I think you are foreclosing options here. When you say
and at least in the general sense of ‘job’, it’s unlikely I’ll be able to acquire one
I read this as
I can’t get a job which will pay >$20 an hour without being too much work, and working for $4 an hour on Amazon Mechanical Turk or one of the other options available to me as an Internet user just are too distasteful
Additional detail: I am physically unable to hold a job which pays local minimum wage. This is the reason why the government sends me the monthly deposit.
And I am unfamiliar with ‘Amazon Mechanical Turk’, though I’ll Google it as soon as I finish looking at the Freecycle recommended elsewhere in this thread.
FWIW, I’ve done Mechanical Turk in the past. There’s plenty of work there, but I’m serious when I describe the hourly wage as $4 or less. (I view it as kind of a lower bound on the value of time.)
I’ve just finished comparing various documents; and it turns out that Mechanical Turk falls under one of the categories of my monthly deposit’s rules, in that for every dollar I would be paid from performing Turk tasks, fifty cents would be deducted from my next monthly deposit. Thus, even if I put $4 of effort per hour into Turk tasks, I would increase my actual income by $2 per hour of effort; which, while more than $0, is still pretty low… the local bus costs $2.50, so I could increase my effective income by more than that per hour by simply spending my time walking everywhere rather than taking the bus.
Now that I know of MT, I’m going to keep it in the toolbox of potential options in case of emergency, but with my current understanding, I’m unlikely to make it a regular thing. (Unless I can come up with some way to do Turk tasks while doing something else at the same time, or find some other ‘cheat’ to increase its value—as usual, and suggestions would be appreciated.)
the local bus costs $2.50, so I could increase my effective income by more than that per hour by simply spending my time walking everywhere rather than taking the bus.
You’d probably also be healthier too—who gets enough exercise? (And audiobooks apparently work well for boredom.)
I think you are foreclosing options here. When you say
I read this as
Additional detail: I am physically unable to hold a job which pays local minimum wage. This is the reason why the government sends me the monthly deposit.
And I am unfamiliar with ‘Amazon Mechanical Turk’, though I’ll Google it as soon as I finish looking at the Freecycle recommended elsewhere in this thread.
FWIW, I’ve done Mechanical Turk in the past. There’s plenty of work there, but I’m serious when I describe the hourly wage as $4 or less. (I view it as kind of a lower bound on the value of time.)
I’ve just finished comparing various documents; and it turns out that Mechanical Turk falls under one of the categories of my monthly deposit’s rules, in that for every dollar I would be paid from performing Turk tasks, fifty cents would be deducted from my next monthly deposit. Thus, even if I put $4 of effort per hour into Turk tasks, I would increase my actual income by $2 per hour of effort; which, while more than $0, is still pretty low… the local bus costs $2.50, so I could increase my effective income by more than that per hour by simply spending my time walking everywhere rather than taking the bus.
Now that I know of MT, I’m going to keep it in the toolbox of potential options in case of emergency, but with my current understanding, I’m unlikely to make it a regular thing. (Unless I can come up with some way to do Turk tasks while doing something else at the same time, or find some other ‘cheat’ to increase its value—as usual, and suggestions would be appreciated.)
You’d probably also be healthier too—who gets enough exercise? (And audiobooks apparently work well for boredom.)