Making money whilst being busy,busy.

[busybusy]

So far so good with the websearching - not been rumbled yet. Can fit it in with the children and my evening job. Will be able to clock up more hours when school starts back.

Both my girls loving mystery shopping, though my 4 year old did query really loudly whilst we was on a mission "Is this the shop we are looking at in secret"

I had a travel agent one last week, I was querying a bogus holiday for my husband and I, no children (as per instruction) my 7 year old was sat there horrified, I could hear her brain asking why she doesn't get to come on holiday. But I couldn't explain before I went in, in case the 4 year old declared our real intent again.

 

[Jon]

Now THAT is commitment

I have had to make up all sorts of lies for mystery shopping before

Part of the job

 

[busybusy]

Since my last post £4 Amazon vouchers better off.
There is defo a keen mystery shopper near me. I've signed up to quite a few sites and he/she keeps bagging the local jobs before me.
I am not quick enough.

Still not been rumbled on web searching, I think first wage packet due soon. Not jinxing it so won't declare earnings until money is there and spendable.

 

[busybusy]

Milky bars are on me!!
Just had my first web searching cash. I had issues the first week and was on holiday for a week last month so didn't clock up as many hours as I could but still I am a little over £300 better offer.
The mystery shopping going slowly but since Sept 1st my bank is £26 better off (tasks done in August). I have deducted the cost of the meals and such like as I would not of visited where I shopped if the incentive wasn't there.

I hope this makes some sort of sense!!

 

[Jon]

Wow!!

£300 extra a month just from your web search work is fantastic!!

Well done!!

 

[queen81]

That's ace!

Who is the web searching work with?

 

[Skinnylatte]

Hi I just read your diary busybusy, well done you, whats websearching?

 

[busybusy]

Well thank you v.much folks.

Websearching is deciding how well the results of a web search match the original query. I have only been doing it 6 weeks but I think that there are people on this forum that have been doing it longer that could give more detail.
A crude example.
Q. What time is the first train to London from Brum.
A. A recipe for cheesecake.
Well that is rubbish so you can mark it as such.
But it gets tricky when the result sort of answers the query. The rules seem subjective yet at the same time arbitrary.

This contract I am on will last at max to end of the year, I have to work X hours a week, answer X queries an hour and get X of them right. I am fully expecting to be sacked off so seeing every extra hour worked as a bonus. The initial recruitment takes about 10-15 unpaid hours.
The first company I tried to get in with, I didn't so that was 2 days of my life I am not getting back.
But I can log on and do half and hour here and there so that is fab, but it is a bit of a brain drain.

I am not expert but I understand that the following companies recruit websearchers with vacancies opening and closing all the time.
Appen, Lionbridge, Leapforce and Isoftstone

Here is a link to more details.
http://www.themoneyshed.co.uk/index.php?topic=1116.0

 

[busybusy]

So plan B, needs to be thought about and drawn up.

Decided secret shopping doesn't suit me so that is on the back burner.
I did it years ago and the fees have decreased loads in the interim.

Feel like a total quitter but there is so little near me, even though I signed up with loads. I have done the one off local jobs.
I am not lazy, well don't think I am, but so much is wanted for a couple of quid. Maybe that is the economist in me but the cost/benefit analysis of 90% of the tasks concludes that they aren't worth it.
Reading the thread on the green site has concreted it for me.
Though will keep up with one I the companies, but I do think I have exhausted the local tasks also so not much steam left in that.

 

[Jon]

Have you thought about Gapbusters?

They pay pretty heavy premiums for doing the golden arches etc..

 

[busybusy]

can't comment

 

[Jon]

can't comment

Well they are the ones to stay with then

 

[busybusy]

Ummmm
Time + having to get in a car + fitting time slot in with my family + unhealthy food = worth it?

 

[Jon]

well having to use in car you would factor into your tax expenses each year

I do get what you are saying if it doesn't fit in with your lifestyle though

 

[busybusy]

Well end of the month and I thought I would update my earnings.
My total vouchers and hard cash (excluding web searching, which was £300) is just over £100. I am fairly impressed as the majority was effortless, Swagbucks, What Users Do etc.

We have also had some very nice family meals that have been reimbursed via mystery shopping, hopefully these opportunities will continue as my husband and kids love them, but then they don't have to complete the post shop review!!

Following my decision to abandon chasing unhealthy mystery shopping jobs I have been messed around a bit, maybe I have mystical powers which sensed something in the air, but I think more likely coincidence.

Still not been rumbled on the web searching, but that is only running until the end of the year at the most.

 

[busybusy]

Got the can't be bothered's today. Web evaluation requires thinking which is beyond me today.

Been clicking on Instagc loads over the last few days and a few of the videos can be played and credited lots and lots and lots. I just have it running in the background while I peruse stuff to spend my husbands cash on.
My husband thinks Instagc is a waste of my time. I say haha I have cashed in £4 of amazon vouchers in a week for zero effort, bring it on.


http://www.instagc.com/345713

 

[busybusy]

Month going well so and only on day two!

Last months web searching will pay me around £440.
£5 amazon from swagbucks today
£2 amazon Instagc yesterday
£10 argos in the post from consumer pulse
Been picked to trial some anti aging eye creams - very chuffed about this one, though hope my eyes don't explode or something equally terrible.
£10 voucher in the post towards school shoes, sent a moody email about a gem falling off them on the first day. Though I was only cross as my 7 year old was moaning at me about not having super glue in the house.
Sent a cross 5th chase up email to a mystery shopping company who have now agreed to pay me. Still not doing anymore shops though as they have 'wronged' me.
£125 Sainsbury voucher from a broadband sign up, that is my husband diesel sorted for a few fill ups.
£5 reward from a high street bank from funding my account. If any fellow shedders watched Bagpuss as a youth and can remember the one with the mouse and the biscuit. Well that is what I do, it is the same money going in and out rather than new money.

Nearly at £600 but some of these are one off and I am so so mindful that the websearch only has a few months left.

 

[busybusy]

October finished well. About £700 better off.

But only 2 months web searching left then I am back to surveys, PTC sites and dribs and drabs.

Having a bit of a why did I give up a 'real' job to look after children moment, which of course is an 'unreal' job. I have just deleted a big moan-a-thon post about how being a mum is a thankless task, moaned about how rubbish that my superiors at my offline job are loads younger than me. Moaned about the only offline jobs that I can fit round a family are rubbish hours and rubbish pay. Moaned about how I am not the only person in the world to feel like this. MOAN MOAN MOAN.

On a positive note I am already £6.50 in Amazon vouchers better off this month. YAY!!!

 

[Jon]

October finished well. About £700 better off.

But only 2 months web searching left then I am back to surveys, PTC sites and dribs and drabs.

Having a bit of a why did I give up a 'real' job to look after children moment, which of course is an 'unreal' job. I have just deleted a big moan-a-thon post about how being a mum is a thankless task, moaned about how rubbish that my superiors at my offline job are loads younger than me. Moaned about the only offline jobs that I can fit round a family are rubbish hours and rubbish pay. Moaned about how I am not the only person in the world to feel like this. MOAN MOAN MOAN.

On a positive note I am already £6.50 in Amazon vouchers better off this month. YAY!!!

Leapforce says Hi!!!


Moan all you want, you are free to express yourself on here.


I manage ONLY people that are older than me at work! - People are all over the place age wise where I work in terms of where they sit in the structure.

 

[busybusy]

I haven't big issue with age really, but I am old enough to have given birth to some of them, and they are in charge of me!!

Makes me feel very very old, which to them I am. I once had one of the "youths" explain facebook to me.