Make Money at Amazon Mechanical Turk

Anybody looking for something different in terms of online earning, or if you'd just like to see what kind of "work" gets posted at Amazon's Mechanical Turk ought to drop by and have a look around.

I was pretty active when it first came out, then it seemed every time I checked in, there were few if any HITS (individual "work" units) available. But I got an email from the the other day that reminded me to have a look, and there were heaps of different assignments available.

Most of the HITs pay between 2 and 10 cents each, and take anywhere from a few seconds to 5 or 10 minutes to finish. Some recent HITs I did included viewing blogs and providing keywords to describe them, and identifying road signs in photos. Some of it's fun at first, but a lot of it gets tedious pretty fast. But if you've got some time to kill, and want to kill it while making a bit of pocket change, the Mechanical Turk isn't a bad way to do it.

You can have your earnings transferred to your U.S. bank account, or to your Amazon.com gift certificate account. So far I've transferred about $20 to my Amazon account thanks to the Mechanical Turk