11/18 - Friendly Friday!

[thedorchannel]

@Blue how did you find mturk?

 

[Kadauchi]

Cool, I'll look for it. What all can you use it with?

HIT Finder, and w/e else you code to use with it.

WOW. You gonna make another annual post @Kadauchi lol? Well, you're certainly breaking the $30 a day mark, lol

Nope.

Surveys?

Everything, long days, etc...

What's that method?

Everything, long days, etc...

 

[Drwho10]

waiting for the work talk to finish and the fun to begin

 

[Blue]

@Blue how did you find mturk?

When I was in the hospital recovering from the cancer I promised myself I wasn't ever going to be a wage slave for someone else again... so I started looking for methods to work my own flexible hours from home that would be enough to live off of and support a business while I got it started.

 

[thedorchannel]

When I was in the hospital recovering from the cancer I promised myself I wasn't ever going to be a wage slave for someone else again... so I started looking for methods to work my own flexible hours from home that would be enough to live off of and support a business while I got it started.

that is fucking amazing.

 

[thedorchannel]

waiting for the work talk to finish and the fun to begin

@Drwho10 , how did you find mturk?

 

[RaffRiffofTurk]

When I was in the hospital recovering from the cancer I promised myself I wasn't ever going to be a wage slave for someone else again... so I started looking for methods to work my own flexible hours from home that would be enough to live off of and support a business while I got it started.

Man that beats the ever loving shit out of how I found the Turk. You should contact Hollywood because I would watch that movie.

 

[Blue]

that is fucking amazing.

I see a lot of people on the forum bemoan working on mturk... calling it a dead end road in their life and such... but honestly for me it's been a road to freedom. I started turking just after I got out of the hospital... I knew I wanted to be a pro photographer but I had no equipment, while I was in the hospital everything I owned was in storage and eventually I wasn't able to pay it so I lost pretty much everything. I turked really heavily (sometimes as much as 80-100 hours in a single week ) and ran a small town computer repair business until I got enough saved up to buy some really basic camera equipment. Then I shut the computer biz down, moved to a more metropolitan area with my gf and started the photog business up. I knew from my research that most small businesses take about 5 years to start actually turning a profit... so I knew I had to really hone my turking to a fine edge so that it could support me and the photog biz expenses over an extended period of time.

Honestly... turking isn't all that fun, but it definitely is what you make of it.

 

[DesolationRow]

I see a lot of people on the forum bemoan working on mturk... calling it a dead end road in their life and such... but honestly for me it's been a road to freedom. I started turking just after I got out of the hospital... I knew I wanted to be a pro photographer but I had no equipment, while I was in the hospital everything I owned was in storage and eventually I wasn't able to pay it so I lost pretty much everything. I turked really heavily (sometimes as much as 80-100 hours in a single week ) and ran a small town computer repair business until I got enough saved up to buy some really basic camera equipment. Then I shut the computer biz down, moved to a more metropolitan area with my gf and started the photog business up. I knew from my research that most small businesses take about 5 years to start actually turning a profit... so I knew I had to really hone my turking to a fine edge so that it could support me and the photog biz expenses over an extended period of time.

Honestly... turking isn't all that fun, but it definitely is what you make of it.

Interesting story. On the turking side of things - basically you're saying that because you have knowledge of computers you are able to make your own scripts that allow you to make $100+ a day ?

 

[Drwho10]

@Drwho10 , how did you find mturk?

A motovlog of all places

 

[SweetiePuff]

I see a lot of people on the forum bemoan working on mturk... calling it a dead end road in their life and such... but honestly for me it's been a road to freedom. I started turking just after I got out of the hospital... I knew I wanted to be a pro photographer but I had no equipment, while I was in the hospital everything I owned was in storage and eventually I wasn't able to pay it so I lost pretty much everything. I turked really heavily (sometimes as much as 80-100 hours in a single week ) and ran a small town computer repair business until I got enough saved up to buy some really basic camera equipment. Then I shut the computer biz down, moved to a more metropolitan area with my gf and started the photog business up. I knew from my research that most small businesses take about 5 years to start actually turning a profit... so I knew I had to really hone my turking to a fine edge so that it could support me and the photog biz expenses over an extended period of time.

Honestly... turking isn't all that fun, but it definitely is what you make of it.

 

[Vanyanka]

waiting for the work talk to finish and the fun to begin

I just ordered pizza and cracked open some white wine.

@electrolyte, if you're not out playing, come play with me!

 

[RaffRiffofTurk]

And now for my uninspiring story of finding Mturk that no one asked for. I am a college student and there is a student magazine that ran an article on ways to make money on the side while going to school full time. It had such prescient suggestions as selling plasma, selling other bodily fluids, Mturk, Prolific Academy, and Swagbucks. Given my bodily fluids explode on contact without the password that was out so I tried the survey sites. After settling in with Turk and Prolific I looked around for forums to get HITs on. I found this other place that I no longer frequent which subsequently lead me here out of solidarity with the looney tunes I liked from the other place who decided to make their own forum with hookers and blackjack. Aaaand here we are. Made for TV movie material am I right?

 

[Drwho10]

I just ordered pizza and cracked open some white wine.

@electrolyte, if you're not out playing, come play with me!

finally some fun

 

[Vanyanka]

I see a lot of people on the forum bemoan working on mturk... calling it a dead end road in their life and such... but honestly for me it's been a road to freedom. I started turking just after I got out of the hospital... I knew I wanted to be a pro photographer but I had no equipment, while I was in the hospital everything I owned was in storage and eventually I wasn't able to pay it so I lost pretty much everything. I turked really heavily (sometimes as much as 80-100 hours in a single week ) and ran a small town computer repair business until I got enough saved up to buy some really basic camera equipment. Then I shut the computer biz down, moved to a more metropolitan area with my gf and started the photog business up. I knew from my research that most small businesses take about 5 years to start actually turning a profit... so I knew I had to really hone my turking to a fine edge so that it could support me and the photog biz expenses over an extended period of time.

Honestly... turking isn't all that fun, but it definitely is what you make of it.

Thank you for that. Mturk can be so discouraging and tedious sometimes but it's gotten me through some rough patches. It's inspiring that you are able to use turking as a means to doing something you love.

 

[Blue]

Interesting story. On the turking side of things - basically you're saying that because you have knowledge of computers you are able to make your own scripts that allow you to make $100+ a day ?

Honestly... my sense of creativity and my ability to make abstract connections have probably made me more money than my knowledge of computers. It does take some basic knowledge in the theory of programming and logic like I mentioned earlier... but being able to look at a hit and figure out novel ways to make the work more efficent and less time consuming is worth more than being really good at programming.

 

[Drwho10]

Honestly... my sense of creativity and my ability to make abstract connections have probably made me more money than my knowledge of computers. It does take some basic knowledge in the theory of programming and logic like I mentioned earlier... but being able to look at a hit and figure out novel ways to make the work more efficent and less time consuming is worth more than being really good at programming.

I bet you would have made a pretty good engineer. Props to making your own business though very respectable :thumbup:

 

[Vanyanka]

Honestly... my sense of creativity and my ability to make abstract connections have probably made me more money than my knowledge of computers. It does take some basic knowledge in the theory of programming and logic like I mentioned earlier... but being able to look at a hit and figure out novel ways to make the work more efficent and less time consuming is worth more than being really good at programming.

This also makes me happy. My knowledge of computers (compared to most of you people) is mediocre. But I think I'm pretty damn good at abstract though and making connections.

 

[Jharkan]

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[Blue]

I bet you would have made a pretty good engineer. Props to making your own business though very respectable :thumbup:

I was a field service engineer specializing in laboratory automations before the cancer. I dealt mostly with liquid handlers, automated extract storage systems, manipulation arms, and the like.