I found out about MTurk when I was still participating in a site called ChaCha to try and save up a little extra money while I was home after having ankle surgery. I thought it looked like an interesting idea, but for some reason, I forgot to sign up. It’s been a few months, and the other day, I was again looking online for ways to make money, as ChaCha has become somewhat unreliable. I recognized the mturk name as soon as I saw it, and clicked on it again. I logged in, wondering again what stopped me last time, and on my first day, I made $10 in just a couple hours. Sure, the amount that you make hourly typically won’t rival, or even come close to match what you could make working in an office environment, but in this economy, a lot of people don’t really have a say in whether or not they’re working. My husband and I would like extra money, but we don’t really need that much. We talked about what to do with the extra money for a little while - do we use it for “going out” money? Save up for a long time for a vacation? We had just gone on vacation, so we didn’t have a need (or vacation hours!) to plan for another one. And that’s when we decided we’d use mturk to buy ourselves something we’ve wanted for over two years. And thanks to mturk and amazon, I am now about halfway to a Nintendo Wii after only a week of working. That’s my mturk autobiography. What’s yours?