I just graduated from university a month ago. Currently I have a job that pays very well and is located only 5 minutes from where I live. I have my own condo and two cars with no debt to speak of. So why on earth would I want to work for mturk? I’ve been using the website for approximately 10 days and I’ve only earned about a dollar a day. I realized I’m not doing it for the money, but rather for the challenge. My job can get quite boring at times and after playing minesweeper and solitaire for hours, I realized this is a better way to waste time. I constantly set goals for how much I will try to earn. I started off hoping to make 5 dollars, then 10 dollars, now I’m hoping to get to 20 dollars by the end of the week. In a sick way I’m using mturk for fun (who would consider these repetitive tasks fun right?). I’m not sure how long I will use the website, I keep telling myself I will stop once I reach my goal but it never ends. The HITS I usually work on are usually the mundane surveys, quizzes, questionnaires. I tried doing those “are these items different?” but after 20 of them I found it was not even worth my time. Furthermore, it’s the only task where my work has been rejected (3 times!). Finding out your work has been rejected is quite frustrating, but not as bad as filling out a questionnaire that takes 20 minutes only to find out it won’t submit….FML