Good stay-at-home mom jobs are hard to find. Your first priority is your family, so you need a job that allows you to set your own hours. But aren’t those kinds of jobs difficult to find?
Not if you know where to look. There is a website online that’s run by Amazon (so you know it’s legitimate) where you can pick up different kinds of work at home jobs based on your own schedule. The name of the site is Mechanical Turk (mturk.com), named after an 18th-century automated chess playing contraption that toured Europe and the United States challenging human chess players.
Amazon’s mechanical Turk is an online outsourcing marketplace that automates the process of matching up humans with all sorts of different kinds of jobs that humans do better than computers. The key here is to find the jobs that are easy for you to do, yet pay enough to make them worth the time it takes for you to do them. This is usually the best strategy when looking for stay-at-home mom jobs.
If you’re looking for work from home and doing data entry, or if you like to do online research, you may be able to find these kinds of jobs on the Mechanical Turk. When you first look at it, you’ll see a lot of the HITs (or human intelligence tasks) paying only one or two cents each. But don’t let that put you off. You just have to spend some time researching, because there are higher-paying tasks that show up. New tasks are being added every hour.
As a stay-at-home mom, the way to make this work for you is to spend some time getting used to the website, and finding out which types of HITs you should look for. You can use the site’s search function to find HITs that pay at least a minimum amount that you would be comfortable working for. Some of the higher-paying HITs can pay $6-$10 for doing things like video and audio transcription. So if you’re fast and want to be an at-home typist, transcription tasks may be perfect for you.
At first it may not seem like it would be worthwhile to complete a single task for $5 or $6. But when you consider that you might be able to make $6 during the baby’s morning nap, $10 during the afternoon nap, and maybe another $5 or $10 after the kids go to sleep, it can add up over the course of a week or a month. And as a stay-at-home mom job, that kind of flexibility is very valuable.
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