I read about Mechanical Turk in a Wall Street Journal article several months ago. The article described several ways to make money online and Mechanical Turk got a big write-up. I was intrigued and went online to investigate. Since I already had an Amazon account from my many purchases over the years, I was able to start working HITS right away. I was hooked from day one. I am semi-retired from the business world but not old enough to collect Social Security, so a little extra income is welcomed. I know that I am not going to get rich with this activity, but since March of ’09 I have made $151 so that’s not too shabby. I also really enjoy working on the HITs. There are so many different varieties that there is always something interesting to work on. I especially like and am good at, rewriting sentences. Although for the life of me, I can’t figure out why anyone would want to pay people for doing this. I also enjoy taking surveys. I feel that Mechanical Turk is a great site for people like me, who have left the regular work force and have extra idle time. Rather than spend this time doing mindless searches on the internet or playing online games or checking out social network sites, why not do something to exercise your mind and earn some mony to boot. I am so glad that I read that article in the Wall Street Journal, otherwise I would never have known about Mturk.