cluelle

@cluelle (132)

Canada • Age 31

Joined myLot 12 years ago

wealthworththewait.blogspot.ca

Discussions (29)

cluelle's Discussions

Burnout on Fiverr and sorting one's life out...

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 22 Apr 13

This is more of a life thing than a Fiverr thing, so it's not in the money discussions:). So, last year I finally got Paypal, tried out Mturk, learned about transcription. This was wonderful since, because of very stupid and...

life priorities

transcription burnout

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Signed up Appenscribe last night. Anyone worked for them?

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 27 Jan 13

I finally downloaded the Mozilla Firefox browser and Flash so I could hopefully take on work with an Australian transcriptin company called Appenscribe. Has anyone worked for them, have any review of their treatment of workers or...

appenscribe

transcription

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It's A Cheese Slice With Guacamole! I love the South Beach diet.

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 1 Jan 13

I've never liked "diet-diets"; I know that food made from whole ingredients is generally good, and having too much of it is my real problem. Not that that stopped me from developing bad habits through high school to the present....

healthy eating

natural antidepressant

south beach diet

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What do you think of people who sell testimonial services?

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 29 Dec 12

I've mentioned that I use Fiverr before, and one aspect of the site that drives me crazy is the number of people offering "natural, attractive, bilingual" testimonies. I know times are hard and we all want to make (four) bucks as...

bad practices

dishonesty

testimonials

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Baldur's Gate Drama! (But I Still Love You, BG)

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 28 Dec 12

So I first played Baldur's Gate when I was seven or so, and even then was so excited that there was a story-driven game based on D&D (which I never got to play with a proper group because I was a loner child, yada-yada), and I...

gamedog

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I'm going to post some better things in "life", now.

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 28 Dec 12

I'm not in a good emotional place when I write about *him*. I hope I'm a better judge of character than to date or marry a person with those traits I loathe the most, but still I know his good points, and I know how hard it is for...

deal with life

find some good

Agh, he's threatening to kick me out for disagreeing with him... again.

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 24 Dec 12

This just isn't right. Entire adolescence: "You think the world revolves around you because you're a teenager." First year of being twenty: "You think you're so smart because you're a know-it-all young adult." Father's always...

ridiculous father

stressful family environment

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How To Find Scams on MTurk

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 23 Dec 12

I just found this EHow article that explains much more succinctly than I can how to look out for scams on MTurk, but also WHY these things you see are scams. I'm not linked to this article in any way, so I hope the link is allowed...

detecting scams

mturk

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How Could I Enter Into Online Proofreading?

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 23 Dec 12

I'm just scratching the surface of the online proofreading business, but my first impression is that this is a much more difficult field to enter. I was hoping that somebody here might have advice for low-cost, accredited...

online proofreading

opportunities

training

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Second Try: What do you think of these dresses? (Not a poll)

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 19 Dec 12

The image failed to upload last time, so we'll give this another go. I have a picture in my profile (if it fails to upload again) with three dresses in it, of a certain style. I'm interested in what you, male and female, think...

fashion perceptions

opinion

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Transcription In Languages Besides English: Anyone Looked Into That?

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 8 Dec 12

So, everyone on Mylot must communicate in English, but I was curious if anyone has looked into doing transcription in their native languages. Are there resources out there for beginning transcribers in Spanish, Japanese, etc.? I...

foreign language transcription

transcription

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Listverse Offers $100 For Your Lists (You know, if they like it)

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 8 Dec 12

This might be old news to everyone, but I thought I'd share just in case. Listverse apparently pays you $100 via Paypal if they publish your list, and there's a chance to randomly win $2000 in November. Disclaimers: 1. I'm...

listverse

writing for money

3 responses

Little Things That Help You Find Your Calling...

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 6 Dec 12

I was talking to a new aquaintance recently. He's shifted from subject to subject in university, always along a theme of interests, but never settling on anything. It was only after talking to a close friend that he was able to...

finding a path

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When Homeschooling Is A Selfish Decision

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 5 Dec 12

I'm going insane looking for some way out, some scholarship or fund or contest to help me out here (and I'm still looking inbetween writing this). Here's why parents should still have a license to teach if they want their kids to...

pity trip

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Feeling Calm In Spiritual Places

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 3 Dec 12

When I was spending the day in town, I had lunch in a garden that contains a manmade grotto... like the broken amethyst stones they sell in New Age shops. There are a few steps, an a platform, and an altar with Virgin Mary statues...

respect

spiritual places

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Horrible Find in My Antiques Guide

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 1 Dec 12

I was reading "Kovel's Know Your Antiques", this version from 1981, and out fell a card. I get excited about those extra finds, but I picked it up... and it says "KKK" in big red letters. It's a business card for the Ku Klux Klan....

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Sociopaths Must Rule The World If "This Is How The World Works".

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 30 Nov 12

It seems like we ask these questions all the time; why would she/he do that? Doesn't she/he understand that it hurts me? How could that person turn everyone against me? It brings a sort of peace of mind to accept the fact that...

everyday evil

sociopaths

Choosing A Money Opportunity: Judge The Language And Quality Of Advertisements

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 28 Nov 12

One of the ways I've always known to stay clear of offers is by judging the language they use. Like the data entry offers that pop up (not a direct quote): "we work for REAL billionaire companies; most offers are SCAMS; but we...

please think about what you read

spotting scams

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Have You Heard Of Coursera's Free College Courses? Are You Using It?

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 27 Nov 12

For those who haven't heard of it, coursera is a new start-up that has partnered with many major universities (American, at least)to offer free courses on a wide variety of subjects. Most of these are IT-type courses, but there...

education

free college

open education

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controlling parent; some kind of privileged imprisonment

cluelle @cluelle (132) • Canada 27 Nov 12

I'm not really expecting replies here. This'll get rambling. All my life, my father has been overprotective, and that was almost okay. There are some crappy people in the world, and I've bumped into a few. But starting in...

controlling parents

no way out

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