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.