Greetings to you! noblebean is my handle; I love pinto beans, navy beans, green beans, black beans, kidney beans, lima beans, butter beans, garbanzo beans and black-eyed peas. Alas, there are no beans growing in my garden. Newly approved to turk. While waiting I have been picking up all the knowledge you good folks have kindly put down here. Thank you to those who make this forum possible and to those who see fit to share knowledge with us new people. I just read the 36 page thread for new turkers and found that very helpful. In preparation I have downloaded a number of purportedly useful Firefox add-ons suggested and am excited about tools that will make the turking experience more efficient and manageable. I appreciate the discussion I have read about scripts and tools thus far and have marked some threads regarding these topics for next reading. I'd like to make the observation that this forum is visually clean and easy to navigate. My goals for becoming a worker on mturk are: supplement my income (which mostly disappeared when I was laid off) do my limit 100 HITs a day for the first week, focusing on surveys 80% and batches 20% to get my numbers up get some qualifications going - am interested in any approaches to this my financial goal for the first month is 60 dollars per week Mturk appeals to me because: I am a visual-oriented learner I like details and believe they are important I prefer words and language to numbers and maths formerly I worked as an analyst doing research and classification for a procurement and sourcing organization I used to do a little transcribing in a previous job and I loved it I enjoy organizing and tagging things, bringing order to the chaos I love feedback and constructive criticism. As an adult I have really learned that no one finds success alone; we must to depend on others, whether we like it or not. We all stand on the shoulders of giants. I appreciate what I have learned here thus far, so, thank you for letting me stand on your shoulders. Lucky for you I have lost ten pounds! see y'all around the forum, noblebean