The Crazy Hacks One Woman Used to Make Money on Mechanical Turk

When her husband lost his factory job in 2010, Kristy Milland ran through her options. Until that point, she'd been working at home, earning extra money through odd jobs like selling collectables on eBay. She hadn't waited on tables, had no experience in fast food, and had not learned any skills that might be particularly useful in a factory. She'd once applied for a job at McDonald's, but nobody had called her for an interview. Jobs were more difficult to find in her hometown of Toronto since the beginning of the Great Recession. But there was one place where Milland knew she could get work immediately.