Maybe you know the economy is bad, and you could use some extra dollars each month to help make ends meet?
Or maybe you've been looking for work in order to augment a full/part-time career that's drying up, but so far without success?
In either case, coming across opportunities to be a paid survey taker or to accomplish other micro-tasks, you think: "ahh, this is it! I can do these things from the comfort of home on my own schedule." Carefully perusing how each platform/company offering the opportunity you're considering describes itself, you believe this will fit your life well, while providing a modest amount of income.
But will it?
THE TRUTH ABOUT SURVEYS: GETTING PAID FOR YOUR OPINIONS (& OTHER MICRO-TASK OPPORTUNITIES) takes a look behind the veil at the reality of yoking one's time, energy, brain space, and financial health to subsidiary income from these paradigms.