Six months and still no work. I care for my 84 yr old grandmother and am helping to raise my 14 yr old little sister. I moved here at the request of the family to care for grandma, nobody wants to send her to a rest home of course! For the past 2 years or so the family has been able to give me a small monthly stipend along with the room and board of being at my grandmothers. But this past year everyone in the family is hurting financially. Grandma has racked up some impressive credit bills and the APR’s have shot through the roof and she cant make her utility payments and the credit bills..and the amount the family has been able to afford has dropped significantly. So near the first of the year I started putting in applications for P/T work. I was applying for office jobs, even just filing. For the past 3 months I’ve started applying at fast food places, even McDonalds. I’ve gotten 1 call back. Nobody is hiring and the places that do need help, I’m not qualified for. So, Mechanical Turk to the rescue! It wasn’t long after the first of the year that I heard of mturk and since then I’m working every night for at least 6 hours. It isn’t the biggest of earnings of course, but it has enabled me to keep the electricity and the telephone paid for! I don’t know what I’d do without mturk right now!