ChaCha hiring work-at-home Expediators

I got several jobs off Craigslist. For instance, I subcontract the cleaning of a federal office building. The contract holder pays me $17.22 an hour (1099) and reimburses me for supplies. Another agency pays me $35 (W4) to clean a small house just a mile or two from where I live. (It would only take me 2 hours if I didn't usually end up yapping with the homeowner, but he's a nice guy, so I don't mind.)

I milk cows on a dairy farm 5 nights a week and love it but, as we all know, no one ever got rich working for a farmer! So I do a few things on the side to make a buck.

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Thanks for the information. We must live in an area that isn't so good for that. The wife ran an ad last year to clean houses. She was asking $6 an hour. That seemed reasonable to me. Only one person responded and they paid her $4 an hour for 3 1/2 hours once a week. I never thought she should have done it, but she said it was OK. She finally decided it wasn't worth it by the end of the year and stopped. She has answered ads for cleaning by companies hiring workers. She never heard back. I'm sure it's because of her age. Oh well, we'll just keep trundling along and hope for the best.

Nomad

That is sad, Nomad. It sounds like the economy is entirely in the crapper in your area.

If you were younger, I'd advise moving, but it sounds like you've already reached retirement age, in which case it may be better to stay put. It's easier to "live poor" when most everyone around you is, too -- prices in the local economy are somewhat geared to what the market will bear. (Can you tell I'm from northern Michigan? LOL)

Do people regularly work for $6 an hour in your neck of the woods? I would hesitate to offer services below the market rate. A potential client may wonder, "What's wrong with this person that they can't even get a minimum-wage job?" So that might be off-putting. Personally, I don't compete on the basis of price, but on reliability, integrity (I'm not going to steal your stuff!) and thoroughness. My clients seem more concerned about those things than saving $5 or $10. References from satisfied customers are worth their weight in gold.

Age discrimination is supposed to be illegal but we know it's a reality. In what fields can you use age to your advantage? How about babysitting or an in-home daycare? Being a "Grandma" or "Grandpa" type may not be to your disadvantage in that line of work.

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This honestly is legit and easy! It takes like 1-4 days to get confirmation/decline you, but after that you're all set. Tell them buckeyebee73 at the land of the YAHOOs sent you! It's great.

I made a whopping $8.02 this week. I'll be buying that ranch any day now.

Nomad

I think the companies that were hiring cleaners were paying about $9-10 an hour. The wife asked $6 because it was in cash. Our income is so low that we qualify for Medicaid for my girls. They both have psycological issues and see a therapist every week. One also goes to the theraputic horse farm. We can barely make the bills, so we could never get them the care they need. If the wife gets a job at a real place we will lose the Medicaid and the girls will stay screwed up forever. I can't have that.

The wife had a child care business in our home for 13 years. My youngest never knew a time when there weren't other kids in the house getting the attention and breaking her toys. When we moved to a rental house in 2008 we decided that enough is enough. The other thing is there are people advertising to do child care for $1.50 an hour around here. There's no way she would do it for that. She would feed the kids at our expense as well. Oh well, we'll see what happens. Hopefully I'll sell some stuff at the flea market store.

Nomad

I know it won't make us rich, but it helps! :-) Good luck in all your endeavors!

I bought 100 shares of FCS on Thursday @ $16.25 a share. It wobbled a bit on Friday (guess the company came out on the wrong end of a lawsuit) but shot up more than 5% ($.96/ share) this morning. I dumped it; picked up $71 after my trading fee.

I just checked and it's up $1.08 now, so as usual, I pulled the plug too soon, LOL! I am not complaining though ... oh heck no!

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I had forgotten that I am an older guide on ChaCha and still work for money. The newer guides work for points. At the end of the month there is a pot of money that is divided based on how many points you have. They never know how much a point will be worth. I just saw the point worth for January and it is 7/10 of a cent. Since they get 2 points per question, they are making a whopping 1.4 cents per question. I thought 2 cents was bad. We used to get 3 cents when I first started, but they cut it down because I guess we had it too good. Oh well, I do it more for fun than the money. There are some real morons out there and I love answering them. Plus you haven't lived until you have to decipher an entire sentence where every word is misspelled and answer it. If what I see is any indication of our educational system, there isn't much hope for this country.

Nomad

Do you have to pay taxes to the IRS on money you make from ChaCha?

Yes, they give the IRS the information and I get a 1099.

Nomad

Thanks for the info.

I guess I won't be looking into it further then. I only get a small alimony check every month and live in an apartment complex where your rent is based on your income, or lack of it.

So if my landlord finds out I'm making any money, which they will, then my rent will likely go up and that will defeat my working to make some extra money to help with prescriptions and doctor bills.

I would like a referral. Thanks.

Hey, Survival Bob and Susan...I have a question. I signed up with chacha and took all their little tests and now I am a guide. They say the pay is ONE HALF OF ONE CENT per response...is that right? one half of one cent? Really? How long does one have to waste time doing that before they can move into something else? ONE HALF OF ONE CENT??? SERIOUSLY??? I type like the wind but I am thinking at that rate I might not make enough to pay for my internet...not that it matters becuase I am not giving it up...but are there jobs that pay more than that?? THanks in advance. I would love to get into transcription since that is what I do for a living (medical)...and I type like the wind. It is my only marketable skill. I will get nowhere on my good looks and charm. Any advice gratefully received.

I was getting 2 cents per question and that was only because I had been there before they switched to points. Now the new guides work for points and at the end of the month there is a pool of money which is divided by the points earned. The more points, the less per point. I stopped doing it because it wasn't fun any longer for me. I sure wasn't doing it for the 2 cents. At a half cent, I would think there could be more money made picking up aluminum cans.

Nomad

thanks for the reply. There are an awful lot of folks picking up aluminum cans around here...and with gas hovering in the $4 per gallon range, you better find a place with a bunch of cans in one place or go in the hole cost wise.

I think chacha is not going to work for me. As of yesterday the pay is one half cent per response and nothing was said about points although I did notice when I signed in to watch the training videos that there were folks who had points listed after their name.

Survival bob got angry at someone who said this was a scam...but really...hiring people to work for a half cent per response? What else could you call this?

Thanks again.

It's not a scam, but it does take advantage of people who are desperate for money. I don't know how many times I read posts on the forums where someone needed to work 16 hours that day to make the pay cut off. As I said, I did it for fun. I was amazed at the questions people would ask. I loved it when they changed the rules so we could answer on our own and not have to send a canned answer. I had great fun with that. When I started we were getting 3 cents a question. Then it went to 2 cents and finally to points which allowed them to use people even more. In my opinion they did everything they could to drive the older guides out so they wouldn't have to pay that huge 2 cents. QC was a joke as well. I'd get a couple of dings a week which will get you fired. But I'd appeal and they would be overturned. I think they just gave out dings to justify their jobs. I'm glad to be done with it. I didn't make much, so I don't miss it. If someone needs money and doesn't mind spending their whole day for $1 an hour, I suppose it's okay. Even on a good day I never did much over $2 an hour. Many older guides do, but I didn't use all of the tricks they know.

I think if you have a talent for drawing or taking pictures, Zazzle.com might be the way to go. I just started and still have a lot of pictures to upload to make items. Then I'll do stores for both of my daughters. I made my first sale in less than two days after opening my store. I like it because I have a ton of pictures I've taken and it doesn't cost anything but my time to open a store.

Nomad

I just tried logging into ChaCha and must be they removed my account. It's been a couple years since I logged in.

I know I never cashed out any of my "earnings"...

Nevermind. Post deleted.

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Could I get a pm. Thanks so much for time in this.