I am a really hard worker. I really am. And when I do the job I am best trained for, I can get $100 an hour, depending on where I am. If I can do it. Where I am now, it's more like $25 an hour, and hard to get enough hours.
So I have a part time $8.20 an hour job - really like some of what we do here on mTurk. Except steadier. But I can only do 29 hours a week. Because otherwise they would have to provide health insurance.
And then when I get home I am cranky and walking through the door seems to change my mind about sitting down to work here. And I have to eat. For the last several weeks I am averaging like $1 a day here.
Don't tell me the economy is good. It isn't.
And all those seconds I spent whining I could have made pennies. :/