^ I found things got better at 1k, and even better at 2k. I see a lot of 5ks I wish I could do, too. My advice is to find one source of quick, reliable low-paying hits and stick with it. For me it was the 2 and 3 cent business card transcriptions when they're up, then Crowdflowers which are slower but pay better and are pretty much always up, and then keep checking in and try to catch an Amazon A9 batch, I got my second thousand off of one day when they posted two big batches while I was on.