So I was listening to NPR on the way home and heard a segment about this. It's basically a virtual/digital sweatshop but just in front of your computer. Seems like something people can do if they are unemployed or need a little extra money. I just got an account for it.
Just curious if anyone is doing/has done this.
Never heard of it before. But this might be something to keep me occupied while at work!
The jobs are called HITs, Human Intelligence Task. It doesn't pay very much(hence the sweatshop reference) but it's pretty easy. The first one I did was for $1 that involved going to google search results for a company. Basically it was just getting something off the page to prove you visited it. Took about 20 minutes only because it took me a few minutes to understand the wording of the request. It was using the term "return" as what I was supposed to type into the field.
Then I found some HITs that paid $.02 that took about 30 seconds. It was basically identifying whether an image was a photograph or not. There was about 10-20 on a page and had a "photo" button and "no photo" button.
I just threw on iTunes and started buzzing through them. We will see if I keep interest.
I signed up for an account but it says it's going to take about 48 hours. I'm thinking it might be an easy way to turn down-time at work (sometimes we get a lot of it) into some project money 
We'll see how it works out. Either way, thanks for the heads up!
Hungary Bill wrote: I signed up for an account but it says it's going to take about 48 hours. I'm thinking it might be an easy way to turn down-time at work (sometimes we get a lot of it) into some project money
This.
It was good when I was in college. I no longer have the time for it, and I still have a lot of free time.
I did it for a while. Made a few bucks in Amazon credit. Then they wanted all my tax info - I.e. my Social Security number. Sorry, I don't want Amazon to have that. So I cashed out all my credits on something I needed on Amazon, and never logged in again.
If you don't mind working for <$3/hr, go for it.
I did it for a couple of months a few years back, made almost $500 one month. That said, the overall pay seems to have dropped on the jobs they offer.
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Every time I've looked, every job looked like work, sounded like work, smelled like work, but didn't pay like work. It's been a while though - maybe they've improved. I figured it would only work if I was living somewhere where the exchange rate and cost of living served as multipliers. On the up side, Amazon seems to want to keep things honest.
It's not something to live off of that's for sure. I am gonna try it for a little while and see if it is worth it for a (tiny) second income.
What is the amount that you would get 1099'd at, anyone know?
$600 iirc.
I tried it a couple times to see if I could make a bit of extra cash. Every thing I found was just too much work for the few cents you get so I didn't find it worth it.
Some results:
I've worked 20 of the last 45 days. Only working during the "down time" I had at work (no weekends, no after hours work) and so far I've made $125.00.
I'm never going to get rich doing this, but it sure does pass the time 
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