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.
not sure if you'd need a VPN to use something like Mechanical Turk or other piecemeal online jobs, I've often wondered how feasible it would be to use machine learning to crank out podcast transcripts and other things that are considered 'manual task' on those platforms
there's some alternatives to MTurk, but it definitely seems to be one the more established platforms related to what you are considering, but country/region locks might be tough to get around (I'm not sure how you get paid, etc)
maybe just look at the different common tasks on these platforms and then work on building some code to automate a common subset
decent list of options here: https://whippio.com/mturk-alternatives/