Amazon Mechanical Turk review

Last year when i brought my laptop and got internet connection, i thought of making some spare money off it during my leisure time. I googled about work from home jobs and found lot's of them. I was sceptical about most of them as many asked for money upfront before starting any work. It's better to stay away from these spammers who will take your money and disappear. I did exhaustive research and went to many reviews, blogs and user opinions until i stumbled upon the website www.mturk.com(Amazon Mechanical Turk).

I went through that website and thought of giving it a go. The main reason i chose to work with mturk is that they were offering to pay in Indian rupees but still i was sceptical as i never had any experience of working online and was not sure whether they will pay me and also i had to invest my spare time.

Mturk is a concept called crowdsourcing where thousands of simple tasks are listed by many companies and individuals. These tasks are called HIT's(Human Intelligent Tasks) as computer cannot perform them automatically but require human intelligence. HIT's vary from identifying whether the images are obscene to transcription to writing short stories. The payment starts from 1 cents(US) a HIT and the maximum i have earned on a single HIT is $15.Most of the work at Mturk is boring and straight forward and doesn't require any special skills, however i found skills like rewriting sentences and translating from English to Hindi interesting and i work on them most of the time. Click on the below mention to enlarge and see sample HIT's.




After working on HIT's your earnings will get accumulate in mturk account. One can withdraw this amount or can do some shopping at amazon.com. For Indian nationals mturk provides an option to withdraw money in Indian rupees. For this user have to scan either his PAN card or Driving license and send it to them. They will promptly dispatch cheque to the address that is mentioned while registering. Cheque will reach within 15 days after the withdraw money request is raised. I myself has withdraw money twice and got Citibank cheques payable at all branches in India.



To conclude Mturk is a good option if you are watching TV and parallely working on some HIT's which needs no intelligence but can get you some spare money. Devoting most of your time is not advisable as the pay is very less.