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.)
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.)