Gettin Started

So, about six weeks ago I was visiting my favorite gossip website when I came across a question, “What’s your side hustle?”

I had none so I decided to just read what everyone else was posting. I read post after post talking about micro jobs; something I’ve never heard of before. A few of the posters mention how much they were making and some even had referral links. The first part made me excited that I could make some money with no special skill while the latter made my spidey sense tingled and I immediately thought SCAM!!!

Overriding the spidey sense, I decided to check them out for myself. I figured a little research couldn’t hurt so I googled everything and dismissed any site that required me coming out of pocket; after all I was looking to make money not spend it. I was then left with Crowdsourcing sites: Amazon Mechanical Turk, Appen Butter Hill, ClickWorker and Lionbridge, Paid-To-Click (PTC) sites: CashCrate, Clickstar, FusionCash and Quickrewards and Mobile Apps: Field Agent, Gigwalk and Rewardable.

So far I’ve tried all of the above except Lionbrige, who turned down my application and Appen who I didn’t bother to apply to; still might do so in the future though. My experience with the others varies. I’ve made money from Clickworker, Field Agent, Gigwalk and Rewardable. Amazon Mechanical Turk suspended my account indefinitely five days in after running into a bad requester (more on that in a later post) and I haven’t reached the minimum cash out for the others.

All in all I'm enjoying this journey into micro-jobbing but I'm also still on the lookout for more micro jobs so if anyone knows any legitimate ones leave me a comment.