• D61 [any]
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    10 months ago

    I tried Upwork once at the recommendation of a pretty good boss I once had... after 6 months and only 1 failed attempt at getting some simple "do excel work online for other people" I deleted it and went to the local "sell your bodily fluids" building.

    Made more money and it felt less draining to do.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      10 months ago

      Ah! Can't wait for it to be legal to sell blood in Argentina, viva la libertad!

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      10 months ago

      I tried doing MTurk with all the plugins and shit. Did not get many good results. I’ve seen people say “you gotta do 100 or 1000 tasks within a week” and bro I’m not sitting here answering a 30 minute survey for 12 cents lol.

      • D61 [any]
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        10 months ago

        MTurk is something I do every now and again. Its very cyclical though. Both with the tasks offered and my anxiety hitting a level that I can make myself obsessively click buttons for hours a day for a few bucks.

        I've been able to get a hundred dollars(ish) in a month doing surveys posted by Universities and Marketing research departments if I spend hours each day clicking through everything possible. But after a few months they dry up and I stop checking the listings. (Probably lines up with grad students schedules). The few actual "help a business do business stuff" are so dodgy for me that it fucks up my Accept/Reject number.

        • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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          10 months ago

          Yeah I’ve made a couple hundred a month doing Prolific. Not bad considering I try my best to do it during company time lol

          • D61 [any]
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            10 months ago

            Prolific? Never heard of that.

            • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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              10 months ago

              You answer surveys for PHD students, researchers, and corporate focus tests. Most of them the time you get few a couple dimes per study. It’s not much but I get to shit while getting paid. Only thing I hate is having to visually confirm my identity because I don’t trust their storage to not be backed.