A couple of years ago, I tried a work at home program called Mechanical Turk, or MTurk, through Amazon.com. I blogged about it at mymturkexperience and finished with a fairly unfavorable opinion.
I never thought it was an outright scam. Certainly Amazon's participation in it and the part they directly control is on the up and up. But, a worker or "turker" is actually working for a third party, a "requester". Even then, I'd say that most requesters are legitimate. It's just that there are too many jobs, called "HITs", that expect a turker to do 10 minutes work for a penny. (just an example)
But, as I talked about when I broke my personal ban on surveys I found a helpful forum (actually a sub-reddit) called HitsWorthTurkingFor that helped me find HITs that actually pay a decent amount.
So, I have revisited my opinion on MTurk and continue to blog about my experience there.
I think I earned as much yesterday as I had in my entire MTurk experience leading up to it.
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