I am the youngest one in my family. Being a civil engineer most of the time I would spend at construction sites. I am a diplomo holder and I am working for the past 12 years. I started my career at a very early age. I joined as a trainee and now I am a Quality Manager. I was working in Gulf for around two years and very recently got married. Registered with mturk to utilize my leisure hours usefully. I love to watch movies and fiddle with my computer. As soon as I come home from office I will start my work on my laptop. My wife will keep scolding me for this. I was actually very irresponsible when I was a bachelor. I was a spendthrift. I had passion towards electronic appliances. Which ever comes new in the market I will be in a mood to try it out.But now, after I got married I scarificed my passion. Because I need to lead a budget life and it is tough for me to enjoy these extra stuff. I have so many targets/annual goals set for this year. Planning to buy a plot at my hometown and construct a 3 storey cost effective apartment. I would be the sole engineer of my apartment. Need to buy a luxury car too. Not sure whether I would be able to make my dream true but it’s my strong belief that only dreams can make you reach higher and higher places. I am expecting a baby within next couple of months and feeling so proud about it. Infact after marraige I became more responsible and started thinking more about my future. Became very family concerned and leading a happy life.

I started using Mturk about a month ago. At first I didn’t think it was real, but you actually get paid for your articles. I noticed that some of the Requesters are full of crap. They offer a task for $4.00, and they nit pick every little thing. I noticed a pattern for anything over $3.00; they really don’t want to pay so they find something wrong with your writing. Also there are some requesters that offer .25 cents for an article and they want 500+ words. They are ridiculous, they need to offer more money, and research alone takes a while. I had an experience the other week that blew my mind. I wrote an article for a requester, he said he loved it and paid me for my services. He later sent me a hate email saying I was a bitch and that I tricked him because one of the terms in my article was not an offered at a certain institution. I was appalled and shocked. I did my research and I have been writing for a while. I offered to refund him the money, but he never responded to me. I even wrote an email to Mturk and they said it was not their place to get between a client and a task performer. I thought that was the stupidest thing I had ever heard of. I guess anyone can verbally abuse you, and Mturk will do nothing, it is not there place. There should be better regulation of the requesters. They should be fined for using vulgar language, I bet that way it would cease very quickly.

I like to eat a lot and play video games. I am in my twenties and attend a state school. I have two miniature dachshunds along with my girlfriend. Last night, Bella, the female, gave birth to four puppies. She did wonderfully and is hanging out in bed, exhausted, and letting the puppies suckle. I love dogs! I also am trying to make a lot of money right now doing whatever I can as I am in a lot of debt. I have faith in the economy rebounding though, and I believe I will be able to find a decent job once I leave college. I voted for Barack Obama this past election and am very happy he is President. I like to think of myself as politically involved or conscious and I wish more people would pay attention or care about politics. I really think Bush Jr. messed up our country. And not just that, I feel like his actions explain why a lot of the world dislikes Americans. Shame on them for clumping us all together… We don’t all like Halliburton’s blood money. I hope to see mTurk turn into something better though. I think this web site has a lot of potential, but there needs to be more oversight to make sure that workers’ rights aren’t being ignored. Additionally, there seem to be some scams occasionally on the site that are just trying to get a person’s info. That is unfortunate. Still, I think the web site is really cool and I will probably keep doing it for a while.

“I’m bored, I’m bored, I’m bored.” These three words last year kept going through my mind after facing retirement. So what was I suppose to do to pass my time and earn a little money on the side? I got to tell you, I got pretty sick of going down the road looking for bottles and cans. Bit of a trick, it was, avoiding being hit by cars. I really just wanted to stay home and try to find something other than surveys to do. Hey, I found something interesting…Amazon Turk. Now to see if it’s a scam. It wasn’t! The first time I withdrew earnings from them, it was sitting right there in my bank account two days later. I got addicted to the darn thing. It took a while to find my niche and learn how to looks up hits in the many way’s they have, but I did it! Sometimes I’d be lucky if I made a dollar a day, other times it would be several dollars a day. I’d sit at my computer on cold winter nights when you couldn’t get out of the driveway and pass my time and just watch the money grow. I’d get really excited when I did an article and earned six dollars for an hour worth of work. Amazon Turk has helped me buy things I normally wouldn’t spend the money on. I was able to buy a small freezer using the most of the money I had in my account. Love ya, Turk! In one year I’ve made $650.00!

I am an enthusiastic youth, searching for online jobs to raise my daily allowance for college needs. I was disappointed with lack of honest online paying jobs and loads of scam sites. Then one day, my friend introduced me to Amazons Mechanical Turk, which changed things for me. It has been such a great experience working on a wide variety of tasks and getting decent pay for it. Mechanical Turk always provided with good no of feasible tasks and also the approval rate and the time taken to approve has been excellent. I started off with an aim of earning at least 1$ per day. But by the end of the first month, I had earned 45+ $ which was a result of my dedication to the site. Later on, though my earning rate decreased, it has still motivated me to continuously search for good tasks and work on them. This extra money that I earned through the site helped me meet my additional needs of college life such as clothes, movies and eating out at restaurants which was earlier only an aspiration. Now with my success on this site, even friends and relatives have got inspired to try out this site. Not only does this extra money fulfil my fancy needs but also it gives me a sense of satisfaction and contentment that I can spend on my additional needs without having to ask the cash from my parents. I would really love to thank the team behind the site to come up with such noble idea of helping people in need of jobs as well as helping those in need of talented labor.

I am a homemaker right now and got married a couple of months back. I was working before my marriage. But now my husband is not ready to send me to job. So right now happily leading my life as a homemaker. To spend time properly and usefully started working on mturk. I have handful of interesting experiences when I was working. I was working for almost 5 years and changed 5 companies. I started my career as a project trainee for a stipend of very meager amount. But struggled hard and worked sincerely. I was a software engineer infact. So all my time gone into computers and coding. Will always be thinking of how to achieve an optimum solution. My hometown was actually very far from my office so I was staying in working women hostel.Will have nice fun and enjoyment during weekends. My parents was getting worried as I was growing older and it’s high time that I should get married. Started searching a guy for me. But I had more constraints for my partner due to which it became difficult for my parents to find even a single guy matching my constraints. I too took steps by registering in matrimonial sites. To my fortune I found my partner in one of the site and got introduced myself through chat and mails. We both got a mutual understanding and were ready to get married. So we shared our feelings for each other to our parents. Both of our parents immediately agreed and finally got married.

I joined Mechanical Turk back in 2008 pretty much because I needed some extra cash and this seemed like a simple way to get that. Several years ago, I was an assistant manager at a national chain pharmacy. The economy (in this state) had begun to go downhill way before the rest of the country started to feel it. Anyways, as an assistant manager, I was making $14.00 per hour, which is pretty good considering (at that time) I had no college degree. That company decided to fire all of it’s assistant managers and replace them all with newbies making only $9.00 per hour. In our district (approx. 10 stores) 25 of us lost our jobs. Thinking that everything would be OK and I could get a new job in no time at all, I began my new job search. The days without work, turned into weeks. Weeks turned into months, and months turned into years. 2 YEARS constantly job searching, with no LUCK whatsoever. My applications and resumes were constantly denied due to the fact that I made “SO much money” at my former job. Employers just kept telling me, “We can’t match the pay that you were getting at ——-. We’re sorry.” I finally got wise to that. I started leaving the “What were you paid?” section on the applications blank. I started getting more phone calls for interviews, and when asked what was I making, I would simply say, “I don’t want what I was being paid at ——. I simply want a paycheck. I don’t expect you to match what I was paid.” I ended up getting a job making minimum wage, flipping burgers. My job search has continued throughout my employment at this HORRIBLE fast food company, with no luck at all. So….after all of that, I did some research on “work at home” jobs to try to compensate for some of my lost income. And Mechanical Turk came to my rescue.

It’s so hard to make money on mechanical turk these days, sadly. When I was unemployed, and could go on the net for hours on end, it wasn’t nearly so bad. It was some money I could spend on books and cds. But now I work over 40 hours a week, I don’t have any time, and it’s horrible because I have very little time for myself. I leave for work at 7, get home after 6, and goto bed at 10. What sort of life is this? Sometimes I wonder. My job is pretty dull, its at an interesting place but I don’t do anything particularly important. It makes me feel a bit like old wallpaper sometimes. And I don’t earn much money. All I want to do is travel and spend time with my family, but I just never have enough time or money for either. Unfortunately, living where I do, I can’t actually download the MTurk money to my bank account either. Instead I use it to buy ‘luxury’ goods like books, and then I save my salary so I can spend it on special things like holidays… or not so special things like trips to the dentist. In fact, it feels like one tooth is going to die. But I do like Mturk, I like the distraction. And I like to think about the places I have visited… the Eiffel Tower, Disneyland, Berlin, Versailles, Edinburgh, Windsor, Singapore…. maybe someday I will have enough to escape again.

It all started about 15 months ago, when I stumbled across the mTurk concept by accident. I was immediately sucked in and since then I made about $4,000 in my spare time. A little background about myself: I’m a researcher in computer science and I live in Italy. Here we are not paid as much as in the USA and since I buy anyway a lot of English books from Amazon I decided to try it. There are some things that I like about mTurk (and quite a lot that I don’t). I like to be able to make some cents by clicking on my laptop while I’m watching television or while I’m watching on the laptop itself an old episode of X-files. I don’t like the fact that we, the workers, have so little power and many requesters (like the Askville team) have no respect for us. The requesters who actually have an interaction with us (on the semi-official turker’s forum) are just few. Another thing I really do not like is that only people from USA and India can be paid with money. The others can only use the rewards to buy items from Amazon. Well, I would buy anyway items from Amazon most of the times, but I really would like to be able to transfer the money to my account on the Amazon UK site, since the shipping rates from USA to Europe (plus the tax that I have to pay on most of the goods coming from outside Europo) are really killing the fun for me. Often I buy an used book for less than $1 and I have to pay more than $12 in shipping. In practice the only items I can buy, apart books, are videogames and small electronic items (but only few of them). Anyway, sometimes I appreciate the fact that I have to buy Amazon items: I’m usually a parsimonious guy, so I usually refrain from buying costly books. The fact that I cannot convert my rewards in real money gives me an alibi and make me more relaxed in seconding my book-a-holic attitudes. I sometimes feel a little guilty using mTurk, thinking that I’m taking away work from people who really deserve it. But my rate of work is quite sloppy, most of the time. Indeed, for a couple of months I used all my spare time to work on mTurk, but then I put a stop on it, since it was becoming a sort of drug: I liked to see the cents and bucks piling up in my account, but I had no more spare time to read books, which was the original cause of my working ! :)

Ok, I began working as a Mechanical Turk because I need money! After researching what “Mechanical Turk” is, I found out that it is a legit business which is so rare to find nowadays and I would get paid right away. The problem is, the pay is not that great! To be honest, I have a wedding this August, behind on bills, and was lowered my workload due to the fabulous economy. Talk about bad timing. So to sum it up, I am willing to be a Mechanical Turk Slave and hope to find as many one or two dollar hits as possible! I know this is not possible because I see hundreds of hits paying one cent to fifty cents but hey, it will add up. I am only able to work from home due to my special needs son who needs me here so I only have the internet as my work outlet and finding any kind of work out there is very important to me right now. I will bundle up as many hits as possible and get them done as soon as possible because it is income for me and my family. It is not much at all but it is something, if not, some grocery money for the week or a bill or two to get out of the way. I am just another American trying to survive and keep up with life that will keep going! I really hope to see more better paying hits available!