If you are looking for a great way to make money while in class, look no further than Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. This is a great idea that Amazon created that allows users to post odd jobs that need to be done, but that don’t suit a computer to do. For example: identifying what is in a picture.
These are very easy and quick jobs that humans do very well. So, Amazon created this site where users post the jobs, and other users fulfill them for a small price. The job range anywhere from $0.01 to $30.00 per job, or what Amazon calls a hit. Many of these jobs are very menial, but that is what makes them so easy to do while you’re in class.
How It Works
Users simply apply to the hit, do the job, hit submit, and they can get paid! You might be thinking, why on earth would I want to do a job for a penny!!?! Well, a penny does suck, but you would otherwise be sitting in class and not earning any money! Also, if you do a job that pays say $0.10, and that job takes you 2 minutes, you would earn about $3.00 per hour. While that is not a lot, it does add up, and some people also offer bonuses for providing great answers.
The Most Popular HITs
The most popular HITs (or jobs) on MTurk are ones that have you identify the picture. A common one is identify whether the picture is pornographic or not. This job typically pays $0.02 per HIT, but you can go through so many jobs at once, you can actually make a pretty good sum of money rather quickly.
Some other popular HIT types are data entry, or provide a description/summary. Once again, these are jobs that humans do much better than machines, and you can get paid while doing it.
So, if you want to make some easy money, check out Mechanical Turk!
Readers, have you ever used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk? What about other crowd sourcing platforms?
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Yes, I am agree with Robert. Amazon Mechanical turk is one of the best work place for students, house wives and those who want to earn money by sitting in their homes. Amazon Mechanical turk provides skilled as well as low end jobs for the workers. Human Intelligence Task (HIT) can be taken from their site and can be completed by sitting in a cafe or any where else. And the most important thing is that it is free to join and there is no membership fee, etc. I strongly recommend all the students to work for Mturk and earn some money.
Amazon Mechanical turk is one the best places to work online and to work from home. You easily earn $100- $300 in a month by working at your home. There are only two requirements to work on mechanical turk; A computer and internet connection. You can sign up in this site and it is free for all. Human intelligence Task (HIT) is posted by various requester on Mturk and anyone who has signed up as a worker can do these tasks. These tasks are combination of simple and difficult tasks. So start earning today by using Amazon Mechanical Turk.
A nice post Mr.Robert. I have experience with Amazon Mechanical Turk. Its one of the best source for the home makers and Students to earn from their home and be on their track with their usual work as well.
Really useful post. Cheers man!
i totally agree with robert. i used to see my friends doing all this work online and thought that they are fools working online.but when at the end of the month one of my friends showed me a 213$ check i went crazy.this is serious money for guys like us.i thought that i would give it a try and i opened an account and have been working after that.although i dont work much but i enjoy doing the HITs.this is FUN.
As a stay at home, I had to look into Mechanical Turk, and I’m so glad that I did!! Now, my family has extra money for the little things, and my husband has no idea that I’ve got a small savings account for Christmas presents set aside. Thanks, Mechanical Turk!
I couldn’t agree more. I have been using Amazon Mechanical Turk now three months and it has been both a fun an financy success. I have been “hitting” much but the earnings are pretty big too, atleast sometimes. I tell you, start today. Not tomorrow or next year, but today. Who wants to work in a boring job, when you can work at your computer, earning easy money! Start today, I say!
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I agree with this fact that this site serves for housewives, students and retired persons. You can make a comfortable way of earnings in your free time by working on variety of hits. sometimes, you might just collect few cents but never give up.Those cents may turn around as huge sum at some point of time. Those who are good in medical transcriptions and other similar transcriptions, can harvest bulk dollars in short piece of time. Start your hunting today! My wishes to all old and new turkers.
I have some experience with Mturk, and i agree that it is a great way to make some extra money. The best thing about this site is that it is completely free to join, and it is a completely secure site. One good feature about this is that you have the option to search for Hits that you want to do, depending upon how much they pay. So, if you only want to do Hits that pay a min of $0.25, you can search and get a list of those Hits.
This hit is very nice… it is useful to earn money at home….this is the best source for all…. I m so happy that I did….Thank you good job
Mturk is a good website to earn money. And we can choose our own jobs here. The jobs are separated with fixed dollars so we can choose our jobs as we know about our knowledge.
Yes,I agree completely.Even I’ve found this website as part of one of the gits on Mturk.Anyway I try to complete simple HITs but couldn’t make a huge amount yet.Can anybody suggest me which kind of HITs can help me making a huge amount.
Comment here only.I’ll read.
Thanks a lot for posting this.
Yeah, it’s a nice way to make some money, but the HITs usually pay very little. The $30 HITs you mention in your post are usually very complex and take hours, sometimes even days to complete, and they require lots of brain power, like writing a 3000 word text on some topic. I really have no time and brainpower to spend on doing those tasks. I think the rewards for the simpler HITs should be bigger, like $0.5 to answer a survey or something similar. And very often the simpler HITs are underpaid. I mean, $0.01 to answer a 3-4 page survey, I mean c’mon…
Hello there
I am student and i work for Mtuk.I need to agree with you on this post.This is the best option for earning money for students.I am glad i cam e across this site one year ago.It has helped me a lot.
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Indeed Amazon Mechanical Turk is a great place to make some extra cash in a very easy way.
Really Nice Article! I just recently heard and starting using MTurk. It is a great way for a student like myself to make some extra money. Thanks for sharing your insight!!
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