05/14 - Smooth Sunday!

Title: What do you think?(~ 3 minutes) | PANDA Worker: Preview | Accept | Requester Requester: MCLab [AZR310BSNDL9Z] (Contact) TO 1: [Pay: 4.00] [Fast: 0.00] [Comm: 0.00] [Fair: 0.00] [Reviews: 1] [ToS: 0] TO 2: Not Available Description: We want to know what you think! Time: 30 minutes HITs Available: 1 Reward: $0.30 Qualifications: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; Exc: [41931074-42944] DoesNotExist ; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 97; Location In US;

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v1.21.10​

 

Just curious, but language(s) / amount of time you spend googling for an answer?

 

Your HIT activity for this week:
- Number of HITs submitted: 4,600
Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 4,482
- Number of HITs rejected: 0
- Bonus reward earned: $16.98
- HIT reward earned: $482.12
- Total Amount earned this week: $499.10



Pending earnings [ Last updated: 0 seconds ago ] $166.03

 

Judging from the thread, I think we're all a little Dale Cooper this week.

 

1. 500/month. Includes rent, utilities, car and food. Me and the wifu share the expenses so double that for a monthly couples expenses.
2. It helped me a lot since I didn't have a job and I needed to pay rent. I left my home 4 years ago and I really didn't wanted to go back. Then I asked the wifu to move in with me. She agreed with my madness and now we've been living together for 3 years. Now we both have IRL jobs but we turk on the side.
3. Learn to cook. It has helped me a lot when saving money.

 

I agree. I cash out of Mturk and AMP every day. Even on the weekends. I don't trust Amazon at all.

 

I almost dropped my coffee cup LOL

 

Right!! That bonus alone eclipses my whole week, plus another.

 

I'm happy for you guys, really I am, but all these "how much I've made this week/day" posts usually depress me. I just can't seem to make that much.. think I'm somehow missing all the good stuff.

Granted, I don't devote eight hours a day to this, but still... it's not like doing nothing.

 

1). Much more than any have posted thus far - but will be explained better in #3.
2). Turking has helped, yes. I use to be a high value inspector for several major insurance carriers. The running was getting out of hand, so I scaled back and took an at home position with one of the companies. I, too, work 40/50 hours per week while Turking on the side and once a year, I go with a locksmith to branches of a large bank and we open safety deposit boxes. I inventory the contents if any is found. Probably my favorite job to date. The cut in funds precluded us from some of the extras the children needed. The monies I make turking generally go for the "extras".
3). My savings advice is buy real estate - we own several rental properties as well as two vacation homes. We purchased low and do much of the work ourselves. I sat down with a lawyer and learned the ropes as far as collecting rents and taking tenants to court.

 

Speaking from experience.. Don't do this. Nothing but shame & mockery awaits.

 

Your HIT activity for this week:
- Number of HITs submitted: 804

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 647
- Number of HITs rejected: 3
- Bonus reward earned: $9.02
- HIT reward earned: $130.50
- Total Amount earned this week: $139.52

Still baby change compared to what some of you guys are bringing in BUT working 40+ a week in office and being able to pull this makes me super happy.
Also I think I am going to start changing my goal from at least $20 a day to the amount of bills I wanna get covered in a week. That keeps me super motivated. :3 Yay Goals!

 

That's kind of similar to my husband's career path. He managed to go from college dropout for doing something dumb -> typical minimum wage clerk -> extremely low level job at Samsung -> 3-4 job changes in 3 years -> makes almost double what I did with a Master's degree. College isn't the only way to get a decent job, you can teach yourself the right skills in the right market. We happen to live geographically in a market that has a lot of opportunity for IT work.

I will say that his most recent pay increase is because he got his Bachelor's. He did it online at a self-paced fully accredited college called WGU. I'd recommend looking into it if anyone needs a degree but can't do traditional college hours. It's really meant for people who have a job but need a degree to advance their career and it gets rid of most of the traditional university BS. I went to the graduation ceremony and I think the average age was like 33, lol. It was pretty interesting compared to traditional universities.

 

Don't feel bad... a lot of us are on for 10+ hrs every day and it takes some good quals and intense dedication to make more than $100 a week sometimes. You'll get there! Just keep a watch out for quals and awesome batches and always have your PANDAs running!

 

I am actually about to start at WGU because I want to get an HIM BS to go with my CIS and get certified for Medical Coding so I can sit at home instead of a 45 minute commute both ways -_-.
That's awesome he finished up there.
Makes me feel a bit better about not wanting to go back to a traditional university.

 

Honestly I didn't start making much until I hit 5k in hits.
That's at the point I started getting better batches and being able to figure out which hits worked the best for me.
That and I learned how to take advantage of my pandas.