I won't bore you guys with my sob story but I've been unemployed and doing fuck all day after day for quite some time. I've been trying to educate myself about coding which is where I hope to land in due time, but it's been hard to summon enough motivation in the vacuum.
This got me thinking, maybe I can supplement my family income by doing a bunch of no strings attached computer stuff on fivver or something and get a bit of experience with coding along the way. Getting five bucks for an hour or two of work would be good pocket money here in Russia.
I'm a stemlord and generally consider myself to have a bit of a talent with coding, despite never having done it in a professional capacity. I know some C# from making shitty games in Unity, some Python from tinkering with machine learning and a bit of JavaScript.
Is there a smart way to approach this? I'm willing to learn those new fancy web frameworks or whatever.
sometimes I fill out surveys on https://app.prolific.co/studies
It's very low paying, but as close to "my own terms" as I can get
Prolific is pretty decent lately actually. Extra 10 bucks here and there for not that much effort
It's safe and secure? Seems too good to be true
It's just a way a bunch of colleges and research groups outsource stuff for studies. I've used it for years without issue.
It's less sketchy than most survey sites and stuff like that because you're being paid by researchers instead of straight up companies just trying to make you buy something.
I have no idea on the overall security of it, but it's just demographic info and such you're giving them so if you're worried of that getting out then maybe not, if that's fine there's not much to worry about.
You're not going to be dealing with popups or having to download software or whatever if that's what you're concerned with.