In the middle of trying to rub three pennies together from this blog, still doing Mechanical Turking, tutoring, and hitting the pavement for a regular Joe job, I somehow started to do a Cha-Cha dance. As it turns out, all those years of gathering what my dad would call "disposable knowledge" have paid off. Between discussion questions and checkpoints, Ms. Williams is raking in a little cheese.
I've dabbled in writing an e-book about my exploits with Mechanical Turking. If everyone else is churning out e-books about making money online, why can't I? I'd like to provide a little truth on my own story of what works and what doesn't. I put that on hold one day when I got a callback from Cha-Cha. I heard about this website/company indirectly through some article and tossed it in the back of my investigation list. I didn't think I was smart enough to sit down and answer other people's questions. I thought it took a huge brain to dish out that kind of knowledge. Once I came back to investigate Cha-Cha, I realized how I underestimated my own ability to help other people.
I'm starting out as a grunt on Cha-Cha aka, a Vetter. I started on the 10th of last month. I've been coming back during idle periods between staying up late at night and waiting for my hair to dry in the middle of the afternoon. I decided to treat the "job" (they don't want anyone claiming it as a job on federal tax forms) like I treated my Turking experience--anytime I had to myself with nothing else in mind, I made a penny. The pennies became dollars and the dollars fattened my pockets a little bit. A little bit, mind you. This isn't some huge get rich quick thing. Vetters get paid a bloomin' penny for every single question they answer. I wouldn't recommend trying to make some kind of work at home job from this.
The funny part about being a guide happens to be the spam and troll-like questions I get from time to time. We're talkin' unfriendable type gold about crotches, sex, candy in strange places, and basic toilet humor. I know these questions aren't real because people love to abuse Cha-Cha like we're the Cleverbot or AOL's SmarterChild. We have to actually train to become Vetters to answer people's questions. Yes, there's actually a "school", there's testing, and you can fail the test and not get hired. Cha-Cha is serious biz, lol. Training is about 40 minutes long and isn't as straightforward as you'd think. As every Vetter is rated on their answers, it's very possible to get your account terminated if you're under the 95% rating. 3 strikes and yer out.
There's at least 30-40 different Cha-Cha ranks with a multitude of payment perks and whatnot. Despite my opinions about making it a job, a lot of people on the "employee" message boards claim they've made a lot of money Cha-Chaing. While I'm sure it's true, I don't want to make that claim just yet. Unlike Mechanical Turking, the payments do not vary as a Vetter. It's a slow and steady cent for every answer. So far I have....*drumroll*
Yup, that's it. Just enough for me to pig out at Wallgreen's or get a combination dinner at Pizza Bella's. Chumpo change-o. Don't get me wrong, I know if I whittle away at it with my usual hard working persona, I can easily come out with about thirty or forty dollars. But since I have to stretch my time out between school and a life, I usually have enough time to make a dollar or two a day. Like I said, it's just enough to stuff a ten or twenty into my savings until these applications produce gold. Hey, it's something to do. If I can give love advice or constructive pointers to somebody out there who's really looking, it's not such a bad exchange.
As for yours truly, I say to those with jobs to hold on to 'em and feel blessed every day that you have that job. The last one I had was pure heck and I gave up up out of stress, forgetting how hard it was to get THAT job. Luckily while being between jobs, I've been able to use my skills in other areas to continue to finance myself. Tippin' on the tightrope is not easy.
(Seriously though, don't go on Cha-Cha and think it's a job and then get disappointed.)
I've dabbled in writing an e-book about my exploits with Mechanical Turking. If everyone else is churning out e-books about making money online, why can't I? I'd like to provide a little truth on my own story of what works and what doesn't. I put that on hold one day when I got a callback from Cha-Cha. I heard about this website/company indirectly through some article and tossed it in the back of my investigation list. I didn't think I was smart enough to sit down and answer other people's questions. I thought it took a huge brain to dish out that kind of knowledge. Once I came back to investigate Cha-Cha, I realized how I underestimated my own ability to help other people.
I'm starting out as a grunt on Cha-Cha aka, a Vetter. I started on the 10th of last month. I've been coming back during idle periods between staying up late at night and waiting for my hair to dry in the middle of the afternoon. I decided to treat the "job" (they don't want anyone claiming it as a job on federal tax forms) like I treated my Turking experience--anytime I had to myself with nothing else in mind, I made a penny. The pennies became dollars and the dollars fattened my pockets a little bit. A little bit, mind you. This isn't some huge get rich quick thing. Vetters get paid a bloomin' penny for every single question they answer. I wouldn't recommend trying to make some kind of work at home job from this.
The funny part about being a guide happens to be the spam and troll-like questions I get from time to time. We're talkin' unfriendable type gold about crotches, sex, candy in strange places, and basic toilet humor. I know these questions aren't real because people love to abuse Cha-Cha like we're the Cleverbot or AOL's SmarterChild. We have to actually train to become Vetters to answer people's questions. Yes, there's actually a "school", there's testing, and you can fail the test and not get hired. Cha-Cha is serious biz, lol. Training is about 40 minutes long and isn't as straightforward as you'd think. As every Vetter is rated on their answers, it's very possible to get your account terminated if you're under the 95% rating. 3 strikes and yer out.
There's at least 30-40 different Cha-Cha ranks with a multitude of payment perks and whatnot. Despite my opinions about making it a job, a lot of people on the "employee" message boards claim they've made a lot of money Cha-Chaing. While I'm sure it's true, I don't want to make that claim just yet. Unlike Mechanical Turking, the payments do not vary as a Vetter. It's a slow and steady cent for every answer. So far I have....*drumroll*
$11.82
Yup, that's it. Just enough for me to pig out at Wallgreen's or get a combination dinner at Pizza Bella's. Chumpo change-o. Don't get me wrong, I know if I whittle away at it with my usual hard working persona, I can easily come out with about thirty or forty dollars. But since I have to stretch my time out between school and a life, I usually have enough time to make a dollar or two a day. Like I said, it's just enough to stuff a ten or twenty into my savings until these applications produce gold. Hey, it's something to do. If I can give love advice or constructive pointers to somebody out there who's really looking, it's not such a bad exchange.
As for yours truly, I say to those with jobs to hold on to 'em and feel blessed every day that you have that job. The last one I had was pure heck and I gave up up out of stress, forgetting how hard it was to get THAT job. Luckily while being between jobs, I've been able to use my skills in other areas to continue to finance myself. Tippin' on the tightrope is not easy.
(Seriously though, don't go on Cha-Cha and think it's a job and then get disappointed.)