You may have seen my picture in my certain adult chat rooms or may have heard about me from your male friends who are or were my clients. I hope that they have good reviews about their experience with me.I am a personal services provider or a PSP. I make a living catering to the sexual needs of men. If I sound unapologetic about my profession, that’s because I am. I make good money doing what I do. I charge about P2,500 for three hours and can make as much as P50,000 a month. Other PSPs charge a lot more than that, but I know that I can get more clients with my pricing— which is affordable but not cheap. I would never price my services on the cheap side. I like what I do. Really. I like having sex with different men. I was doing it even before I made it my full time profession, though getting into this line of work did happened by accident. I was already active in adult chat rooms meeting up potential sex dates. We would eyeball and if things went well, would have sex. It was a simple arrangement and I enjoyed the random sex with the stranger. There was always the excitement and the “all-out-aim-to-please-performance” of a first encounter. Once, one of the guys that I eyeballed was exceptionally pleased and kept telling me how satisfied he was. As we were about to part ways, he kissed me, said thanks and slipped some money in my pocket. I was surprised, but was even more surprised when I got home and saw that he gave me P5,000. That’s when I started thinking about how to turn this hobby of mine into a business. I posted an ad for my services in the chat rooms, using my real picture. Some PSPs don’t post their real picture and lie about their appearance. I don’t. I am completely upfront about being on the short and chubby side and don’t pretend otherwise. I know that I can carry a conversation because I finished college and can speak well as a result of my training in a call center and I use this to my utmost advantage. I capitalize on this and, to men, I think it more than makes up for my not being thin and petite. Yes, most of my clients, especially the regular ones, like and look for conversation. They don’t want to just have sex, which would be just like going to a prostitute. They want to talk and someone to talk to. Some of them even ask for what is known in PSP parlance as the girlfriend experience or GFE. So when we are together, it’s like we are a couple. We have sex, cuddle and talk. Sometimes they even want to watch a movie or have dinner first. Frankly, I’d rather get down to business. That’s where we’re going to end up anyway, but as long as they know that my three-hour meter is ticking as soon as we are together, no matter what we do, then I’m fine. It can get dangerous sometimes. I have been stalked by some clients and there is always the danger of getting attached with the regulars. But I’m always very conscious of that—getting attached, I mean. I don’t want to limit myself to just one client—that would mean the end of my business and a loss of earning potential. I gave up my regular day job precisely because I made more money being a PSP, I don’t want to give that up for a man or a boyfriend. I also insist on using protection at all times, don’t allow threesomes or anal sex. Most of my clients don’t mind. Men are easier to please than women think. Most of them just want a good blowjob because their girlfriends or wives either don’t know how or don’t want to give one. I wonder about women like that sometimes. If they only knew the power of a real good blowjob. Maybe I’ll retire soon, maybe I won’t. It’s really hard to say that I’ll just quit. I’ve been doing this for three years now and the steady income is hard to give up. What I really want to do is breed dogs. I’ve already started doing that. One of my clients gave me seed money to start and I’ve gotten a few pups and kennels. May be if this other business takes off then, I can give up being a PSP. But if I get a call from a new client or a regular, it’ll be hard to say no. So who knows?

I am a Mechanical Turker! I’ve been Turking for two years now in my spare time, and I have to say, it’s great! I have been able to earn enough money on the side to pay for a trip to Scotland for me and my wife. I had enough money saved up for air fare and train rides and a basic hotel, but because I had earned money through Mturk, I was able to upgrade our hotel and was able to enjoy some classy dinners out while in Edinburgh. I first read about Mturk in The New York Times, and thought I would check it out and see what all the fuss about it was. I was hooked right from the start! I started with fairly simple tasks and as my confidence grew, I started accepting more involved HITS. I’m not saying you will ever get rich by doing HITS, but it’s a great way to spend spare time (instead of watching TV or mindlessly surfing the web), and earn some extra pocket money while doing it. I hope to go to Venice in two years and hope that I will be able to earn some extra money for a hotel upgrade and some souvenirs for my friends and family. If it wasn’t for Mturk I would probably have to stay at a pretty basic hotel and be careful that I dined in inexpensive restaurants. There have been times when I’ve been a little low on cash and have used my earnings to pay my phone bill or a small credit card bill so I don’t carry a balance. That’s what I love about Mturk!

MY EXPERIENCE WITH BEING A MECHANICAL TURK WAS GOOD. NOT GREAT, BUT GOOD. THE MONEY THAT I MADE DEFINITELY HAS KEPT ME AFLOAT IN SOME VERY HARD TIMES. I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL FOR THIS TYPE OF WORK AROUND, TO BE ABLE TO HAVE ACCESS 24/7. ALTHOUGH SOME OFF THE HITS COME OFF AS BEING A IT RIDICULOUS AND DON’T PAY MUCH MONEY, IT’S BETTER THAN NOT MAKING ANY MONEY AT ALL.YEAH, IT DOES TAKE A WHILE TO ACCUMULATE MONEY, BUT THIS ACTUALLY WORKS. DEFINITELY HAVE TOO BE DEDICATED AND HAVE A WILLING AND WANTING SPIRIT.I WOOLDN’ GIVE THIS UP FOR ANYTHING. IVE HAD SEVERAL FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS AS WELL JOIN THE TEAM AND ARE BEGINNING TO GET THE HANG OF IT AS WELL AT FIRST THEY WERE ALL VERY DISCOURAGED BECAUSE OF THE PAY, BUT NOW THAT KNOW HOW TO MANEUVER THE SITE AND FIND THE HITS THAT THEY ARE COMFORATABLE WITH, THEY ARE PLEASES AND OFTEN THANK ME. IF U KNOW OF ANYONE WHO IS BETWEEN JOBS OR IS LOOKING FOR EXTRA INCOME, BY ALL MEANS TELL THEM ABOUT M-TURK.

I got started turking here recently when I found out my niece will be getting married over in Hawaii. What I figured I would do is to do this thing for the next two years. She will be getting married in two years. I figured that if I did this part time I could actually make enough to get over there and to enjoy myself. I have figured that I would need to do about $3.00 worth a day to fulfill this in due time. I have really enjoyed it a lot it has opened up a lot of avenues in the past. I keep telling everyone that I am literally saving pennies up to go to Hawaii. They are not thinking that this work’s out. If and when you can get a few that pay something worthwhile it is worth the effort and time to do this job. I had heard about this from several sources of information and thought what the heck. I would love to give it a try. I gave it a try and I am gaining pennies and dimes each and every day. The longer I do this I know I am getting closer and closer to my goal in the future. There are day’s when I don’t feel like it. But I do it anyways. If I can keep the average at about $3.00 a day I am okay with that. Which really that doesn’t take that much time and effort to let that add up the way it does. Turking is a way to make some extra cash when I needed it the most.

The best term to describe me is ‘reluctant housewife’. I have the most amazing children and a husband who I usually think I don’t deserve. They all keep me busy definitely and on most occasions happy, or at least content. But, the one elusive thing in my life lately is accomplishment and, more importantly, being paid for something I have accomplished. Mechanical Turk offers me that outlet. I can take a few minutes, or maybe even an hour, and work on HITs. Sure, the pay isn’t astronomical, but it’s something I can say I did and I earned. My life is an eccletic one. I was a soldier and traveled extensively in Europe. I survived retail work and all of its soul sucking days. I assembled alarm systems in a factory and even made it through a summer of really bad waitressing. I have lived in at least five different states and survived hurricanes and blizzards, but all of that is now my past. Life is more stable now and though I appreciate the monotony sometimes, it can also become so boring I don’t want to get out of bed. But I do. I try to remember all that I’ve done. I finished a college degree, something that took almost ten years, and found a whole new layer of myself in literature and creative writing. I had my last two children late in life and now I get another chance to experience youth through them. Gray hair is,after all, just a part of the outer picture of a person and doesn’t limit where your mind can take you. The body may not be able to keep up as well as it used to, but that’s ok. I have lived in small towns and large cities, on this side of the pond and across it, but all that life experience is wasted if you never get a chance to share it. So, for me right now, working online is an outlet. I can work on HITs while I navigate this sometimes boring world of the housewife and even make a little money at the same time.

Being a busy physiotherapist, I never had any time to spare a year ago, but then things changed when I had to migrate just for my partner, and had enough time to spare during weekdays till my partner returned from work. After I heard from one of my IT friends about turking, I got interested to it and found mechanical turk. I found it interesting, because it dint have anything much to do with IT.I love writing and article writing about unusual topics interested me. From then on I used to spend a couple of hours after my work whenever I get time. I never mind the reward amount usually, as far as the article is interesting so that I can learn new things, but was surprised to find it was enough for me to spend few dollars extra while shopping for groceries every week. Though not a big deal, I love it because it gives me a sense of satisfaction, especially for the writer part of me. When I said about this to my partner, she would not believe and was surprised ,of course she did not know much about the writer part of me and when I told her, she voluntarily helps me in editing few things if I don’t have time. Turking has even helped me to better my skills in writing, analysing and expressing it in the right way. The articles which I have contributed so far, ranges from repairing a pen to a research article about osteoporosis. In short, it is different, it is amazing and it is worth a try.

One day, after another money argument with my fiance (I currently have two part-time jobs, but full-time employment is elusive), I decided to do something about it. So, like any other computer-literate twenty-something, I ran a Google search, and worked my way through a “25 Unusual Ways to Make Quick Money” blog. Yard sale? We already sold all our non-essential stuff. Part-time job? Check. Egg donation? Not on your life. Besides, we’re Catholic. We may not be good Catholics, but we’re not that far gone. I seriously considered plasma donation, and even went as far as to call our local company, but that seemed a little too desperate (and fiance freaked). Mechanical turking? What is that? Hey, I could do this! And that was that … I started turking. My very first job was a little odd, as I was supposed to decide how soft porn images made me feel. But I got into the swing of things. Now, every night while we watch TV, I turk during commercials. I’ve transcribed elementary children’s scrawl, written articles about wolf evolution, rated bumper sticker phrases, and submitted travel tips for Cancun (even though I’ve never been there–shh, don’t tell.) I’m not exactly rolling in cash, but I’ve made enough money to buy a few things I’d been wanting but couldn’t rationalize paying for out of our regular income. Some task are actually pretty fun, and it’s money I couldn’t make any other way. I am a Mechanical Turk! Yay!

I am a girl I am a woman I am an adult? I am 5'5’’ I am small I am my freckles I am not funny I am happy I am optimistic I am lonely I am part of a huge family I am my father’s daughter I am self conscious I am New Jersey, North Carolina, and New York I am Dublin and Barcelona I am working I am playing I am a College Graduate! I am looking for a job in this terrible economy I am sad I am looking for love I am looking for fun I am confused I am the person my friends see me as I am worth it I am the girl who got car sick on every bus ride and long trip I am a big and little sister I am ready to move forward I am afraid I am self-confident I am understanding I am the 6 year old who broke her collar bone in the summer I am the 18 year old who lost her virginity I am always falling in love (even when I know it’s wrong) I am a rape victim I am strong I am weak I am keeping everything in perspective I am supported I am a hard worker I am lazy I am in control of my own destiny I am looking I am everything I want to be I am a person who desires more I am what you think about me I am

Another day on the Turk. It seems like its getting harder to get any hits. I guess with the economy being what it is, more and more people are scrapping for even the smallest pieces of change. So, I answer a couple of questions, screen a few images, and take a few polls. Still, I cant seem to get to my quota for the day. Will my obsession have to go unfilled today, or will I have to spend the entire day trying? Wait! There’s a new hit looking up record release dates at five cents a pop. Maybe if I can get a few of those, I can get on with my life for the rest of the day. Mostly Latin music, with a couple of old country hits. I’m getting bored pretty quickly. It looks like its going to be a long day after all. Just as I’m about to give up hope, there’s a hit that asks me to tell my story. Seems kind of crazy to me, after all if I had an interesting story to tell I’d probably not be wasting my life turking for peanuts. Nonetheless, I give it a shot, hoping that maybe someone will find this little glimpse of the turking world to be some interest. I think I hear my real life calling, so I better get back to it….

Ordinance and went to work in brigades logistics shop, S-4, for the rest of my time in the Army. We went to Iraq in 2003 and I was working both in S-4 and as a battle captain in the TOC, operations center supervisor. What affected me the most at the time were our soldiers dying on the radio. I would be taking with a unit after the where attacked, coordinating medical support and evacuation, then to be told to turn the Blackhawk around because it was no longer needed. After the war ended what affected me more was all the Iraqis I was in part responsible for killing. It was all legal and nothing shady put still the thought of it… I left the Army and soon after my wife left me. Things are better now. I have remarried and life is good.