The best term to describe me is ‘reluctant housewife’. I have the most amazing children and a husband who I usually think I don’t deserve. They all keep me busy definitely and on most occasions happy, or at least content. But, the one elusive thing in my life lately is accomplishment and, more importantly, being paid for something I have accomplished. Mechanical Turk offers me that outlet. I can take a few minutes, or maybe even an hour, and work on HITs. Sure, the pay isn’t astronomical, but it’s something I can say I did and I earned. My life is an eccletic one. I was a soldier and traveled extensively in Europe. I survived retail work and all of its soul sucking days. I assembled alarm systems in a factory and even made it through a summer of really bad waitressing. I have lived in at least five different states and survived hurricanes and blizzards, but all of that is now my past. Life is more stable now and though I appreciate the monotony sometimes, it can also become so boring I don’t want to get out of bed. But I do. I try to remember all that I’ve done. I finished a college degree, something that took almost ten years, and found a whole new layer of myself in literature and creative writing. I had my last two children late in life and now I get another chance to experience youth through them. Gray hair is,after all, just a part of the outer picture of a person and doesn’t limit where your mind can take you. The body may not be able to keep up as well as it used to, but that’s ok. I have lived in small towns and large cities, on this side of the pond and across it, but all that life experience is wasted if you never get a chance to share it. So, for me right now, working online is an outlet. I can work on HITs while I navigate this sometimes boring world of the housewife and even make a little money at the same time.