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I recently started doing Mechanical Turk tasks as a way to combat boredom and make some extra Amazon spending money. The pay is terrible, but since I'm sitting at a computer all day anyway, it hasn't really bugged me. But it makes me wonder if there are other types of work out there that I could be looking into. Are there companies who need someone to just sit around and input data or something? How would I go about finding them?
Yes. Alpine Access is a good place to make about $10/hour. You are a call center employee from home, basically. Babbletype is another place where $10/hr is reasonable and you can work it on your own time.

The pay on MT isn't terrible if you know what you're doing. Read this: http://www.thesimpledollar.com/can-you-actually-earn-reasonable-money-from-mechanical-turk/

I only work hits that are worth a dollar or more - most recently I wrote some preseason reviews of SEC football - $2.50 for 200 words. I did 8 in about 90 minutes, which came out to $13/hr...?

I actually have some money in my Amazon payments account but for some reason it keeps failing to transfer it to me. I need to look in to that.

ETA: The problem with "work from home" opportunities (or rather the problem with many people that pursue them) is that they include, you know, "work". Many people want to use the internet to make passive income and that is really hard to do without some technical expertise or hustling on the front it. But if you are willing (and it sounds like you are) to trade your time for revenue it is possible - often easy - to make an extra $10-12/day while watching TV or listening to music and doing mindless work.

 
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I recently started doing Mechanical Turk tasks as a way to combat boredom and make some extra Amazon spending money. The pay is terrible, but since I'm sitting at a computer all day anyway, it hasn't really bugged me. But it makes me wonder if there are other types of work out there that I could be looking into. Are there companies who need someone to just sit around and input data or something? How would I go about finding them?
I only work hits that are worth a dollar or more - most recently I wrote some preseason reviews of SEC football - $2.50 for 200 words.
One of the easiest/biggest "money makers" for me was photo identification. It was like 10 cents a pop but you could do about 3 of them a minute. All you had to do was to look at a photo and label it with whatever they were (or weren't) looking for. Another good one was rewriting sentences for 5-10 cents a hit. Nothing more than changing the wording from passive to active voice or replacing a couple of words with synonyms.

 
Officer Pete Malloy said:
shuke said:
Officer Pete Malloy said:
I'm not looking at that pic again until you all agree that the numbering should be:

Always start with the top row and go left to right.

1,2

3,4,5,6,7,8

EXAMPLE
no
Do you ever get tired of being wrong?
How many who's hottest polls have you started?

THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.
Got me there.

Remind me again how many times you won on Jeopardy?

 
BOX 'O' CRAP RECEIVED!!!! :excited: :lmao:

Checklist:

- one black dress shoe

- Sun Block SPF 110 - "THE HIGHEST KNOWN SPF TO ALBINO KIND"

- several straws

- a wonderful, heartfelt card with the inscribed message "I Love You - Zooks" :wub:

- $25 in cash, broken down by a $10, a $5 and several $2s

- 1999 Edition of Penthouse!

- Two Porn DVD's, that unbelievably were originally mine in the early aughts, but were shipped to Disco Stu to help deal with his humbling divorce and troubles with ladies. :lmao: How? Sidenote: That Jenna Jameson DVD was purchased on 9/11 after we shut down the office because markets were closed. I was tired of the tragedy porn so I went to the porn store and got porn porn.

- a 2011 desk calendar

- Gladiator VHS

- Beach Seat Cardio VHS

- Saw II DVD

- Midnight in Paris DVD

- Rum Diary DVD

- Flashlight

- Duck

- Q-tips

and if I left anything out, sue me. :lmao:
Please tell me there was a tube of ointment in there. I also shipped out my niece's birthday present at the same time and it might be awkward if I mixed that up and she asks her parents why Uncle Zooks sent her a tube ****-wart ointment.

Oh, and I thought the one dress shoe was a nice touch.
:oldunsure:

Tell me more about this 1999 Penthouse.
The thing is 14 years old. You don't think it's been "used"?
Oh, it was stickier than Cinnamon Roll left out in the sun, but that's not why I'm asking. I mean...here's a single guy with no restrictions on what he can buy and store in his house. Why keep around a Penthouse for 14 years unless it had some sort of intrinsic value or a famous nude celebrity? Inquiring minds...

 
I TOO received a BOX O' NOT CRAP

1 Madonna "Music" CD

1 Bob Marley "Legend" CD

1 Washington Redskins Wristband (cue faux outrage)

1 Boston Red Sox Greatest Moments in Boston Redsox DVD (with Easter Eggs)

Thanks Guster!

Guster. Please PM me your address. You are deserving of a return BOC.
Hey, did that sweater ever make it to you? Wife mailed it the day after Veterans Day (FYI, that's what you know as Armistice Day, Tanner).
 
-fish- said:
Spent a nice, quiet evening with my daughter. Every once in a while she calls me "Daddy" even though she decided she was too old for that and switched to "Dad" a couple years ago. We made hot chocolate and sat in front of the fire reading.

Best night in a long time.
Awesome.

 
Officer Pete Malloy said:
shuke said:
Officer Pete Malloy said:
I'm not looking at that pic again until you all agree that the numbering should be:

Always start with the top row and go left to right.

1,2

3,4,5,6,7,8

EXAMPLE
no
Do you ever get tired of being wrong?
How many who's hottest polls have you started?

THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.
Got me there.

Remind me again how many times you won on Jeopardy?
Oh.

#### just got real.

 
I TOO received a BOX O' NOT CRAP

1 Madonna "Music" CD

1 Bob Marley "Legend" CD

1 Washington Redskins Wristband (cue faux outrage)

1 Boston Red Sox Greatest Moments in Boston Redsox DVD (with Easter Eggs)

Thanks Guster!

Guster. Please PM me your address. You are deserving of a return BOC.
Hey, did that sweater ever make it to you? Wife mailed it the day after Veterans Day (FYI, that's what you know as Armistice Day, Tanner).
F#$&. Yes it did. I meant to post here and thank you.

My daughter laughed A LOT. Will attempt to post a picture or shot video at some point.

You also are owed a BOC. PM details.

 
I TOO received a BOX O' NOT CRAP

1 Madonna "Music" CD

1 Bob Marley "Legend" CD

1 Washington Redskins Wristband (cue faux outrage)

1 Boston Red Sox Greatest Moments in Boston Redsox DVD (with Easter Eggs)

Thanks Guster!

Guster. Please PM me your address. You are deserving of a return BOC.
Hey, did that sweater ever make it to you? Wife mailed it the day after Veterans Day (FYI, that's what you know as Armistice Day, Tanner).
F#$&. Yes it did. I meant to post here and thank you. My daughter laughed A LOT. Will attempt to post a picture or shot video at some point.

You also are owed a BOC. PM details.
:thumbup:
 
Officer Pete Malloy said:
shuke said:
Officer Pete Malloy said:
I'm not looking at that pic again until you all agree that the numbering should be:

Always start with the top row and go left to right.

1,2

3,4,5,6,7,8

EXAMPLE
no
Do you ever get tired of being wrong?
How many who's hottest polls have you started?

THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.
Got me there.

Remind me again how many times you won on Jeopardy?
Good logic here.

 
Officer Pete Malloy said:
shuke said:
Officer Pete Malloy said:
I'm not looking at that pic again until you all agree that the numbering should be:

Always start with the top row and go left to right.

1,2

3,4,5,6,7,8

EXAMPLE
no
Do you ever get tired of being wrong?
How many who's hottest polls have you started?

THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.
Got me there.

Remind me again how many times you won on Jeopardy?
Good logic here.
About as logical as your asinine numbering system.

 
I don't really have time to keep up with everything today, so will someone pm a link to the post that explains the duck?

I'm having two thanksgivings--neither with my family. one is actually on thanksgiving day.

having my daughter full time means I need to find babysitters, pronto. I've lined someone up to spend the night with her when I go to pearl jam dec. 6, but I have two company christmas parties, a 40th birthday and some evening client meetings all in the next three weeks.

if I get a nanny I don't have to marry her, right?

 
Yeah well....you were knee deep in hotter than Harmon uvula at that point I'm sure.
You a big uvula and adnoids kind of guy?
I thought the uvula was something female plumbing related. Sure is spelled that way...
No. You are thinking of the vuvuzela.
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

 
Officer Pete Malloy said:
shuke said:
Officer Pete Malloy said:
I'm not looking at that pic again until you all agree that the numbering should be:

Always start with the top row and go left to right.

1,2

3,4,5,6,7,8

EXAMPLE
no
Do you ever get tired of being wrong?
How many who's hottest polls have you started?

THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.
Got me there.

Remind me again how many times you won on Jeopardy?
Good logic here.
About as logical as your asinine numbering system.
You mean the one we've been using here since the start of the millennium? OK.

 
Officer Pete Malloy said:
shuke said:
Officer Pete Malloy said:
I'm not looking at that pic again until you all agree that the numbering should be:

Always start with the top row and go left to right.

1,2

3,4,5,6,7,8

EXAMPLE
no
Do you ever get tired of being wrong?
How many who's hottest polls have you started?

THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.
Got me there.

Remind me again how many times you won on Jeopardy?
Good logic here.
About as logical as your asinine numbering system.
You mean the one we've been using here since the start of the millennium? OK.
Doesn't mean it's right. You know what people also did for a long time that they didn't have a problem with? Slavery.

Hope you're proud of yourself.

 

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