DU'ers who are unemployed, underemployed, check this out!!!

[Herman Munster]

I have no idea what their long-term business model is like, but if you need extra cash, this sounds good. You can work as little or as much as you want, day or night, and all you do is help people find answers to questions by searching.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2516129&page=1

Chacha.com is a brand-new search engine, similar to Yahoo and Google, but with the added component of allowing users to take advantage of a human guide to assist with their searches — all for free.

Beyond that, it's also one new way to make money at home via the Internet because all of those guides are home-based contractors who set their own schedules and work as little or as much as they wish. Guides won't take on real queries or begin to make any money until they've mastered the basic training. So there's no guarantee of income until you've passed the training phase.

Pros make $5 per search hour. The next level is master, which is also paid at $5 per search hour, plus the added ability to earn commissions for referring friends, if they become guides.

The top level is elite, which earns $10 per search hour.

[NVMojo]

1. cool

[ClintonTyree]

2. $5 per search hour?

That's not a whole lot of money for sitting in front of a computer searching for shit other people are too lazy to search for. If you were starving I guess it would be OK but man......sit in front of the computer for 10 hours a day and get.....$50 whole dollars (minus the fees, of course).

Not for me. :shrug: Besides, it would seriously cut into my "DU" time.

[Herman Munster]

4. it's not manual labor

you can work whenever you want and it's not a wal-mart or retail shitty job.

If you are unemployed and looking for work and need money, it's better than nothing in my mind.

Also, if you are good, you make $10 an hour.

[TorchTheWitch]

6. $50 for 10 hours GROSS income, no benefits

No benefits, you have to supply and maintain your own equipment, you'll be paid as an IC so you'll shell out more in taxes... at the end of the day it's LESS than minium wage.

As far as I'm concerned, it's a RIP OFF SCAM.

PERFECT example of why we desperately need better minimum wage laws.

[skids]

3. Another place to make some web income...

...though it is hard to make even minimum wage -- the good thing is it's pretty much instant-start, no training period.

http://mturk.amazon.com

[Herman Munster]

5. that looks interesting

they pay you for writing trivia questions. 21 cents a question kind of sucks though.

[matcom]

7. i don' t know what is worse - underpaid day laborers or this shit

i'm getting pretty sick and tired of Internet Exploitation. we see it on message boards like this one where someone will post something like, "Can someone tell me how Photoshop works" to Internet 'companies' who pay people SHIT to beef up their online 'masterpiece' instead of actually starting a COMPANY and hiring EMPLOYEES.

these Yahoo's (pun intended) are hoping for a million suckers (at $5/hour) to boost their traffic so they can go public and sell a shit-load of banner advertising after their IPO :eyes:

folks if you are starving, go pick up and recycle soda cans. you'll make a hell of a lot more than $5/hour and you won't be helping some kid in his basement reach his failed IPO goals

[Herman Munster]

9. well..

I constantly read people on here saying they are out of work 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, or more. This job requires no interview, no boss, no people interaction, no job hours or any other requirements.

So yeah, it sucks. It pays $5-$10 dollars an hour. Tell me one job that pays close to minimum wage that doesn't suck? Nobody is saying this is a career but its better than picking vegetables for $5 a day like they do with the illegals .

I'm just saying if you got no other options, jobs like this can help with expenses.

[Pugee]

8. I got the impression

that it would not be work all the time you wanted, only when someone requests one of your 3 areas of expertise. So that could be zero or more times a week. They have 7,000 workers and expect to have 50,000.

[blues90]

10. let me tell you about jobs here

I have been looking for something desent for 7 months , I am 57 male and white as if this matters .

I have not been able to find one single job out of 50 interviews , what I did find is driving for a messenger service , i saw plenty of these online and held off because , you use your own car , you pay gas and you get no benefits . So finally I went and got one of these jobs . I was on the 10pm to 6am shift , the traffic is lite in LA at this time and they paid double for the night shift . I drove 4 nights , one night they had work that actually lasted the full shift , cost me $60 gas 450 miles . I got the check minus $16 for workmans comp total $141 before gas for 30 hours of driving delivering film and tapes to processing and developing studios from burbank to hollywood to santa monica . I was new so i got the long runs that paid $20 each from hollywood to santa monica .

They kept telling me how busy it was and I added one more night and got $50 more and spent another $20 for gas . Add in wear on my tires and car and I would be better off if they would hire me at McD's which they won't .

ALL of these online work at home jobs are a joke , it will cost you and by the time you get going it may be a year and $1,000's . It may be fine for extra income if they work as described but if like me you have no job it is not possible .

[texasleo]

11. O RLY?