August £10 a day thread

[Otterses]

There's so much out there now ... but thought this list may be helpful again for new starters. Please add on anything you think might be useful for newer people

Appen/Lionbridge/Isoftstone- micro task or long term ‘project’ sites, work varies from rating ads, the effectiveness of search engines, and voice projects

[[https://www.lionbridge.com]]

[[https://teemwork.ai]]

neevo.definedcrowd.com/en-us/account/login/

Quidco/Topcashback/Boom25
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Trading 212/Freetrade

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ModSquad, Crisp Thinking - website and social media moderation work

[[https://www.crispthinking.com]]

[[https://modsquad.com]]

Utest, Testing Time, What users do - website testing

[[https://www.utest.com]]

[[https://whatusersdo.com]]

[[https://www.testingtime.com/en]]/

Market research - people for search, angelfish.

[[https://www.peopleforresearch.co.uk]]

[[https://www.angelfish-opinions.com]]

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I missed it! Grr, was doing a transcription task and clicked the second I'd finished my batch and it was already gone.

Aaaaaand.... it's a "No" from Rev.

Actually starting to think this isn't worth the bother.

I had a bath and missed it completely!

you didn't miss much guys. Lasted for about 20 mins. I was on laptop when email came

Shame. I quite like B*ne once you get into a rhythm. Hope we'll get a big batch soon. 🤞

I really need a huge kick up the arse, I've not kept up with it all throughout lockdown but would like to get back on track now I know that the DC will be soon back at school. Will free up a bit of time to hopefully get arse into gear.

Tasks are available on LB.

@Flube what job are you doing? I have nothing and it worries me a bit because I don't want to get kicked out for not doing anything, but there's nothing to do.

Internet safety assessor. @WonderTweek

@WonderTweek Have you been logging in to check for tasks? I don't always get the email alerts. If you've logged in at least and there's nothing then I don't think they will kick you.

@Rad2016 The info is listed on the project page (I wouldn't normally take that as gospel) but also someone from the project is answering questions in the project chat.

@Flube Thanks for your reply. I'm doing a different one, but I'm manically checking the hub multiple times a day because I really want to do the tasks, but there's nothing there. But we shall see! Maybe I'll drop them a message and just check. But it does seem that because of Covid etc all online work is really popular so I'm not surprised if there isn't enough work for everyone! I have seen another job on their site that sounds interesting so I might apply and see what happens.

@Sonmi451 Don't be too discouraged. It does seem like you have to do quite a bit of digging the first couple of months to find the right sites and get accepted to projects. I'm still trying to find proper project work so I can actually start making money. I have just started doing some training bits for Rev and they are so strict with everything so I think a lot of people don't pass the initial test. I've read that you can get kicked out really easily for minor mistakes, so I fully expect to finish my training, start my first actual job and get booted out. 😅 I am looking into other transcription sites though - I'll post links if I come across any good ones.

Thanks @WonderTweek.

I keep looking at LB but I can't see any active jobs, not sure if I'm looking at the right thing, it looks more like permanent positions that I'm in no way qualified for.

I had the same issue. Try this: careers.lionbridge.com/careers-at-lionbridge-ai/?_ga=2.242196802.1980088158.1597398101-432198249.1593648255 and then click "view all jobs". You should be able to search the jobs so you can check the languages and countries you are interested in.

@WonderTweek once you get to Revver level if you mess up and your metrics drop you do get a warning before they sack you. I'm just ending my warning period after making a couple of silly formatting mistakes which dropped things right down. It's been 12 weeks and they have checked almost every job I've done whereas not on a warning I was checked around 1/5.

Am I just really bad at transcription or is Rev very poorly paid when working out your hourly rate?

@ifuckarses I'm on captioning which I think is slightly higher pay than transcription but more time and work required. The hourly rate for me is pretty rubbish, I only do it if there's nothing else around and I fancy a change. I think you'd have to be a pretty fast typist and know the style guide very well to earn a decent rate.

@Tinging I'm qualified for both, but I'm only a rookie captioner so don't see many jobs. Might try to get my Revver status as I prefer it to transcription.

@ifuckarses

I have been with Rev about six months and like Tingling only do it when there isn't anything else and I fancy a break from Appen. The rates are poor so I just keep it ticking over.

Anyone else waiting on this month's potato invoice? I know it's within 10 days but seems particularly tight this month...

Uni, I haven't had one yet.

@Unihorn Just had mine come through

Mine came through minutes after that message

So did mine

My Crisp invoice was a bit more than I was expecting.