bon bons and then give up on it after a day or two telling everyone what a terrible site it is and what a terrible job I have.

I just tell them it's none of their damn business and leave it at that. Usually works for me, but I'm a big guy.

 

[Jaded]

You either have to be here 18 hours a day like me and @It's Gamera! or you get nothing, you lose.

Being here 18 hours a day sounds like losing.

 

[Michele]

Title: Transcribe a 27:06 minute audio interview | Accept Requester: Erin Shier [A37A6NJSI3MC1F] Contact TV: No Reviews TO: No Reviews TO2: No Reviews Reward: $22.00 Duration: 8 hours Available: 1 Description: Transcribe a 27:06 minute audio interview Requirements: None [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.1.17​

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[ALinAL]

I always say something like: I do work on a site hosted by Amazon. It's crowd-sourcing work, usually surveys for universities and small tasks for companies like Google who post work on Amazon.

Leaves out a lot but it's enough to satisfy people and it sounds legit using big names like Amazon and Google, lol.

I perform research assistance and data entry for companies and Universities, worldwide.

 

[An Island in the Sun]

You either have to be here 18 hours a day like me and @It's Gamera! or you get nothing, you lose.

Ahem. I think I could out-x-hours-a-day-turking most of you!