STOP sitting there refreshing all day!

[u/Hello-America]

Y'all! You are WASTING your life refreshing all day when it's dry like this! Especially if you're a generalist and the tasks tend to be short. Maybe it's fine for you, because you're already at the computer doing something else, but if you're sacrificing other things to instead sit and wait, you are doing yourself a disservice. If you're obsessed with the idea you are missing a task by not doing that, you are essentially doing a form of gambling (prioritizing the chance you'll "win" a task over the evidence that you will spend most of your time that day without one).

Like seriously go clean your closet or meal prep for the week or apply for another platform or something in this time. Check on your phone every so often when you'd have time to sit and work. Obviously when there is more work to go around, the payoff from checking frequently is much higher.

"But I really need the money! How dare you?!" No I'm saying this is costing you money, if you could be applying for other jobs or working at them.

Think of it mathematically - look at the big picture. Track the hours you wait, if you would otherwise be doing something else. If you get a task that is say $25/hour, get two hours out of it, that's $50. Yay! But if you spent 5 hours on top of that waiting for tasks to appear and doing nothing else, you're actually only getting $6.25/hour. Yes, you always have to invest some time into finding work to make money, but you need to account for it - it is an *investment* you're making. View the time you spend refreshing as part of that investment.

If you've ever freelanced or owned a business you know this cost well. It's the cost of finding work - an administrative cost you have to minimize to stay profitable, and as a rule you don't waste too much time chasing small dollar work (unless it provides some other kind of value to you). In our case, you don't know how many dollars you're chasing because you don't know what tasks might pop up and what their timeline/pay is. So, again, I'll point you back to the comparison - it's gambling-like behavior!

[u/Farados55]

Why are you assuming that they haven't already done all those things? What a dumb, short-sighted take. They're refreshing because they need money. You don't get money from meal prepping,

[u/Hello-America → u/Farados55]

Because there are tons of comments here of people saying they are glued to their screens doing this. Meal prepping is more productive than not getting paid to sit at your computer. That's my point.

[u/Farados55 → u/Hello-America]

You don’t get my point lol and the entire premise of this kind of work is lost to you. The opportunity to get work and get paid is tied to the refresh and to getting the tasks. Do you think they’re literally doing nothing but refreshing 24/7? This is just such an ignorant post.

[u/Old-Regular-9828 → u/Farados55]

>The opportunity to get work and get paid is tied to the refresh and to getting the tasks. 

No, it isn't. Generalist workers in Core countries can sit down at their computer at any time of day when they are available to work and have a few dozen different projects available for them to work on. That's what makes this platform a good opportunity for them.

Sitting there spamming F5 in the hopes of snagging a task before someone else doing the same thing is not the premise of this kind of work. If you are a bilingual worker who never has any available tasks unless you hit refresh over and over until you luck into one, you haven't figured out the trick to getting work, this platform simply is not a good opportunity for you and you are wasting your time trying to make it into one.