Does online work pay you sufficient?

Pakistan
June 29, 2011 8:18am CST
Are you been paid of your worth.................. Does online jobs pay you how much you work, because i am new at mylot and other sites like triond? Waiting for your suggestions.............
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• Philippines
29 Jun 11
Does online work pay sufficiently, well the answer maybe yes or maybe no. Before that was Yes to me, but now its a NO because most of the sites I have been working to become a scam and some closed down so my income online is also down. Second thing is that online income is not fixed income that you have to rely every end of the month and that you will get something. Earning money online is depending on your time and availability and your skills plus the opportunity. If you don't work, you don't get paid. If there is no job offers, there is no pay. It is not a vending machine that you put a coin and some item in the machine will come out. Working online takes time before you see the fruit of your labor. It will never pay you instant money, because you need to reach certain threshold before you can have the money. Suggestions to you, well never treat online work as your bread and butter. Working at home is fun but you should be skillful enough to know what sites can give you money which is also legal and will last longer. I treat it as my part time job, never my full time job.
29 Jun 11
May I just say that your third paragraph is one of the best summaries of online work (or contract/freelance work, for that matter) I've seen in ages? Great summary, especially for newcomers.
29 Jun 11
"Online jobs" is a very wide spectrum of activities. Some pay well, others don't. Taking MyLot and Triond as examples: One could say that MyLot asks for a LOT of work for very little reward, but then you'd only be looking at the pure financial return. The gain in amusement, excellent advice and useful tips is valuable, too. Triond pays on a revenue share system. You could say that the $0.05 you get in a certain month on a certain article (that's a random rev-share-style figure: I don't use Triond, so I don't know how much it actually pays) isn't a fair return on your writing time. But then it's residual income: if it brings in the same amount every month for the next two years, your article will have earned you $1.20. In five years, it's $3. Does that make it worthwhile for you? Personally, I stopped doing revenue share a couple of years ago. It's a nice model for people who produce a LOT of output easily and quickly, since a combined income from hundreds of articles can actually be a lot of money - and you can post the same stuff on many sites and make your $0.05 off each one every month! Unfortunately for me, I work slower and do more intense, researched work so the ROI is much, much lower. I just don't have the constant creativity to spew hundreds of articles out every month and I set very high quality standards for myself, too, which doesn't help - kind of shooting myself in the foot, I suppose. So the direct-to-client model works better for me, where I'm paid well to research, write, edit, rewrite and proof professional (hopefully!) material. That's not to say articles on rev-share sites aren't high-quality, by the way. Although I put it in the same sentence, that's not my implication. In my case, I'm lucky because I'm paid what I think I'm worth. I earn between $10 and $40 an hour, averaging at the $20 mark most often, depending on the work done. But it's taken a while to build up the reputation and clientele to have ongoing work at that level. (Some people I know average over $100 an hour, which would be really nice but they have a lot more experience or talent than me!) The "how much I'm worth" question is very hard, because the answer is different for everyone.
29 Jun 11
Just writing and editing. I can map processes, do requirements analysis, QA testing (yuck, I hate that) or even handle business intelligence reporting, but I stepped away from IT stuff a while ago and just concentrate on words now.
• Pakistan
29 Jun 11
i start doing work, and i give my best,but when they pay me less,,, than i stop doing that work... because somewhere i think that this is not my worth....... what other sort of work you do(online).
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@ryzach (1544)
• United States
29 Jun 11
The pay for online will never compare to what I earn at my job. I am semi- retired and work at a part-time job mostly for extra cash and benefits and in the past have worked quite a bit , 2 jobs etc. Now it is time where I don't want to do that any longer so I try to earn a bit online . Most of the earnings online come from taking surveys, I get cash, gift cards and product to test from time to time. The product that I test usually saves me from having to buy it and therefore saves me money. Some of the items I have received are dish washer tabs, toilet paper, shampoo, facial products, cereal, snacks, spices, trash bags ( I had to test 2 of them, but received a box of 35 bags which lasted a very long time), laundry detergent,etc..... The money from surveys add up, it is not a lot but just extra money. On rare occasions some of the surveys have led me to focus groups which pay quite a bit , but again this is rare - maybe once of twice a year if I am lucky.
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
29 Jun 11
Hello and welcome to mylot, When you are a beginner you need to be careful about what sites you join and what sites will actually work for you or which ones will become scam. There are people who earn enough online but they have been online for a while and have found what works for them. Since you are new to online earnings I would sugest doing a lot of research and seeking out those who earn enough to supplement an income and asking them how they did it. Also depending on your country, you may not be able to earn on some sites.
• United States
29 Jun 11
Online jobs aren't sufficient enough to live off of, you have to have a real job too, but they are really good to make some extra money. A lot of times online jobs are no good because they take too long to cashout or they are scams. But you can read reviews to avoid scams (don't join everything out there), and find sites that cashout is less. I have earned quite a bit of money online, but it took a while to start earning, once I found the right sites for me.
@iklananda (1202)
29 Jun 11
yes they are paying, To maximize we must be in the group ok i will add you as my friend. What do you have ?
• Philippines
30 Jun 11
Add me as well. I'm new here at myLot and starting to learn how to earn money here in this site. Thanks!