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357 stories, 2009 to 2014
February 2014
- I went on a picnic to Satapada with my friends
- When I was an unbeliever
- Wandering in the desert
- Three years back I was so eager to find out another source of income
- This is a chance given to me to express my feelings and gratitude.
- MY PHOBIA BEING REALISED
- My Mturk journey
- I was born the eldest daughter to educated parents
- I brought one shirt to my husband and toy kit to my kid
- I believe it was exactly 48 days ago
- I am lucky
- I am a natural tomboy
- I am a girl name reshma
- How I Bought My First Bike
- FOR MY DREAM VINTAGE ROYAL ENFIELD
- Confidence gains success
- Early in life I trained such skills as soccer
- A digital HIT chess player trying to make the most of his time
- It all happened in the year 2000 October night
- The people moved around like zombies
- It took a while to realize, but then again finding it was worth the wait
- I was born and raised in southern Wisconsin
- I came to Mechanical Turk to indulge a hobby
- After I got laid off, I struggled to figure out what to do with myself
- I grew up in South Florida
- It was four years ago when the economic crisis hit
- My story is about the first SF 49ers game i ever attended
- It was a Saturday, I am sure of that
- I’ve lived a full life at a young age
- I think I’m doing a damn great job
- I lived in over 3 cities throughout childhood
- I grew up in new york city in a middle class neighborhood
- I am a 21 year old college male struggling with grades and perception
- Day of my wedding
- At the end of last month, after scaling Mount Everest
March 2011
- My most memerable moment on Mechanical Turk is when I was able to buy my son a acoustic guitar
- My husband got a cute Pit Bull puppy for his 65th birthday
- I started doing Mturk a couple of years ago
- One of my office collegaues has been working in Mturk for the past 18 months
September 2009
- It’s simply a relaxing yet productive activity
- By May of next year I will be $120,000 in debt
- This is the memior of a klutz
- I want to get my wife the CD she has been looking for
- Show Me The Way To Go Home
- Children have this innocence that we can only dream of
- I’m a country girl, born in michigan
- I am an insomniac
- Say it with me: “Amazon Mechanical Turk”
- Are the good old days on the Turk coming to an end?
- I remember the very first HIT
- Last friday I went with my father and his ex-girlfriend to the sea
- One actually asked me whether I enjoyed taking online polls
- My husband and I don’t have as many marital rights as heterosexuals do
- I am more interested in growing food hydroponically and solar panels and windmills
August 2009
- Tucked away for a rainy day
- I do this while I’m drinking and smoking and in my underwear
- Why settle for a 3.5 GPA when I could get a 4.0
- I like to ask questions about quantum physics
- The funny thing is I still cry on Palm Sunday
- The Birth of my Second Daughter
- We both ditched work the week of Mothers day
- David ran onto the stage the arena filled with screaming crying girls
- I find that I am able to weed out the information that I do not need
- There were eight or so object images
- I find myself doing anything I can to make money
- I did this HIT even though it is late
- In a few months, I’ll burn up again
- We all count and should stand together to accoomplish this!
- My wife and I are always on the lookout for innovative ways to make money
- Before MTurk, I spent my computer time playing solitaire
- I love seeing new places and broadening my horizons
- Writing a memoir, now there is an interesting task
- I am a 70-year-old retired public relations executive
- My husband can’t complain that I am wasting my time
- I might be able to trade my effort for a Kindle in about four thousand years
- Self motivated people that want to enrich them selves
- John was “over-the-top” nice
- I began my senior year a wife
- Princess was my beautiful companionship
- I felt like a CIA spy
- 20 dollar HIT in 15 minutes
- I am a 68 year old female who was born in the state of Georgia
- A city that wants to eat them alive, chew them up, and spit them out
- A successful Manager at a Fortune 500 Company
- Mission Impossible episodes captivate the young ones
- Full time boat living
- Starving student
- Your legs are fat and you need to do something about it
- Life at Mturk
- I’ve earned $31.22 in 2 weeks
- I’m quite human
- Thousands of students tests
- What about a cat?
- I had all three children within the span of one year
- Beer and a burger
- I was reading my brother in laws blog
- I still continue to do Mturk
- I get paid to do something
- I am $90,000 in school loans
- I am doing my part to prevent robots from taking over
- I used to obsess over the highest score
July 2009
- A woman’s life is defined by fantasy and sadness
- It prickles her palms and fingers
- The income is a nice supplement to my savings
- I came to America in 1997 from Europe
- Wow..This is a pretty cluttered website, where do i even sign up!?
- Sounds great right? Wrong
- I am currently saving for my other daughter’s birthday gift
- I had enough money saved for my future and to spend with my friends too
- You see another penny, another block away, and decide to walk again
- I can prove them wrong!
- A story that has already been written by you, enacted by you, lived by you
- And now for another horrible week in the life of… Me
- I particularly like the academic psychology studies
- I feel happy and proud to be a mechanical turkist
- Sometimes our “yard” is the ocean
- I will never forget the day that changed my life
- I’m spiritually joined with a sexy mechanic
- I consider myself to be a Google expert
- I hope to God I am accepted
- i can make cash!
- I am a housewife
- I love to work this hit
- I was very hesitant at first
- It was the summer of 1976
- They say I have Google-fu
- I was able to order the Nintendo DS
- That’s $1,200.00 in my pocket
- I payed $10 to activate my account
- Day and Night Writer
- Nursing my newborn son
- Although “extra” is a fantasy right now
- As a waitress, I don’t always make the money I need
- I am loving every minute
- The laziest guy in the world
- This is where the satisfaction of Turking comes in
- My mother was the rock that was holding me and my siblings together
- Good jobs, decent kids, nice pets
- I believe that the best and most important quality in anyone is truth and honesty
- I was born here, I grew up here
- We’re able to work together because I speak pretty good Spanish
- I’m a poor college student
- I was born and bought up in Ooty
- These gap in employment starts to wear on me
- I’m a 50 year old man
- I have been a Mechanical Turk for two months
- I was always the tallest, chubbiest, and ugliest
- I am supporting a family on a single income
- I am an Indian
- Next month I resign my job
- The Sex Worker
- I’ve been Turking for two years now in my spare time
- NOT GREAT, BUT GOOD
- I found out my niece will be getting married over in Hawaii
- Reluctant housewife
- Turking has even helped me to better my skills in writing
- I currently have two part-time jobs, but full-time employment is elusive
- I am New Jersey, North Carolina, and New York
- I think I hear my real life calling, so I better get back to it...
- After the war ended what affected me more was all the Iraqis I was in part responsible for killing
- Ok, wait my mother talking to me is boring
June 2009
- I am a Mechanical Turk and I LOVE it!
- First born
- I was in real trouble now
- I am a college student who recently found Mechanical Turk
- He said if i won’t give a money the beggar will become a thief
- At age 12 I began to doubt my faith
- i am just scarred about doing this job first
- Obviously, I rock the socks
- That fateful day when I found Amazon Mechanical Turk was the best day ever
- Don’t quit your day job
- I have started getting a little pudgy around the mid section, which isn’t great
- You give me 250 words to share my story and pay me .20 cents for it
- The 21st century of glowing rectangles
- Beggar in Spain
- I look forward to seeing what appears next on my hit list
- Everything was going very well
- Want to know who I am? Yeah, sometimes so do I
- I am one of fourteen, but we are fourteen in a million
- Exactly 8 weeks ago, my best friend and i, kissed
- Or maybe you can give your little boy a little bonus
- I have travelled around the world
- I am an old woman now
- My friend told me about Mechanical Turk about 5 years ago
- I am from turkey
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- I have always been a bit of an insomniac
- I like to find new ways to make money
- I’d never won a fight in my life
- He will come and visit me here in the Philippines
- Due to the current global recession, I lost my job last year
- Cadence stared out the window of the New Hampshire diner
- Trying to scrape up a little cash
- Your Anonymous Turk in L.A.
- There has been a report about a black man carrying a gun
- I am working on Amazon Turk to make extra money
- My collage days
- He was invisible to the world
- I decided I would confront her, and I met her with a knife
- Have kids, you’ll love having a family, everything will be fine
- My English is quite limited
- People wrote Greasemonkey scripts for Firefox
- I went on to study under an artist
- We live in a world where people are worthless and worth less everyday
- I know my life is good, just wish I wasn’t so broke after studying my ass off my whole life
- I once had a dream of taking off from everything
- I will never forget my time spent there
- God has guided me the whole way
- I’m Just A Girl
- With an MBA program I expect to emerge with greater understanding of business
- My mom’s actually the one who introduced me to MTurk, so now it’s another thing we can bond over
- I made the best of a bad situation
- I went to college in Australia and I learnt that I was ‘diaspora’
- AH, THE TURKS
- After a lot of false starts I taught my self to knit
- I’m a 28 year old housewife gone mad
- David knew that there had to be a rock
- I am 48 and my 11th grandchild will be born next month
- History of the Family
- The time came when I had to tell people at school about my immigration
- life is an imagination
- I am a stranger in a strange land, an interloper, a conquistador of pennies for precious live-minutes
- Hi this is Mr.X
- I told myself that this time I’m not going back
- i have many good friend in my life so i proud of my life
- I used to see the man with a leg crippled
- I was having an uneventful weekend
- PhD gangster
- The soil there was rich
- September 11
- Life was fun
- I didn’t know what to do, so I robbed a house
- I find myself in my late 40’s in front of a keyboard
- During the spring of 2008, I got my last first kiss
- We had a real good time singing, dancing and drinking
- I can’t sleep
- I have taken a whole new view on life
- We’ve had medical problems in the family
- I am a college student that has quickly racked up about $60,000 of debt
- Nothing makes me laugh harder than a fart or poop joke
- I’ve loved Ancient Rome…pretty much since I could read
- Two very important discoveries
- I can high kick this machine
- My story isn’t really written yet
- The day I was born, I was eight years late
- I hade sex was when I was 12 years old back in January
- I remember the hot summer of 1976
- Digital camera that will cost many pennies, here I come!
- My friend said everything but i am not impressed
- My low paying great job
- This is perfect
- My name is “Heidi”
- Bob was very surprised to find his smelly little dog
- Being with your loved ones is probably the best and free therapy
- My addiction started in an interesting way
- Mini luxury
- A friend first told me about Amazon Mechanical Turk
- I am now about halfway to a Nintendo Wii after only a week of working
- The regular teachers are constantly getting burnt out and taking sick days
- My daughter and I learned about Mechanical Turk the same day
- The economy is in the dumps
- I had trusted my friend so much
- There is a world of opportunity set here
- I hunkered down and tried to learn how to work this system.
- I love MTurk!
- I am still searching for that get rich quick scheme
- Anything is possible
- I might be the world’s next Nora Roberts.
- When I was eight years old there was a party for my cousin
- The Hustle.
- Ms. Downsized, Professional Turker
- I never really liked high school when I was a teenager.
- Recent Life
- Using mturk, I’m managed to make some ends meet and pay for a meal or two.
- I made over $100
- I’ve been working on Mturk for a little over a year and I’ve made over $2000.
- My life is mine and I own it!
- I have a master’s degree.
- Something that pays decent seems as rare as a unicorn.
- I am a Turker, hear me roar.
- My girlfriend and I talk daily about funny or odd jobs that we’ve found
- How many synonyms can you name for the word “broke”?
- mturk is god for me and my family.
- When I was seven my parents forgot about my birthday
- I hope you people reading this learn something and get aspiration from this and do something for mother nature.
- The deal: we’d live here for a year while he finished school, and then we’d return to New York
- The Grey Haired Grandma Turker
- I was first quite skeptical about MTurk because it seemed like a “get rich fast” sort of scheme.
- I am a 39 year old woman with 3 boys
- I found out about Mturk, last year at a time when i was looking for a new job.
- Brotherly love.
- I may very well be one of the busiest people I know that doesn’t have children.
- I’ve completed over 24 thousand HITs on Mturk
- I started using Mechanical Turk when I was separated from my family for training
- “Quickest ways to make money.”
- I just can’t give up now.
- Working as a website administrator might sound exciting
- Finding out your work has been rejected is quite frustrating, but not as bad as filling out a questionnaire that takes 20 minutes only to find out it won’t submit….FML
- I join the Mechanical Turk 4 month’s ago.
- I learned about Mechanical Turk accidentally
- I am the youngest one in my family.
- At first I didn’t think it was real, but you actually get paid for your articles.
- I like to eat a lot and play video games.
- “I’m bored, I’m bored, I’m bored.”
- I am an enthusiastic youth, searching for online jobs
- I am a homemaker right now and got married a couple of months back.
- I joined Mechanical Turk back in 2008
- It’s so hard to make money on mechanical turk these days, sadly.
- It all started about 15 months ago, when I stumbled across the mTurk concept by accident.
- Ok, I began working as a Mechanical Turk because I need money!
- I joined Mechanical Turk two weeks back and have already earned a good amount of money.
- Six months and still no work.
- Working on Mechanical Turk has been very beneficial.
- Three years ago I read an article in The Economist about Mechanical Turk
- I have sung into the phone
- After the economic meltdown
- My Name is Amanda and I am a stay at home mom.
- I’m in the midst of uncertainty with my job and my life
- I am a very lonely person.
- A month ago, I had a job that was not great, but it paid the bills.
- I’m an American, but I live in China, teaching English.
- I currently just graduated college with a music education degree.
- Its been twenty years since I experienced the greatest shock of my life.
- It is 2 am.
- Obsessed with Mechanical Turk
- I’m a college student, somewhere in the sweaty palm of Michigan
- I think that my story is similar to a lot of different turkers.
- I am not poor.
- I am a trailing spouse, the wife of someone posted outside the United States
- I found out about Mechanical Turk through an article
- Pennies and Nickels and Dimes, Oh My!
- Memoir of a Middle-Aged Turker Lady
- Sixty.
- College is a busy time
- I’ve been a bit of a Mechanical Turk junkie
- I am a poor college student and a mechanical turk.
- I Just Lost My Job
- Notes to Self on Being a Mechanical Turk Click. Click. Click.
- I dawdle on the computer when I’m not doing other things
- I was so excited to start working with mechanical turk
- I was born in 1985 in augusta ga.
- Mechanical Turk is certainly not a means of supporting ones self
- I enjoy using Mturk for various reasons.
- Silence.
- I really enjoy doing the hits on Mechanical Turk.
- I’ve been unemployed since February 2009
- I read about Mechanical Turk in a Wall Street Journal article
- Amazon Mechanical Turk has been a real blessing to my husband and I.
- The Mechanical Turk Newbie.
- I am a Mechanical Turk. Not a turkey
- My name is #$#%@&^, and I am a mechanical turk.
- I am a mechanical turk, but I’m really a human.
- I was told about MTurk right after being diagnosed with cancer.
- I’ve been unemployed since November 2008.
- I am a Mechanical Turk. But that is not all that I am.
- I am a Mechanical Turk
- What’s the Story?