Snowflaking Idea: Become a ChaCha Guide
I’ve discovered a new source of snowflaking funds, and it’s called ChaCha. I just signed up a few days ago, so I don’t have a lot of experience yet, but here’s basically how it works:
ChaCha is a free service where people text questions to 242242 (spells ChaCha), and a ChaCha guide looks up the answer online and sends it back. ChaCha guides are paid between 10-20 cents for each question answered, which averages out to be about $3-$8 per hour. To become a ChaCha guide, you have to have high-speed Internet access and take a few short online quizzes to make sure you can type, spell and find the correct answers to questions. You can work as much or as little as you want, whenever.
While the pay isn’t too great, it seems like a creative way to snowflake money toward your debt snowball or other goals, on your own schedule. I plan on doing it during my free time or when I’m bored.
If you want to apply to be a guide, click here, and let me know if you have any questions. While I would have posted about this anyway, if you’d like to help me make a few extra snowflakes, enter my email address as your referrer (financegetspersonal @ gmail . com - remove the spaces).
Also, if any of you have experience as a ChaCha guide, let us know how it’s going for you!
p.s. I should also mention that you may sometimes have to answer questions about non-family-friendly topics, so if you’re sensitive to that type of thing, this might not be your idea of a good time. But I’ve found it to be somewhat amusing so far 
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I’ve read about ChaCha and it seems like there are some prank questions or wild topics that people get stuck with. But those sound really fun to me : )
That sounds like more fun than Mturk. Do you have certain time requirements on how quickly you respond?
Well, you are given the opportunity to select whether or not you take the question (so you can say no if you’re busy). Once you accept, you have a time limit of 10 minutes before it abandons your search and sends it to someone else. Usually it takes about 2 minutes to answer a question (or at least that’s what I’ve found so far).
I think I heard it pays about $6-$10 an hour - is that correct?
Well, it hasn’t for me so far. You are paid 10 cents per question answered no matter what. If you answer at least 200 questions during the week, answer at least 95% of the questions without aborting the session and meet the minimum accuracy requirements (I think 2 out of the 3 answers they check must be correct), then you will earn 20 cents per question answered for the following week. So far, I’ve made about $42 for about 15 hours, so that’s less than $3 an hour! But, if you can devote at least five hours a week to it, you’d probably break about $6 an hour.