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Welcome to Amazon Mechanical Turk, the internet sweatshop. Because I have time but not money, I have been reading up on how to convert the one to the other. I mean, you can make things, you can sell things, you can do odd jobs, but none of those gives you instant satisfaction while you sit on your ass.

So what it Mechanical Turking? Besides being exhausting, it is a way for people/businesses to post odd jobs that are relatively simple to do but need real life humans to do them. Some of the things I’ve seen are writing reviews for restaurants and movies, pimping someone’s product on the internet, posting pictures of mustaches, and transcribing really boring podcasts. Prices offered for these tasks range from about $5.00 to $0.01. P.S. do not do the one penny ones unless you feel like giving away your good hard work to some cheap stingy asshole.

I guess I’ve spent about fours today and yesterday turking some odd transcriptions and paragraph edits, and I’ve made a grand total of $4.50. YEAH! Although techinically I’ve only been given 80 cents so far.

The moral of this story is that writing copy seems like a shitty job, and I’m glad I earned the easy way that it is not a career I want to pursue. Editing bad grammar is still fun though, and also it is awesome to feel superior and make 75 cents while you’re at it.

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