<prompt> Human: Almost every time I see a post for someone requesting a way to earn some extra money to cover some bills there are a half dozen people suggesting that they sign up for Amazon Mechanical Turk and they can earn a couple hundred a month.This is completely untrue and people that never tried this website need to stop suggesting it. It is an utter waste of someones time. A few years ago i found myself at home unable to find work and unable to get out and look for work in a brick and mortar setting. It was due to health problems with a family member and I was pretty desperate to earn some money.I will tell you what things have gone back to this and right now I am going through the same thing and when I see people suggest Mechanical Turk i can only believe they never tried it.First of all you have to understand that much of the work in the Hits they give you is not really related to honest work. Much of it is psychological profiling and testing and as you will see some of it is not even available to you because they are targeting very specific groups. More so you will find that the hits that are available often pay about 10 cents US or less and take you 15 minutes or so to perform. Many are looking at someones website to find mistakes, some are looking at images and sorting them and others are just so random you cant really understand why anyone wants this stuff done.. but heck if you can fork out 5 and have 500 of these things going does it matter?So my experience is very poor with MTurkI do understand though that some people .. very very few people that to private work through MTurk do get paid a bit more. You have to be pre-approved to do this work. Its not open to everyone and the few hits of this type that I was approved for to do some writing were unjustifiably difficult to get paid for.My earnings back a couple yearsExamples of Hits you can earn.. look how little they pay 3 cents for 20 minutes1 cent for 5 minutesHighest Paid Hits are very unique .. and they are asking you to do stuff thats not quite on the up and up.. asking you to look for movies and use your internet account .. be on a specific cable provider.. then show them a screenshot of the movie.. wthyou just can not earn money on Mechanical Turkhow are you going to spend 10 minutes earning 3 cents? this is worse than what they pay people in India.. these hits are probably indian companies hiring american workers that they put out of work to do their jobs for pennies...I mean really .. more than happy to make money helping companies this way but its got to pay more than 10 cents an hour...The highest paid hits are transcriptions of 2 hour movies.. wow thats a ton of work for 35by the second page all of the hits that are sorted high to low are down in the sub 1 area and taking an hour or much longer... example one is.. post 10 videos of yourself.. we will pay you 75cents... ok but then you also have a high probability of having these hits rejected. or reused in ways you dont want to think about.. from my experience Mechanical Turk is not a honest place to earn any amount of extra cash.. sure you might make something and I did after months I made like 20 but it is such an utter waste of your time.. you would be better off just sleeping or cleaning your home or anything more productive than trying to earn money on this site.that is my experience and i really wish it wasnt.PLEASE STOP SUGGESTING THIS SITE FOR PEOPLE IN FINANCIAL NEED.. YOU CAN NOT EARN ANYTHING SUBSTANTIAL FROM IT...You would be better off putting up a Blog about your dog and throwing Adsense ads on it... honestlyAssistant: ITT: MTurk didnt meet OPs possibly unrealistic expectations so obviously its not for anyone. I think thats how that usually works.Human: what is unrealistic ? If you could earn 3 an hour that would be fine.. but 30 cents an hour is not realistic to anyone.. at 30cents an hour there are plenty of things you could be doing in your life that are more beneficial even if that is just exercising or mending your clothes .. or cleaning your home.. or... looking for work that pays MORE THAN 30CENTS AN HOURgees  <response>: 30 cents an hour is not realistic to anyoneYouve gotta stop lying, man. Nobody is saying you can make crazy good money on MTurk, but not even your OP claims 30 cents an hour. Also, the 30 cents for 20 minutes is a misrepresentation. 20 minutes is just the time allotted, not the time it actually takes to complete the task. You know this is true, because youve done the hits. Hit providers allot way more time than is actually needed usually, because they know people doing these probably have other things going ondistractions, etc. 