Cloudworkers

[LanaL]

Hi

Struggling financially right now with no further ways to budget. I have been having a look at various chat boards on different sites about different ways to make money ( cam work seems to be popular but I just can’t do that ) survey sites etc are too quite popular but I haven’t got the time for that as it’s a lot of different sites etc - I have signed up to a few. Nothing to sell .

I have seen a few mention cloud workers and some people saying they have made between £100-800 a month ( I don’t expect £800 to be regular that’s 8000 messages !! ) , depending on time they put in and I thought I could do this just sitting watching tv of an evening. It’s very low pay , 10p per message , but even if I did £100 / £200 in a month it’s still something to put towards Xmas !

So , my question is - anyone do this? How would it work with making sure it’s above board with Universal Credit? I know it would be a self employment and I would have to pay tax at the end of the year but with universal credit I’ve seen something about a minimum income floor - where they might just have it as you are earning a certain amount regardless of what you actually earn and I’ve seen posts of people on the universal credit sites where it’s like £1500 that they take as earnings - even if they don’t earn that - so it comes off the award ( not sure if £ for £ or 50p per £ ) . My worry is that maybe one month I put in loads of hours and make £500 for example and then they assume I make that each month - but it might not be , I work too so it might turn out I don’t have the time and I just go on here and there so I don’t want to have my universal credit reduced based on an amount I just don’t make . It is likely it might just end up being £50 or something . So in that sense I’m thinking would it even be worth it? If they just took into account what I actually earnt then it’s fine , if I made £50 from it in a month and my award was reduced by 50P per £1 of that I’m still up as I’ve still made £25 but if not and I have a minimum income floor then I’m just going to put myself in a worse situation.

Also - I’m aware of what it is , I know it’s dirty talk . When I weigh that up against being able to buy my children Christmas presents , I can deal with that x

I used to do psychic text messaging but, tbh, it’s died a death since Covid. It was 30p per text and before Covid, I’d look at my work queue and there would be thousands for the team to work through. After Covid, it dwindled and dwindled and some days the company would received under 100 texts! I don’t know if it’s different on the sex lines but it’s boring, tedious work, and I wouldn’t recommend it. I only did it because I was saving up for our wedding. DH and I would come home after work and turn into psychics for a couple of hours. That’s the other thing, people are paying £3.50 a text to talk to people who aren’t even psychic and have never even picked up a tarot deck. The industry is a con.