My own experience with mechanical turk happens to be a lot like most other peoples’: I have recently been having issues with my usual stack of bills, and it has been digging deeper and deeper into my savings. As the months go by, I seem to receive more and more notifications that rates and fees are increasing, and I have been selling and pawning several of my personal items to compensate. Although I work a full-time job, it simply does not pay enough to cover my bills, gas, and groceries for a month, and I was starting to reach the end of my rope. One day, my girlfriend started to surf online to find solutions to my predicament - something to help stop the constant outflow of money. Somehow, she stumbled upon mechanical turk. We read how the website worked, then immediately set up an account and took turns pouring over the available HITs and filling out forms and applications. By devoting a few hours to it every day, I’ve been able to accrue enough cash to keep gas in my tank - and I’m thankful that it’s one less worry from my mind. Even if I manage to get a second job, or I get a raise or find better work, I’m more than likely going to keep on using mechanical turk, just to help pay for extra expenses, like entertainment and dining. In the end, I’m grateful to be able to use this website as a helping hand. My girlfriend and I talk daily about funny or odd jobs that we’ve found, or bounce ideas off of each other for anything that may require two minds to accomplish.

How many synonyms can you name for the word “broke”? Here are a few: unemployed; poor; desperate; discouraged. Yep. Being a displaced housewife after raising the kids is not financially healthy in this economy. Even when I worked at a bookstore (now closed), I didn’t quite make enough money to pay the bills. So, I started trying to make a little extra cash through MTurk. It was a great disappointment; it often pays tiny, tiny amounts of money for huge amounts of work, especially the transcribing. Finally I realized that as a job, MTurk is next to useless, time-consuming and practically non-paying. However, as a cynical hobby, it allows me to make a few cents while trying to figure out how much longer we have until third-world-country status hits us all. I laugh with my friends who play with MTurk about how “much” money we’ve earned any particular day. We’re all very careful not to download anything or to divulge personal information (although I have received emails from MTurk employers who were subsequently banned from MTurk). My respect for Amazon has diminished considerably since I’ve been working with MTurk, but I still buy books from Amazon. I now categorize Amazon with other large greedy corporations, but take my pennies anyway, because a few cents are better than none and as long as I don’t considerate this a viable source of income it is amusing. I do, however, think that Amazon could probably arrange to pay slightly more money to Turkers.

i am a young person,i completed teacher education.first i worked in school but i got very little salary, it is not enough for my life.so immediately i choose online work,i got some money. recently i registered in mturk and spend my time every day,i got lot money.now i very happy work with mturk and also my parents is very pleasure.and some person,staff give respect for me,before i work in school every did not give respect and don’t talk with me.but now all person call me and come to my house talk with me.so that my parents alliance for me,i am also like to marriage because i got good job.mturk is god for all person,i don’t forget in my life.now i don’t worry about anything if get or not teacher post.because i have good earn job and believable job.recently come my marriage i work after marriage with my wife.i tell work with mturk,and also i work in my computer.if i need buy another one computer for my wife work.now my brother work with it,and also he is get good response with mturk.his friends give respect to him and he is very happy with it.daily work with mturk my family have more happy.and my relation also give more respect to my family,because i work with mturk so all person give more respect.i thank to mturk,i bless with god.so mturk is god for me and my family.

When I was seven my parents forgot about my birthday because they were on a three-day cruise in the Caribbean. We didn’t have that much money, but my father won the cruise on a game show, so for him and my Mother it was really big deal. Looking back on it, I recognize how momentous the trip must have been, since neither of my parents had ever even been out of central Ohio, but as a seven year old boy alone with a babysitter on my birthday, it was pretty devastating. I assume my parents just forgot; the game show gave them tickets for a specific date and they had to go then, so when they accepted, the probably weren’t thinking about me. Nevertheless, I wanted to call them, ask them how could they do this to their only son, why had they forsaken me and that kind of thing, really ply the guilt, but that was in the days before cell phones, and there was no way of reaching them that I knew of. When I told the babysitter, a bored high school student with a blonde ponytail and a liking for gum, that my parents had forgotten my birthday, she didn’t believe me. She assumed that I just wanted attention, which I did, but I was telling the truth. When I showed her my birth certificate, which my parents kept in my dresser, she looked at me with shock first, then pity, and bought me a happy meal.

Hi I am mechanical student in famous university in Kerala , India . One our teacher came to our class and told about a science exibition in our city and all major universities are coming . So we were allow to participate in that and a topic was to be selected . So after along debate we decide to work on green earth and decided to make an electric car , with the help of our teacher we completed the project . Even though we got only 2nd prize many of the jury came and said it was the most innovative idea and good for nature we were happy that we could do something for nature . Then onwards our university in honour if our nature decided to organize green fest and many other universities were also invited for that . Then onwards evry year this green fest is being on and we students who won the prize is allowed to organize this programe . It is a great honour for us students even though we left university . I hope you people reading this learn something and get aspiration from this and do something for mother nature.

I had a pretty exciting life when I was younger— I went off to boarding school at 17, lived in Paris for a little while, and graduated from a fancy liberal arts college on the East Coast. But after my college graduation, I came here, to this small town in Ohio, to marry my boyfriend. The deal: we’d live here for a year while he finished school, and then we’d return to New York, where he’d attend seminary to become an Episcopal priest. Well, that year is up, and while it’s a relief that we’ll be leaving in a month, it’s been hard living here: my husband was laid off, and I’m a freelance writer, so we’ve been without insurance and living only on my tiny salary. Doing Mturk work has been helpful in plugging up the cracks in our financial situation, but it’s tough. We don’t buy much, and we make everything we can (detergent, cheese, beer, bread, etc.) in order to save money. But I can’t wait to get back to civilization so that I can find a steady job and see my friends again! It’ll be so wonderful to have new, exciting things to write about, and to get the heck out of this dull, stagnated place.

I stumbled across a link to Amazon Mechanical Turk in an email from a friend, he had forwarded a “How to Work From Your Sofa” article. The article included links to online job sites. I checked a few of them out, was not impressed, then opened AMT – I figured “what the heck, its through Amazon.” So I signed up and have been earning a minimum of $1.00 per day some days as much as $5.00. I work part time as a merchandiser for an energy drink company, it’s a mindless job and I wasn’t feeling challenged! Video games can only be so much of a challenge, even the games like text twist and such. Now I have AMT. I love the hits that make me think! As much as I hated my English classes in high school and college (probably because of the teacher, I had the same one for both) I truly enjoy doing rewrites and transcriptions. Never thought writing would pay off! Though it isn’t much money, at a penny to $0.25, I have gotten a few hits that pay a dollar or two. As others have said, it does add up! I’ve been eyeing the Kindle, I thought I could NEVER afford it. Amazon Mechanical Turk is like playing a video game that pays off…so this grey haired grandma turker will have that Kindle after all, then I will keep going to pay for the book downloads…Thank you, Amazon Mechanical Turk!!!!

I can’t remember exactly how I first heard about Amazon Mechanical Turk. I want to say that I saw it first on Digg. I was first quite skeptical about MTurk because it seemed like a “get rich fast” sort of scheme. However then I saw that they paid you only in a few cents usually so I knew that it would take quite a bit of time to accumulate a significant amount of money. I first heard about MTurk probably about three or four months ago. I tried it out but then I stopped doing it for quite a while. But now it’s the summer time and I don’t have classes. So, that is why I gave MTurk a second chance. I found out that there are good days where there are a ton of good, quick, fast paying HITS, while on slow days, there is practically nothing but audio transcriptions. The pay for audio transcriptions is a little bit crazy, they pay you so little for the type of work you have to do. I tried doing an audio transcription but I gave up about halfway through. The highest paying hit that I have done thus far was one that rewarded ten dollars to look for professors that taught a certain course. I was so happy when it was accepted and my balance was ten dollars more! I’m trying to save up for a set of noise-cancelling headphones. Hopefully I’ll make enough soon, probably one or two more weeks. This HIT is pretty neat too, hopefully I’ll get paid for it!

I am a 39 year old woman with 3 boys, who are my best blessing and the cause of much heartache. I wish I knew all the right answers when I was asked a question. I have constant strugles like anyone else trying to juggle kids, work and a social life. I went into the Marines right after high school graduation. I love to learn new things and want to live life to the fullest. My dream of traveling outside of the US is on my list of accomplishments I hope to acheive soon. I also want to learn an instrument and get back in shape. I love to read and watch movies. I am also lazy and lose interest in things very quickly, I am known to start something and work on it for awhile and then just go on to something else and never finish what I started. Currently I have a started quilt, a bag of yarn and needles, the makings of many a craft project all just hanging out to be finished at a later date. I am a good friend and daughter, a pretty good sister and struggle every day to be the best Mom I can be. I feel lucky and blessed to be where I am, with good health, family and friends.

I found out about Mturk, last year at a time when i was looking for a new job. I was staying at home, mailing resumes, calling up consultants, but i was free most of the time, and really bored. I wanted to see if there was a way i could earn money in my free time, not too much, just some change. I think i found out about this in a blog somewhere, and decided this could not be a scam since it was run by Amazon. So, i started tentatively, and tried to earn at least $1 a day, doing some task or the other, so that at the end of the month i would have at least earned $30. I did manage to do that, and even though i stopped doing Mturk for a few months, since i was too busy working, on a project. However i have managed to earn about $320 on this site, which i feel is pretty good. I started working on Mturk hits, as a way to earn extra income, and i must say, it has helped me buy some nice stuff. I mostly transfer the money to a bank account, where it is posted as a Direct deposit, which is another added advantage for me. Overall i am very glad that i found this site, and even though there are plenty more freelance sites out there, i think this is the best, since here you can really work at your own leisure. Also you do not have to bid on the project, like for other sites, and you can work on the Hit, as long as you qualify for it.