EPTAh yes.
I've started to review episodes for a Japanese TV network called jibtv on NHKWorld. While watching this station an add came up saying they were looking for people to monitor the quality of their new shows, so I applied by writing a test review and sending my personal details and a signed form to Tokyo via air-mail and eventually got accepted. This was about 3 days before the big earthquake hit.
For every review of min. 300 words + an evaluation sheet, where I would grade different aspects of the show, I'd get an Amazon Gift Card worth 16€ . I had to do at least 2 reviews per month, usually there were 3 to chose from except when they aired a special about the earthquake along with the other 3. That month I filed 5 monitoring reports amounting to 80€ revenue. Yesterday I got my gift cards for April May and June together, a total of 144€, and instructed my brother who lives in Germany to buy me stuff on Amazon.de. He'll bring it home to Romania just in time for my birthday, as he's coming anyway to accept his Hungarian citizenship (we live close to the Hungarian border).
In about 4-5 days I'll have a brand new Core2Duo 3.06 GHz (a bombastic upgrade compared to my dual core 1.6), 2GB DDR2 Kingston Ram in addition to my 1GB, a promising M115 optical mouse from Logitech, (...)
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(...) and a mousepad .. I'll actually have a real professional mousepad for once in my life, a steel series Qck. I'm a happy guy.
I look forward to streaming some ultralow-latency #L1 Broodwar games that I play with my comrades on the Romanian Robattle server, once I am confident enough with the mouse dpi change from 800 to 1000.
Now .. I want to hear your success stories about "working" on the internets or actual work in general.
PS: You can see by the quotation marks that I didn't consider this work, watching the shows was fun, educational and sometimes emotional, and writing my thoughts on them is like writing a blog-entry.
