1. Genealogy finder
Are you a fan of detective stories? If you like to analyze the insides and
love to retrieve missing bunches of information, you can do well as a genealogy
tracker. People are keen on reconnecting with their origins, but not many
actually have the necessary patience to put together a genealogy tree. This is
why there’s plenty of room to offer your services to dig through online or
physical archives for their lost ancestors. To start like a pro, you can take
online courses of genealogy, which are available free here.
2. Human intelligence special agent on Amazon Mechanical
Turk
This is a worldwide marketplace where companies post small to minuscule
computer tasks that employ human skills, such as transcribing the voice in an
audio recording, finding certain elements in a photo or categorizing webpages by
their content. It’s usually a few hours of working time on each task and you can
do it in your own pace. Wages are as little as a few cents, so you really have
to be determined in order to make some pocket money. And a friend’s advice: make
sure you understood correctly the instructions of an assignment before starting,
or you may find yourself scavenging for hours on websites for the picture of
some puppy that was actually a kitten.