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Work at Home Jobs Experiment – My Lot

This is the second site in my work at home job experiment series.

MyLot is an online message board site where you get paid to create and participate in discussions about pretty much anything you can think of. The beginning was a little rough for me. The sign up process felt like a personality test. After creating an account I had to select from over 200 “roles that I play in life” and that was only the first of a dozen categories to select from. Yikes.

But, once I got through that, things were a lot better. You can search and browse for discussions related to the issues you select, or look at new and popular discussion topics. I responded to a few quick questions like “do you eat breakfast everyday” and “how often do you get drunk” to get familiar with the site, and then tried starting my own.

Unsurprisingly, my thread about NPR got no attention, but asking what movie to see with friends did pretty well. Like any huge site, it’s really difficult to get a topic moving, because there’s so much competition. Most of the really popular topics are about making money online, which… duh.

I wrote 12 posts in 2 days (probably 1 1/2 hours in total time) and have made $0.19 so far. So, not exactly a cash cow. But, the site is fun, and I think you have to look at it like a nice way to spend time, and earn a little money as a bonus. I would definitely recommend this site as a good way to waste some time and talk to interesting people.