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CloudCrowd Worker Case Studies

Our Top 5 Earners in November 2011 made

Rank	Amount
#1	$1,488.58
#2	$1,311.88
#3	$1,058.37
#4	$1,018.42
#5	$813.37

Here are some recent ways in which CloudCrowd helped our workers!

Author: Megan T.

Things I have learned from working for CloudCrowd:

• Spelling, grammar and punctuation rules that I had long since forgotten since high school English classes. I can now write and edit, which makes my skills much more marketable should I ever need to convince a potential client or employer of my worthiness.
• How to have thick skin. I realized that even though I may have had a tough exterior, rejection and criticism still cut like a knife. I can probably attribute my growth of thick skin to Rick :)
• To be thankful for work when it's there. It can dry up in a second, so I try my best to get it while the gettin's good.

How CloudCrowd has benefited my life:

• CloudCrowd was largely responsible for me being able to work full time to support my family while we transitioned into a new life. We moved 200 miles away, were able to pay for all the hefty deposits and even find time to go on vacation within a month. The vast majority of that money came from CC earnings, along with a few other clients.
• I can work on small tasks during the rare moments that my daughter actually entertains herself for a bit. When I'm not working on tasks, I get to read to my daughter, work on puzzles with her and occasionally I let her see how much stuff she can stack on my head (for some reason this is highly amusing to a three year old).
• I can work alone in the evenings when I need to lock myself away from an occasionally crabby kid and a husband who likes to aggravate her on purpose.

Things I have learned from Servio/CloudCrowd:

• That it is possible to put in the hard work and dedication it takes to take an innovative idea and turn it into a working platform that betters the lives of customers and workers. I'm an entrepreneur before anything else, and I have a lot of respect and admiration for the owners and admins and the work they do every day to contribute to the growth of the company.

 

Author: Bridget Coila

It was a warm June morning and as the scent of kimchee and stale beer filled the morning air, we realized that we were, indeed, stuck in Seoul for another day with just 24,000 won left to tide us over.

Sounds like a lot, doesn't it? Unfortunately, the won-to-dollar exchange rate is around 1,000 to 1. So that meant that our $24 wasn't really going to get us far. Especially when another night at the hostel was 40,000 won, not to mention the cost of food, the airport shuttle back, and diapers.

Yes, diapers. "We" included myself, my partner, and our 15-month-old bundle of crazy.

"Never fear!" I told them. My partner looked doubtful. The baby looked around on the hostel floor trying to remember where he dropped a piece of cookie last night so he could reclaim it and eat it.

I explained. "Cloud Crowd has a ton of Product Descriptions up right now."

We got to work (meaning *I* got to work doing PDs and Daddy got to work keeping baby occupied on the other side of the hostel room so he didn't try to climb on the keyboard).

A few hours and many, many PDs later, we were set. I was beginning to describe everything in the hostel room as "elegant, stylish, and looks good with any style of living room or bedroom decor", including our suitcases, the hostel air conditioning unit, and the hedgehog pencil sharpener the baby had stolen from Daddy, but we had the cash we needed. With the time difference, it came through early in the morning in Seoul, just in time to go pay for another night before checkout time. I could even afford to get food and a little mini-pack of diapers from one of the ubiquitous 7-11s that grace every street corner in Asia. Now, over that hurdle thanks to CC, we moved on to the next one- figuring out where the baby had hidden our passports so we could go home…

 

Author: Catrina Daniels

Well, where to begin. I’ve been on Cloud for over a year, actually, this is my second Christmas season, so probably around 18 months. At the time, I’d just moved home from college, to an apartment with my then fiancé, who you all rather know as T.C. here. Unfortunately, I’d recently had a major surgery and he had a major, life-threatening health condition happen. We moved back so I could take a job for the Stark Park system in Ohio, which would have given us both immense benefits and stability when we got married.

Long story short, I had post-traumatic stress syndrome that was undiagnosed. T.C. had lost his job here, which was a primary source of income, and I couldn’t maintain mine. After about a month of emergency calls and so on, I decided to stay home and find at-home work. That’s how I got to Cloud.

At the time, it was amazing to me that I could even make ten or twenty dollars in a day and get paid. We literally lived one day at a time. Sometimes, Cloud was the difference between eating or not, although that was usually a priority since T.C. is diabetic. Needless to say, Cloud has saved us both more than a few times.

Over time, I really found I liked this work and I stuck it out through what was then the beta stage. Now I fully support myself through the site. In the summer I was again incredibly ill from a “preventative” shot a doctor gave me, and without Cloud we would have never been able to survive. It was literally the difference between buying insulin and going without, having my emergency medications or suffering through it, and seeing doctors to find out what was wrong.

Cloud recently afforded me enough to cover my latest surgery, and now I’m going to happily be able to travel to see my nieces in a few months. I can pay rent, do what I want, and not have to worry if I have another condition issue come about. This has been my savior. I guess there really isn’t a resolution to my story. Cloud is continuing to help me and T.C., though we aren’t together much, and it’s been so helpful in letting me meet new people and learn new things. I couldn’t have asked for more.