Mechanical Turk Update.
So amazon's Mechanical Turk servers are running pretty smoothly now and I'm getting a lot of HITs done. I've been timing myself to see how fast I can do these things and what my estimated hourly wage is.
Here is what I found out: Today while listening to a 30 minute mp3 lecture about Linguistics I managed to complete a total of 170 HITs. Double that and that's a cool 340 HITs an hour or $10.20/hour. Woohoo! 10 bucks an hour for sitting around my home listen to a lecture/music? I can eat whenever I feel like, stop and watch TV or even play a few rounds of CSS or DODS? ah, life is good.
And the only set back? Well some of my choices get rejected, which is understandable sometimes it's hard to pick the right picture.. plus my average on each HIT is about 17 to 18 seconds. I have quick eyes and quick fingers but even these babies make mistakes. On top of that who knows what those picky people at Amazon really want. However I can handle the rejection because the number continues to remain small. The biggest problem I see out of all this is the fact that a lot of my HITs are still PENDING. I mean come on Amazon.com quicken the pace and get my work OKed so I can get paid. Over all I'm quiet happy with my progress and I hope I can pull in enough cash to pay rent while I wait for news on my future employment (at a real job).
2 comments:
How do they get the money to you anyway? Is it deposited into your account, or via paypal or some similar program?
More importantly, what linguistics tape were you listening to? I would be interested to know what you have learned.
The money can be dropped into your Amazon.com account or you can have it wired directly to your bank.
The lecture is from The Teaching Company called 'Story of Human Langauge' and the lecturer is John McWhorter. It's an introduction class to linguistics detailing such this as how languages change, dialects, language familes, etc. I've already listen to 14 out of 36 of the lectures and it's pretty interesting.
I like the idea of listening to lectures even though I'm not in school anymore. Keeps my mind fresh. I found this one on a closed community torrent site but I'm sure you could find it out on the open web if you're interested. I got a bunch of other lectures too, such as a series on Thomas Jefferson and another on the History of Rome. In my opinion it beats reading cause I can listen to them while doing other (simple) things.
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