I’ve been a turker for the past few months, since I read about it in a magazine. For years, I’ve been looking for something I could do while I was at work to earn a little more money in my down time. And I seem to always have a lot of down time (I’m too efficient for my own good). Of course this ends up being practically just pennies an hour, but it’s better than nothing. I’ve made over $100 so far, which is pretty cool. I’m going on vacation next week so maybe I’ll use my little bit of extra cash to do something fun I wouldn’t have normally. Most of my working life I’ve been in market research, and I really enjoy seeing other people’s surveys. So, a lot of what I do on mTurk is fill out surveys. I particularly like the academic psychology studies, since I studied psychology in college and I’m still curious to see what people are doing research on these days. Some of the other tasks I do are the ones where I have to look things up on the Internet–that’s one of my strengths and it helps hone my online research skills too. I also like some of the writing tasks, since I don’t get to do much writing in my current job. I would recommend mechanical turk to a friend, but not to someone who really needs extra money fast. In the US at least, I know there are more productive ways of spending time to earn some extra money. I think it’s best for someone who’s a little bored and has some extra time on their hands.