Three years ago I read an article in The Economist about Mechanical Turk in my apartment in France. I was quite curious as to what this was all about and the morning of 24 June 2006 at breakfast I made my first penny. I am not sure if this was the start of a new life as my son was born the following day, but I am still doing HITs. Almost three years and $366.62 richer, I am not sure what it is that keeps me going. I certainly do not count in any way on this income although I have used the cash to pay for many useless purchases on Amazon.com. It is not a large sum, but nothing to spit at either. At the start I enjoyed particularly working the HITS that required some thinking, or posed an intellectual challenge. The increasingly blatant commercial nature of the HITS has taken a lot of the earlier pleasure that I was obtained from this exercise, but I still keep going. I suspect that it is boredom in that keeps me at it. I measure the boredom at work by the number of HITS that I accomplish: to a certain extent the greater the number the greater the boredom. I may also be trying for a world record for having turked in the largest number of countries. To date I can count France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Denmark, USA, Senegal, Niger, Liberia, Ghana, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Chad and Cameroon. How do I measure the competition?