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Cha-Cha-Cha-CHING!
Oct. 4th, 2006 01:32 amWell, at the moment I've earned $56.81 in searching and training fees, $11.67 in 10% bonuses from my invitees, for a total of $68.38 since Friday morning. Not bad, really. Now, granted, that's at a rate of $5 an hour, and only for an hour of actual searching, not availability. Definitely far below minimum wage.
But on the other hand, it doesn't feel like working. As someone I invited today put it, it's really a lot like a game, complete with "levelling up." Start out Apprentice, level up to Pro, level up to Master and add more key words. And if you can level up to Elite, you get double the money. It really is like an Internet trivia game that pays cash prizes.
In a way it kind of reminds me of some of the stuff in Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End. The way that everyone, even school kids, can sell their expertise on the Internet and get paid for it. Fun.
Now we just have to see if the ad-supported model can bring in enough funds that it can survive. I doubt it, but we'll see.
Alas, they finally shut down the invite-sending service, only two days after they said they were going to. I wonder if it will still be up on Thursday, and if it is whether I'll still be able to send invitations. They're probably fixing the bug that allowed people to send them out far in excess of the 8-at-a-time limitation that it's supposed to have. Oh well; I did well enough for myself over the past few days that I can't really complain.
Tomorrow I have an interview on campus for Walgreens management training (heh...if they want me, I wonder if it would really be worthwhile to do it. I've been in retail once, that was enough!) and then 4 hours of temp work Wed, Thurs, and Friday nights doing phone surveys for $8 an hour—my first temping job. Between that and ChaCha, I'll certainly make more than my unemployment check would have provided, which is a good thing.
Best get to bed now.
But on the other hand, it doesn't feel like working. As someone I invited today put it, it's really a lot like a game, complete with "levelling up." Start out Apprentice, level up to Pro, level up to Master and add more key words. And if you can level up to Elite, you get double the money. It really is like an Internet trivia game that pays cash prizes.
In a way it kind of reminds me of some of the stuff in Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End. The way that everyone, even school kids, can sell their expertise on the Internet and get paid for it. Fun.
Now we just have to see if the ad-supported model can bring in enough funds that it can survive. I doubt it, but we'll see.
Alas, they finally shut down the invite-sending service, only two days after they said they were going to. I wonder if it will still be up on Thursday, and if it is whether I'll still be able to send invitations. They're probably fixing the bug that allowed people to send them out far in excess of the 8-at-a-time limitation that it's supposed to have. Oh well; I did well enough for myself over the past few days that I can't really complain.
Tomorrow I have an interview on campus for Walgreens management training (heh...if they want me, I wonder if it would really be worthwhile to do it. I've been in retail once, that was enough!) and then 4 hours of temp work Wed, Thurs, and Friday nights doing phone surveys for $8 an hour—my first temping job. Between that and ChaCha, I'll certainly make more than my unemployment check would have provided, which is a good thing.
Best get to bed now.
