No motivation to do surveys..

@maezee (41997)
United States
January 18, 2010 4:36pm CST
Do you ever feel this way? What's a solution for it? I've been totally UN-motivated (not a word..well, it is now!) lately to make money on the many online paid survey sites I'm a member of. What's up with this? I've been in a six-month (or so) fix and I can't seem to get out of it. I just don't seem to have the patience and motivation to do surveys at this point. Does anyone else feel this way?
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@echomonster (2226)
• Greenwood, Mississippi
19 Jan 10
It happens to me from time to time, but I've never had a six month funk. Let's face it: the life of the survey taker isn't as glamorous as you might think. Most of the time you don't qualify for the surveys you try to do, and when you do qualify sometimes the surveys aren't that interesting and/or take way too long. When I get in an anti-survey funk, the emails just accumulate in my inbox until the surveys are mostly filled up. I delete them all and then just start anew...I usually get motivated again after taking a survey that's really interesting and rewards me well for my time. Maybe you should just take a break and ignore your emails from survey companies for a while.
@uath13 (8192)
• United States
19 Jan 10
I pretty much gave up on them. Usually I'd fill out a couple pages of information just to be told I didn't qualify. Thanks a lot! I'm better off spending my time myloting.
@jjstream (313)
• United States
19 Jan 10
No I don't. Doing surveys online is fun for me. The key to successfully complete them is to respond to the e-mail invites that they sent you as quickly as possible for you to qualify.
@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
19 Jan 10
The ones I don't have any motivation to do are the ones that only give you a sweepstakes entry to do the survey. I have a bunch of those sitting in my inbox. Sometimes, it is also frustrating when you get a good one, that paid money, and you get disqualified at the preliminary questions. Ugh!
@ltruong (128)
• Australia
18 Jan 10
Yes I do feel this way. I signed up for over 15 sites but I can't even be bothered to do the surveys. I think because it takes so long to do them and then you get rewards points instead of being rewarded straight away. The $5-$75 surveys don't ever seem to come to me either so I get very lazy.