[blueboo]

We believe it's insane and dismiss it out of hand because we all realize Mechanical Turk doesn't pay a living wage in the developed world.

But I dunno, I feel OK with the premise that this guy reduced his expenses and optimized his career as much as he could.

Say you did all that and had a few hours a week you wanted to use to make your household budget a bit healthier...getting paid for some kind of remote work via an automated system that'll accommodate your inconsistent hours has an appeal!

[Ma8ee]

Yes, but someone who calls himself a BA should be able to get better return for his time.

[mruts]

He probably can but MTurk is superior because of liquidity and flexibility. There are very few jobs in which value is created and paid for in a span of a minute. By turning dead time into money, generating money in a way you could not for other jobs.

And a BA isn’t worth much regardless. Half the people I knew in college now work at coffee shops.

A general good rule is what when you see someone do something, there’s probably a, if not good, understandable reason for it.

[codetrotter]

> And a BA isn’t worth much regardless. Half the people I knew in college now work at coffee shops.

I agree with everything you said but just wanted to point out that in the comment you responded to, “BA” means “Business Analyst”, whereas in the sentence you wrote that I quoted it seems that you took “BA” to mean “Bachelor of Arts”.

[blaser-waffle]

> A general good rule is what when you see someone do something, there’s probably a, if not good, understandable reason for it.

In this case, presumably a middle-class kid who was fed a line that going to college is the way forward. They were probably decent but not outstanding students who went mostly because that was expected and got a A of Arts degree because the BS degrees are miserable.

Motivated folks can make that BA work, but your barista was probably going to end up there with or without a Bachelor's; the BA just means they're promotable, or may be able to break out of that place later.

[Ma8ee]

A business analyst should be able to analyse how to get better return for his money. There’s probably not much other work that you can deliver in such small chunks, but there’s definitely work that can be performed in small chunks at a time.

That you think that you understand someone’s reasons doesn’t mean that you have to agree with or not think there’s are better ways.