Before I started I loved the idea of helping people find info b/c I'm the research queen, and get a kick out of it! But I've been doing it about 2 months now and I admit that it's wearing on my nerves. Every day I force myself to sit down and do it until I've made at least $5, and most days (weekdays) it takes me over 3 hours to get there.
But it's not just that, it's the quality of the whole thing. I am very precise about answering questions with valid sources, even double checking my answers when I'm not certain that it's the best answer, but doing it as fast as I can (which is surprisingly stressful
). And I definitely don't hit "accept" on answers I'm not fairly confident I can find the correct (not just closest) answer for. I know it means I make less b/c I'm not churning and burning questions, but I believe in doing a job right.
And yet I see answers in the history practically nonstop where guides CLEARLY didn't know what they were talking about, were just chunking out any answer as fast as possible (that could have been easily, thoroughly answered with a little extra effort), or are just flat out WRONG. Little things like the person asking for a nearby Walmart and the guide saying, "I need your city." They could look at the sender's location and search for one there, and if that's not what they were looking for they'll text back. But give them SOMETHING. Or a guide won't check history and the person is looking for MORE info, but just keep getting back the same basic answer. C'mon already! Worse, I actually ChaCha myself to get an answer at times, and 50% of the time get terrible responses, despite forming the ? in a way I know will make it easy on the guide.
So it's like...I'm making NOTHING and my hard work doesn't seem to matter. Getting a good "quality" rating may keep me from being dumped by ChaCha but it certainly doesn't seem like they have very high standards, so I keep wondering why I'm even bothering.
And to think I used to question whether taking 30 minutes to do a $3 survey was worth my time
Heck, that's like rolling in the dough compared to ChaCha!