I heard about Mechanical Turk through one of my “Mommy” message boards. There was a thread posted about work-from-home opportunities, and someone was derisively talking about Mechanical Turk and how there was no possible way to make money on it. I am a natural skeptic, and honestly, if someone speaks poorly of something, it only makes me want to check it out more. I visited Mechanical Turk, and was intrigued enough to sign up and give it a shot. I noticed that many of the tasks only paid pennies, but that there were also many other opportunities that paid more, but required more effort. I have participated in both types of HIT’s, and found myself enjoying the tasks and different things I was asked to do. I never expected to like Mechanical Turk so much based on the negative things some other people were saying, but I am glad I decided to form my own opinion and check it out for myself, so I can prove them wrong!

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Choose out of any of the following domains of life-facets that your story naturally fits in and submit it there by clicking on its link here:No more now! We have gone too occupied with our families to sense each other without any material concern between the two of us. Family We have turned insensitive. You might try to refute me here. You could say you are very sensitive for your wife/husband or your parents, your siblings or your kids - in short, for your relationships; but the two sensitivities are very different from each other. Rather they are opposite to each other. My sensitivity for my family is emotional in nature. I am bothered about my family members. I am worried about them. I feel anxious when something wrong happens to anyone of them. I feel a sense of duty toward them. In fact, I extend my identity into as well as onto them. The two merge into one.I propose replacing family with community - the neighborhood community having a professionally run community kitchen, which will turn our dining experience tastier, cheaper, more nutritious as well as more colorful as community dining is certainly going to be a more interactive incident than only the same two or three people eating together everyday. Family The more, the merrier! The way to the heart always passes through the stomach! The basic building block of the society is going to be the individual as such, and not family any more. Won’t this new arrangement open new vistas as far as interaction between the community members is concerned? Won’t it give a new colorful dimension to our social life - much more than our family life? Family Won’t this community life turn into an entertaining club all through our mornings and all through our evenings - the club of interaction, the club of knowledge acting as a full-fledged school for our kids as well, the club of all kinds of sports for us as well as for our kids, the club of cultural amalgamation, the club of arts and crafts, and the club of music and dance? We together can afford much bigger and much better space to live a better quality of life than we individually, or with family, can! Something like a five-star hotel where everyone has her/his private corner in one of the suites allotted to her/him - it needs more creativity than it needs money! And the membership of the community is not going to be a fixed one for life, like in a family it is; it would keep changing with a transfer of a member’s job leaving the area or an establishment of a new business by a new prospective member coming to the area. New faces, keeping it fresh and green! Together we can, divided we can’t! Of course, together we stand; divided we fall. Do you feel things should change in life, on earth? If yes, why sit passive? Let’s be in the active vanguard.

And now for another horrible week in the life of… Me. You can call me Rick. I am a college student whose life is not going as planned or even nearly as desired. I am struggling to keep in touch with my friends from high school but it is very difficult. Many of them are going out and finding new friends from their new schools. Me, on the other hand, have failed classes and am becoming more anti-social by the minute. I was arrested a few months back and am still dealing with court costs and trying to erase the incident from my record. I have about 3,000 dollars that I need to pay off in a relatively short amount of time. To make things worse, I am starting a new job that requires training, but the training is only twice a week. No money is flowing in and the bills are piling up. I also am beginning to gain weight rapidly, I think it’s because I am shutting out to the world and living life in my 14 by 10 foot room. I would like to take more initiative in my life, but feel like I do not get as much support as I should be from those who truly matter. I am debating whether or not to continue going to school, or if I should stay in school, to continue going to the university where I am flunking, or to a community college. I hope life is going better for those who read this. Until next time…

I’ve been a turker for the past few months, since I read about it in a magazine. For years, I’ve been looking for something I could do while I was at work to earn a little more money in my down time. And I seem to always have a lot of down time (I’m too efficient for my own good). Of course this ends up being practically just pennies an hour, but it’s better than nothing. I’ve made over $100 so far, which is pretty cool. I’m going on vacation next week so maybe I’ll use my little bit of extra cash to do something fun I wouldn’t have normally. Most of my working life I’ve been in market research, and I really enjoy seeing other people’s surveys. So, a lot of what I do on mTurk is fill out surveys. I particularly like the academic psychology studies, since I studied psychology in college and I’m still curious to see what people are doing research on these days. Some of the other tasks I do are the ones where I have to look things up on the Internet–that’s one of my strengths and it helps hone my online research skills too. I also like some of the writing tasks, since I don’t get to do much writing in my current job. I would recommend mechanical turk to a friend, but not to someone who really needs extra money fast. In the US at least, I know there are more productive ways of spending time to earn some extra money. I think it’s best for someone who’s a little bored and has some extra time on their hands.

I am a engineer and Mechanical Turker. I feel happy and proud to be a mechanical turkist. I am a homemaker. I am doing this job in my spare time and use money for my use. It is an excellent site for homemaker to make the time useful. Previously i worked in international software company in mainframe domain with very high salary, good infrastructure and lot of friends . But after i got married i am not able to continue my job because of lot commitments in my family. By god grace at that time I heard about turking through my friend .I started turking only few months before. It will be interesting and make me to work at my convenient time. Now i am preferring about this site to my friends also. I am learning new things day by day.All tasks are really excellent, exciting and challenging especially artice writing, finding email addresses, surveys etc.. Am using my knowledge and professional experience in this site and getting sufficient reward for my task.Really thanks to the mechanical turkers team for helping people to work from home at convenient time.

Let’s see…..what is my story? I’m a nomad. I live fulltime in an RV and access the internet with a mobile satellite internet connection powered by solar photovoltaic panels. So sometimes I do my Mechanical Turk work from California, and sometimes from Florida and all points in between, sometimes from a truck stop on the Interstate and sometimes from a wilderness location in one of our country’s beautiful National Forests. It’s an interesting life, and a simple one, as living in a small space like an RV doesn’t allow you to accumulate much in the way of consumer goods. My husband and I have lived this way, with no fixed home base for more than fifteen years. I wonder sometimes if other nomads do this work…..I’ve never encountered one. It used to be a lot harder to stay connected while on the road. Before cell phones, we would stop somewhere once or twice a week and call a relative collect to make sure all was well with the family. Now, today, they can email us, call us on our cell phone, and we can be in as close a contact with friends and family as if we lived in a suburban house. We have all the comforts of home in our little condo on wheels, but our “yard” is really, really big. Sometimes our “yard” is the ocean, and sometimes it’s the desert, and sometimes it’s just a truck stop parking lot, but wherever you go, there you are, and we find interesting things about every location in which we find ourselves. Best wishes to all the other Mechanical Turks out there!

I will never forget the day that changed my life. I was going to visit friends at college and the drive is about 75 minutes or so. I drove for about an hour and had about 15 minutes left to go when out of the blue I was hit by a drunk driver. I don’t remember any of the accident, but from what I was told the driver came into my lane like he was taking a turn and I t-boned him in the passenger side. 2 Life-Star helicopters were needed at the scene. Over 90 minutes after the accident he still had a BAC of .23! I went through 7 hours of surgery, 12 days in the hospital, 3 months out of work and 9 months of physical therapy. Talk about life changing. He had a suspended driver’s license, suspended insurance and no assets. He had a history of DUI issues before. He ended up getting 5 years, suspended after 2 with 3 years probation. He spent a year in jail, a year in a half way house. I got $20,000 from my insurance for uninsured motorist and $11,000 from him for out of pocket medical expenses, value of my car and lost wages at work. I am now a bartender, part-time, hoping to keep anybody else from having to go through the horrible experience that I had to go through. Needless to say I don’t drink and drive and think about this accident EVERY day. You should too.

Born in the northwest, I was always an independent, yet loving child. I enjoy bead work and crafting and always have. I paint on the weekends when I have the energy. I have one beautiful school age child and another on the way. I fight to have these children because I suffer with Hyperemesis during pregnancy. They become not just precious treasures but hard won precious treasures. My family is my life. I don’t have many friends as I want to spend all my extra time with my family. Some may say I have too many pets. “What’s too many?” I say. I have always enjoyed cars and all they entail. They are both a hobby and a passion. I have lusted after them since I was a young child. Someday I may be able to afford the most sought after ones. I’m spiritually joined with a sexy mechanic. We have lusty nights and fun days together hence the pregnancy. We don’t need a slip of paper to prove love and devotion, it just exists. We are well on the way to buying a new home. Our future has never been clearer. Maybe it should be a farm, with all the pets and all. Our path is clear, our future is bright. I believe in us, in our family. All families should have the pure love ours has. Thanks.

I just recently started working on Mechanical Turk. I have been enjoying myself so far, especially seeing the small amounts of change add up to real money. It is actually interesting and fun to look up some of the requested information. I consider myself to be a Google expert so it is not difficult to find the answers. Writing is not my strong suit but I am trying to get more comfortable writing so that I can make even more money on Mechanical Turk. The writing assignments seem to pay the most money and there are many of them to be found. I have been without a job for nearly a year and Mechanical Turk is helping me get through this difficult period of time. Mechanical Turk allows me to earn a bit of money and not be so hard on myself for being without a job for so long. This economy has been very difficult on me and my family. I am scrimping and saving every where I can, cutting coupons and shopping sales. Mechanical Turk is allowing me to actually make money. I do not plan on making a living off of this but it is something for now. I will probably continue to use Mechanical Turk once I get a job just to have a little bit of extra money on the side. Everyone needs more money than they have. Plus I enjoy doing the simple tasks while watching television or listening to music. I am very glad Mechanical Turk is here in my time of need.

My name is April. I am a 30-year-old woman. I have been with my boyfriend for eight years. We still are not married. We do not have wealthy families, or even middle class families. We are both hard workers who are just trying to get the rent paid. I have tried to get him to agree to go to the courthouse and just sign the papers. He is adamant about celebrating the occasion with friends and family and wants to be married by a preacher in a church. That costs money, lots more money than we have. Any extra money we ever have on hand is used for groceries or car repairs. I have been attending night school since 2007, working towards a Registered Nursing Degree. Next quarter I will finish the last of my pre-requisites. Getting into nursing school here in the south is almost impossible despite the shortage of nurses. You have to have a very high GPA and they prefer you to have clinical experience. You cannot get clinical experience without some kind of certificate, however. I have been working as a bookkeeper for the past three years during the day to get the bills paid. So, I haven’t had time to even do volunteer work. I hope to God I am accepted. I know if I work hard and be diligent, I will succeed. I have a 3.56 GPA right now and I have to hope that will be enough. I know I will make a wonderful, caring, effective nurse if only I can be given the chance to prove it.