04/01 - Silly Sunday!

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Guilty as charged as the typical looking dark haired guy, but it didn't seem like too many people around here actually had pictures of themselves so I went incognito :)

Also accurate that the time is limited - have to go to the cube grind 7-4 during the week :(
yea, I leave the house at 8am and come back about 8-8:30pm on weekdays.
I have my kid on weekends, usually, so I limit my time there as well.
for me, mturk has been a useful additional source of money, even though I get about 2 hours per day.
even so, I'd rather have a crappy $50 week where I selected only the best, the most delectable, prime hits that I can
instead of 6 hours per day cramping my hands typing out little words and numbers, just to make an extra $30 that week.

plus, grinding out on lower wages will burn you out faster

you run the hitfinder/hitscraper, right?
you use more than one monitor?

People do post their images in the face thread though
 
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Most of the time they post in two hour batches. These are Pacific times, so adjust for your time zone: roughish 6-8 am, 12-2pm, 6-8 pm. I think they post middle of the night, too? I'm not up then.

I can generally catch 75-100 during those times, and that's doing them haphazardly in between cooking breakfasts, lunches and dinners. And with captchas as I don't have Masters, yet.

If you can work during those times, that can help boost numbers and make it so you don't ever have to consider a hit like p9r :)
Yep 3-5am eastern most nights also :headwall:
 

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Guilty as charged as the typical looking dark haired guy, but it didn't seem like too many people around here actually had pictures of themselves so I went incognito :)

Also accurate that the time is limited - have to go to the cube grind 7-4 during the week :(
Many of us do have pics up in the Faces thread, so we aren't all that incognito, lol. I just don't like staring at myself as I'm old as fuck and about 1/3 as good looking as I used to be so I prefer to pretend in my head that I'm still that hot. Therefore, I use cute cats as my avis, lol, and can pretend I still look 28.

I also cube grind all week long, I can do Z's before work, on lunch (I go home for lunch) and after work. And just to encourage you, with a full time cube job I pulled in over $500 turking in March. A lot thanks to Z's though.
 

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I played some WoW. I went over to my mom's and had some ham. It's been a good day. Not a productive day, but a good day. How's everyone?
 

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So, fits the patter of 12-2 am my time.

I'll remember that next time I wake up in a cold sweat for no damn reason and can't get back to sleep. Might as well do .05 hits.
Oh, I thought you were saying Z's were the reason you'd wake in a cold sweat, which I totally understand
 

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Any time I hear my queue full of Z's I get up for a bit.
 
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Oh, I thought you were saying Z's were the reason you'd wake in a cold sweat, which I totally understand
the old ones, I would get so anxious after about half an hour, since I would always feel like I'm not going fast enough
people like LowCalCalzone @LowCalCalzone would already have maxxed out at 215 when I'm still on number 6..
 

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Oh, I thought you were saying Z's were the reason you'd wake in a cold sweat, which I totally understand
In the spirit of full disclosure...I have, on more than one occasion, not been able to sleep in past 6:15 because I can FEEL them posting and I KNOW I'm missing out on that sweet, sweet easy money. So I get out of bed and do the damn things (or, if the laptop is already in my bedroom, stay in bed and do the damn things).
 

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the old ones, I would get so anxious after about half an hour, since I would always feel like I'm not going fast enough
people like LowCalCalzone @LowCalCalzone would already have maxxed out at 215 when I'm still on number 6..
That was me, too, due to the dumb throttling they had. Which I think is creeping back in as I'm not able to keep my queue full of these new ones like I was a couple of weeks ago.

I remember people maxing out and I was thrilled if I caught 31 of them.
 
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yea, I leave the house at 8am and come back about 8-8:30pm on weekdays.
I have my kid on weekends, usually, so I limit my time there as well.
for me, mturk has been a useful additional source of money, even though I get about 2 hours per day.
even so, I'd rather have a crappy $50 week where I selected only the best, the most delectable, prime hits that I can
instead of 6 hours per day cramping my hands typing out little words and numbers, just to make an extra $30 that week.

plus, grinding out on lower wages will burn you out faster

you run the hitfinder/hitscraper, right?
you use more than one monitor?

People do post their images in the face thread though
Yeah, I completely get what you're saying about not doing hits like those, and I've been pretty happy to be making 50-100 weekly so far.

I started using PandaCrazy just to catch hits, then I got MTS but haven't really been able to figure out how to use it very well. Not sure about hitscraper, and for now I'm only working with one monitor, but will be setting up another shortly.
 
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Yeah, I completely get what you're saying about not doing hits like those, and I've been pretty happy to be making 50-100 weekly so far.

I started using PandaCrazy just to catch hits, then I got MTS but haven't really been able to figure out how to use it very well. Not sure about hitscraper, and for now I'm only working with one monitor, but will be setting up another shortly.
so you are using the hitfinder, within MTS right?
 
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Yeah, I completely get what you're saying about not doing hits like those, and I've been pretty happy to be making 50-100 weekly so far.

I started using PandaCrazy just to catch hits, then I got MTS but haven't really been able to figure out how to use it very well. Not sure about hitscraper, and for now I'm only working with one monitor, but will be setting up another shortly.
Have you read through this, for info about MTS and how to use it? https://github.com/Kadauchi/mturk-suite/wiki
 

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Yeah, I completely get what you're saying about not doing hits like those, and I've been pretty happy to be making 50-100 weekly so far.

I started using PandaCrazy just to catch hits, then I got MTS but haven't really been able to figure out how to use it very well. Not sure about hitscraper, and for now I'm only working with one monitor, but will be setting up another shortly.
MTS Hitfinder is your best friend. Use the include list. I get alerted to all sorts of hits I would miss without it. Plus, set up pandas in PC for hits that post throughout the day. Hit finder will start showing you which hits these are and you can add them easily using the PC helper script.
 

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Has today been a generally slow day? I only have $15 today.
 
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