The Task At Hand

             Online side jobs, that’s what I call them. This is where people pay you to complete a task for them out of there own pocket. These jobs are not hard to find either. All you have to do is type in your web browser, “make money online for doing tasks.” Then it will bring up a list of various websites where people offer tasks.

             This is a great idea for when a person is really busy to be able to pay someone else online to get the task at hand done for them. It is also a great idea for the individual who needs to make some extra loot to help out with their bills, or possibly get a gift for their kids. This is also a bad deal because some people try to take advantage of other people by paying them very little for a lot of work.

 Here is an example of one of the tasks that I saw. This person was willing to pay 3 dollars if you signed up to there website. Once you signed up, they wanted you to go to the Hits4you website and surf for 1000 credits for there site. Let’s take a look at this more closely. One ad takes 20 seconds to watch at the Hits4you website, and you get one credit, so that’s three credits for every minute. Ten minutes equals 30 credits, one hour equals 180 credits. So you are looking at about six hours just to make 3 dollars. Talk about slave labor. Does the internet need a minimum wage law so people won’t take advantage of other people? 

Here is another example of  more common task offers where people pay on average 2 to 5 cents for you to sign up to a website thus making you their referral.. Even that is low, you can go to paid to click sites like Clicksia (pays 10 to 15 cents), and Scarlet Clicks which pays 15 cents for you to sign up for their offers. Sometimes people will tell you to click 25 ads if you want to get credit for the task or something to that effect. One should want to sign up for the offer to get credit. If you do not like the offer you should not sign up just to get a little money because you will just be waiting time in the long run. It is not worth the little amount of money for the time you have to put in, if you are never going to go back to that site the offer was for once completed.

All the tasks were not bad; some paid 4 to 5 dollars for you to write a 250 to 500 word article. If you are a good writer you could probably finish this in ten to twenty minutes. The only thing is if they don’t like the article they don’t have to pay you. Most likely if you are a good writer you are not going to be wasting your time in sites like this unless you are bored or just want to help someone out. If you are an average writer you can go to sites like text broker.com and they will pay you accordingly to how well your article is written. That way you know you are going to get paid something for your work.  

 Overall the people putting out these tasks can do other options to help out with the lack of pay they are giving for completing there tasks. They could pay some cash and also let the person who completed the task put a link on their website. Lots of people give out free e-books; this could be included in the deal along with some cash. They could also offer their services as a referral as well. The bottom line is there are lots of ways people can pay other people it doesn’t always have to be money.

Every one who is looking for a task to do needs to be careful too. Look around the website, and see if they have a forum. Check to see if there are any complaints about people not paying. Obviously if you find a bunch of complaints I would not use this website to do tasks. With any website that pays always check the Terms of Service and the FAQ’S that way you know what you are getting yourself into. Mostly just use common sense and everything should work out.