Amazon Mechanical Turk? - Spidra Webster

Tina.morale.reboot(); // Keep trying Tina! - Mo Kargas

Development is my weaker skillset: I'm slow as molasses at it. Wind up making peanuts per hour in order to make a competitive bid on a project. - FFing Enigma

Hmm, I have to agree with the 'peanuts' part. Maybe look at a career change ? - Mo Kargas

Someone told me that despite my first impression of Mechanical Turk that the tasks are not necessarily programming. Just tasks that humans can do better than computers. - Spidra Webster

Okay, I just checked on AMT. It seems that "secret shopper" people and content farmers have discovered the site. So it looks like you don't need to be a programmer at all but it might be hard separating the wheat from the chaff. - Spidra Webster

That's good to know, thanks =) - FFing Enigma

A lot of Mechanical Turk stuff is busy-work, though - you'd have to do a ton of it to actually make much money. One thing for a little supplemental income, but I doubt you could get enough to survive on. Rochelle does some MTurk stuff, as I recall, she'd probably know more about what's available. - Jandy

Jandy, it was kinda looking like that to me but I've not dug into the projects very much. Might as well take a look, though: might be the way to work towards getting the skates I want... - FFing Enigma

:( - Yolanda

Yeah, I was thinking of it just a way to make a little $ after all the day's jobhunting is done... - Spidra Webster

in 5 years I went from frontline call center Internet Repair rep to telephone repair rep to telephone lead to anti-virus & wireless lead to Commercial Business frontline rep to Interner Repair Lead, I suspect within 4 months I'll be a sup and a project manager of some sorts by the end of 2010, it's not so bad when you're off the phones, but if I had to spend another day listening to the crap coming through these days, I'd have to do a /wrists - Tsali - el Rey de Reyes

The hardest part when I was on the lines is that I worked a 10 hour shift; I would lose my voice the last two hours for the first month! - FFing Enigma

{{{{{{{{ Tina }}}}}}}} - Ordinarybug Heather

Chin up, Tina. At the very least, it's a means to an end - pays a few bills; allows you to have a few treats. You never know; you might make a bunch of great new friends. And, there's nothing to stop you from continuing to look for something more rewarding in the meantime. xx - Andrew Terry

hugs it will get better. i know the feeling well. i went six months with no luck back in the day when i first moved out of town... - Terry O'Fee

Actually, Andrew, that seems to be the problem when I apply for a lower level job: they always assume that I'm going to take it as a stop gap and will leave when/if I find something better. So they don't hire me. Grrr.... - FFing Enigma

Been there, done that Tina. :) You will make it through, and someone will see the wisdom of hiring you. I hope it's soon, and you don't go too crazy before then. - Bette Cooper

Well, we'll hope I don't go too much MORE crazy: I've always been a little off ;-) - FFing Enigma

I do Mechanical Turk (and have for about 2 years now) and don't/can't program at ALL. - Rochelle

Rochelle, how much time would you say you put towards MT each week? - FFing Enigma

It really varies. I used to spent 10+ each week. These days, maybe an hour. Depends on how bored or busy I am. - Rochelle