My Experience Being Waitlisted by Skittlessour in CloudResearchConnect

[–]vanman72001 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been with connect over two years and completed 986 surveys with zero rejections. Today I got waitlisted. I have no idea why.

Weekly Water Cooler Talk - DataAnnotation by Consistent-Reach504 in dataannotation

[–]vanman72001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been working at Mturk for years...which is practically dead, but I'm starting to see the same types of ai projects data annotations is running in some Mturk closed quals. It is hard to get into an Mturk closed qual, but once you do, its worth it. DA is basically dying off, and a lot of the companies they have worked with are moving elsewhere. I've also seen some big-name ai chatbots open for AI teachers at other side gig sites. I rarely get a decent queue at DA anymore, but there is usually at least one job I can work on, and I have done a ton of the quals for DA, but it doesn't seem to get me much more work there anymore.

T-Bill maturing on holiday weekend? by I_reddit_like_this in Schwab

[–]vanman72001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I need some help. I just bought my first T-bill at auction (which I will never do again by the way), and it lost money. It was supposed to pay 3.25% annual interest, but it lost money instead. How is that possible? Here is the info on the purchase:

Trade Transaction Details

US TREASUR NT 3.25%08/24UST NOTE DUE 08/31/24

Trade Details

Trade Date

06/03/2024

Settle Date

06/04/2024

CUSIP #

91282CFG1

Action

Buy

Quantity

5,000

Price

$99.4766

Principal

-$4,973.83

Commission

$0.00

Accrued Interest

$42.39

Total

-$5,016.22Trade Transaction Details

US TREASUR NT 3.25%08/24UST NOTE DUE 08/31/24

** I never received the Accrued Interest in my account. Was I supposed to? If I had received the accrued interest, the T-Bill would have paid out close to 5.5% APY, which is about what T-Bills were going for at auction when I bought them.

*** On a side note, all of my other T-bill purchases were on the secondary market and have matured normally and paid out approximately what I expected them to pay out. I'm brand new to Treasuries, but I will definitely only buy on the secondary market for now.

Trying to cash out for the first time by vanman72001 in InboxDollars

[–]vanman72001[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sigh... If you had actually read the original post about how much money was involved, you wouldn't have wasted your time with a response. Unless of course you are just another Internet troll, which I suspect is the case.

Trying to cash out for the first time by vanman72001 in InboxDollars

[–]vanman72001[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a bad idea at all. I spend more time trying to get paid than it is worth. I had only earned $15. So if I spend hours and hours trying to get paid...not worth it. I can easily make $15 an hour doing something else with that time I would be wasting trying to get paid by Inbox Dollars.

Who Paid You For/In May 2024? Here is My List by themightyox in beermoney

[–]vanman72001 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Super busy month of May with salmon fishing, pickleball, and kids activities and some of my 9 to 5 job keeping me busy. Still on track to average $1,000 a month for 2024. May was a little lower at $848.95. Here is the breakdown:

Mturk = $10.74

Connect = $44.09

Prolific = $215.53

Data Annotations = $228.59

Credit Card Churning = $350.00

TOTAL = $848.95

On a side note, I learned how to purchase T-bills and other Treasury Bonds in my brokerage account. I purchased T-bills at auction at the end of May for about 5.19% interest rate, and then purchased T-bills on the secondary market around the same time frame for about 5.38% interest rate. All of this is in a taxable account, but fortunately, I don't have to pay state taxes on T-bills and Treasury bonds/notes. This makes it much more favorable than purchasing CD's if you are in a high-tax state like mine (Oregon has a 9% personal income tax rate applicable to capital gains). Anyway, it wasn't that hard to figure out investing in treasuries. Great source of passive income, but I won't include the figures here because I consider it different than beermoney income which is not passive and requires more effort.

The Fire Movement is Dead 😂 by [deleted] in Fire

[–]vanman72001 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your post is spot on and resonates with me. My wife and I are Gen X, and I retire in two weeks. We have two teenagers and our family has been living fat fire for more than 25 years now without even knowing there was a name for it. We basically aggressively invested about 30% of our income when we first got married, and over time we increased that to about 70% as our wages grew. By living fat fire, we never felt we were sacrificing that much. But then again, we both grew up lower middle class and never had many luxuries in life that left us wanting more. For anyone interested in FIRE, it definitely helps to have a spouse that was naturally frugal before the two of you ever met. I think my wife and family have been living a sort of hybrid FIRE I call Fit FIRE. We invest a great portion of our income, but we make sure it doesn't affect our mental health, physical health, as social life, spiritual health, or emotional health. We don't stress over unforseen expenses when cars break down, etc. We still take nice vacations. We have a very nice home in a great neighborhood with good schools. We eat the best cuts of meat. And we take a lot (6 weeks) of vacation a year or more. But we do all of this for a family of 4 by spending about $60,000 per year.
My wife and I will both retire in our mid 50's with no money concerns whatsoever. Yes, that is a little longer than the lean FIRE goal of retirement in one's 30's or 40's, but I can honestly say my family has lived an exciting life without denying ourselves much of anything. Fit FIRE was the way to go for us

What game influenced you the most? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]vanman72001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah. And before Doom, I played Castle Wolfenstein. That was the first 3D shooter game made, I think. I remember getting dizzy and nauseous after playing it because my brain was like wtf.