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Websites wherein you do mundane tasks for little pay
Shurakai
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I'm not sure of the technical term, but I think you guys might know what I am talking about.
Survey sites and the like.
For various reasons I won't get into, I have come to the conclusion that this type of work might be one of my only options to make some cash.
And so, Denizens, I ask you:
What are the most reputable and well paying of these websites out there at the moment? They also have to be able to pay Canadians, 'cause thats where I'm sitting.
Survey sites and the like.
For various reasons I won't get into, I have come to the conclusion that this type of work might be one of my only options to make some cash.
And so, Denizens, I ask you:
What are the most reputable and well paying of these websites out there at the moment? They also have to be able to pay Canadians, 'cause thats where I'm sitting.
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You're not going to make rent doing this, you're gonna have to get a real job.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
Some people have said that you can make a pithy amount of money writing articles for Associated Content.
And just to be clear, I'm not trying to make rent with the money I make. I'm in college and have a student loan, I'm really just looking for a way to supplement my income and maybe be able to buy a couple new games this fall and spend a little more than $200 a month on food (my current budget).
Home Inspection and Wind Mitigation
http://www.FairWindInspections.com/
This looks totally fake, but even if it isn't it's still US only...
You should be able to halve that food budget quite easily.
Like Klorgnum says, Amazon.
But the 'pay' is basically terrible. It's 'great' if you're able to do it whilst simultaneously doing another paid job, basically making an extra 1% per hour on top of a normal office salary where the IT department is too inept to shut down your side-line and your line manager is too inept to realise you're spending 90% of your time scraping emails for spammers.
Of course, it's not great. It's terrible and shit and honestly if you have time to do anything on Mechanical Turk your time would be much better invested finding a better paid job than your current job with a company who can afford to pay you more because they make sure their staff are using their time efficiently on the job they are hired to do. Basically what I'm saying is if you can work on Mechanical Turk, your employer is GOING OUT OF BUSINESS! YOUR LACK OF BUSY HOURS IS INDICATION OF A DEATH SPIRAL! BAIL OUT! BAIL OUT!
The middle men can afford to pay for the labour because they pay very, very little.
For the record (and sadly), it isn't. We've got commercials playing here pretty regularly, it's basically a random trivia hot line.
Could you donate plasma for money?
An individual can eat pretty healthy on $100 a month. Even if $100 is too low for you to function, $200 is quite high.
If I plan out my meals in advance and work meals around current deals, I can cook for two people, 3 meals a day, for $50/week. That's purely home-cooked meals, no fast-food, no processed ready-made garbage, etc.
It takes an hour or so of extra planning/shopping time a week, and I often go the lazy route and spend more, but if I can do that, you can certainly reduce a $200/mo food budget.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
But hey, a dollar is a dollar
Thanks guys, I think between Associated Content and Mechanical Turk I should be set.
"Oh cool, I can get some money for messing around on the internet."
"Yeah...but do you really want to research minutiae about ex CEOs of companies you've never heard of?"
"But I get paid for it."
"20 cents for fifteen minutes of work. That's less than a dollar an hour."
"..."
"Fuck it, I'll just go park some domains."
Well, I'm exaggerating, but not by much. You're about 100 times better off flipping burgers or pushing a broom somewhere.
I'm supporting this one in hearing that it's fairly trust worthy. But I have no idea if Canadians are allowed to do it or not.
What they do is send you a few emails a day. They are usually for stores like office depot, target and the like, when you open the email there is a link you can go to for the offer. Sometimes you get 5 points for just clicking on the link and don't have to buy anything. If you don't want to do it that day just delete them.
The other way is to log in and visit their site and select a store you want to shop at. In general you get 2 or 3 points per dollar spent. When I shop I also keep a tab open for retailmenot.com they have coupon codes for tons of stores, my favorite is when you can find free shipping.
When I first signed up I only clicked on the emails for the free 5 points because I was not doing any online shopping, and I could earn enough for $10 - $20 gift certificates in one year. Currently I do 90% of my shopping for the holidays online now and earn enough for $100 gift certificates in a year.
Yeah, but some of us hate to push the broom.