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The Shortest, Smallest Paying Jobs On The Web
Posted: admin on Aug 07 | Work At Home
Need a name looked up, a sentence rewritten, or the better of 2 photos selected? Here’s where you can get it done for a dime or less.
Like the amazing 18th century chess playing machine “The Turk” that won nearly every match, but turned to have a hidden human operator, the instructions you issue to the Amazon Mechanical Turk are executed by humans the “Artificial-Artificial Intelligence” behind the Turk.
The Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) provides human workers to perform micro tasks. The most common tasks pay 1 to 10 cents, some better paying HITs at the moment include: Write a quick 110 word response to a web page article for $0.30, Create a 9 minute audio to text transcription for $0.79, Re- Write An Article Of At Least 500 Words for $1.00.
While most of this work is done by people in the 3rd world, some middle class Americans tackle these chores like a crossword puzzle, perhaps collecting a stunning 45 cents for an hours labor.
To have a look, go to Amazon Mechanical Turk, click the link: View Them Now.
If you want to learn more about how turking is done, spend time on The Turk Nation Forum.
Here’s a more detailed description of Turking provided by ,chickenmeister a member of the forum
Mechanical Turk is a service that Amazon provides, where requesters can post tasks (called HITs - Human Intelligence Tasks) that workers can do. These tasks are usually things that an automated system wouldn’t be able to do well or efficiently.
There are a wide range of HITs. Here’s a short list/summary of the types of tasks:
- audio transcription
- gathering data off websites
- writing articles
- fill out surveys
- tagging images
- transcribing data from images
- posting comments on blogs/youtube videos/forums
- bookmark sites with social bookmarking sites (i.e. Digg, etc)
- answering questions for answer/question services/websites
- pretty much anything you can imagine
I generally categorize HITs into two categories — the quick and easy, and the long and tedious. The quick ones pay a lot less (typically 0.01 to 0.10), but you can do them much more quickly, and there’s generally several thousand of these available. The more difficult ones pay more, but they can take hours to do. Doing either of these will generally work out to be about the same, pay/time-wise.
The process generally goes like this:
- requesters post the tasks
- you browse the list of tasks, and find one you would like to do
- you can preview the hit before doing it
- if you like what you see, press the “Accept” button
- you can perform the task
- there is a time limit assigned to all tasks, but usually there is plenty of time
- once finished you submit the HIT
- the requester will review your work and accept or reject it
- if accepted, you get paid
The payments are transferred to your Amazon Payments account, from which you can transfer to either your bank account or an Amazon.com gift certificate.
I generally average about $10 per day, but it’s been kind of slow lately, so it’s probably less right now. I started in late June, and I’ve accumulated $325+ so far.
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