Hi markabe,
I just happened to hear a story on National Public Radio yesterday
about the following organization, whose site you should find
interesting:
Work to Live
http://www.worktolive.info/
Of course, there are enough sites about work to compose a $200 answer.
(Listing and describing them all would take a lot of ... work! :-) )
Many of the sites are listed within this Google category:
"Society > Work"
Google Directory
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Work/
In addition to the links on that particular page, you might want to
browse under the subcategories of Rethinking Work (which in turn
refers to several of the other subcategories), Job Burnout,
Technostress, and Workaholism.
- justaskscott
Search terms used on Google:
"work to live"
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Request for Answer Clarification by
markabe-ga
on
02 Aug 2003 22:24 PDT
justaskscott,
Tell me you’re kidding; this isn’t your answer, right? One site, and
then you tell me to look up "work" on Google? I kinda knew I could do
that already.
Let me reiterate part of the original question:
"I’d like to what sites are out there that deal with… things like how
to enjoy [work], how to improve it, philosophies and theories on its
value."
So you wouldn’t have to list and describe all the sites about work,
just the ones that fit that criteria.
You’ve answered two of my previous questions, and good answers they
were too, so I’m asking you to have another go. If you think I’m
asking too much, perhaps you should withdraw your answer and let
someone else have a go, but I would rather that you be the one to
answer it.
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Clarification of Answer by
justaskscott-ga
on
02 Aug 2003 22:55 PDT
As an experienced user of Google Answers, you are probably already
aware of the pricing guidelines:
https://answers.google.com/answers/pricing.html
A $2 question is at the low end of questions that "can be answered
with a single link or a single piece of information." I have provided
two links, plus some guidance as to where else to look.
Your question is about work. This is work for me. I am earning $1.50
for this question. How much time would you work to make $1.50? Ten
minutes ($9 per hour)? Maybe less, say five minutes ($18 per hour)?
I'd guess that I spent fifteen minutes on this question ($6 per hour)
initially. Even with the potential for a small tip, the work has a
low economic value, which affects the enjoyment that one can get from
it. That's my philosophy anyway. The work improves for me when I can
make a sufficient amount of money to justify it. Sure, it's also fun,
but it is work.
Since you are interested in both work and Google Answers, I imagine
that you can understand my situation. It would take a fair amount of
time to examine all (or even some) of the potentially relevant sites
to determine which ones are truly relevant to one or more of your
criteria. You can decide whether you still want to request it, in
light of what I have said.
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Request for Answer Clarification by
markabe-ga
on
04 Aug 2003 03:26 PDT
All right, so how much would I need to pay to get a more comprehensive answer?
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Clarification of Answer by
justaskscott-ga
on
04 Aug 2003 05:54 PDT
My suggestion would be that you try an experiment: Post a separate
question starting at $2. Refer to this original question, and request
honest opinions from the Researchers and the public as to the economic
value of the work needed to do a proper job on the question. Once you
have received a sufficient amount of input, you can decide on the
price that you -- effectively the employer in this situation -- are
willing to pay for this work (perhaps factoring in that the Researcher
gets 75% of that amount). You can then either make an offer to a
particular Researcher to do this work, or leave it open to any
Researcher who feels that it is worth doing at that price.
By doing it this way, I imagine that you'll get good insights into the
Researcher "employment" market, as well as into your more general
question about work. (It seems better than my setting the price: I
would have one opinion, while other Researchers might disagree.)
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Request for Answer Clarification by
markabe-ga
on
12 Aug 2003 02:36 PDT
So I should ask a seperate question to find out how much I should
charge for this question? Doesn't that seem a little bit unnecesary?
Look, is there anyone out there who can answer this question without
stuffing me around? Just name your price, and I'll pay it if I can. I
just want an answer to this question.
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Clarification of Answer by
justaskscott-ga
on
13 Aug 2003 05:00 PDT
There is no one price that would be appropriate. If you look at the
Google Answers pricing guidelines, if you want a Researcher to spend
only about 30 minutes in total sorting through sites to see which ones
are responsive to your question (inevitably spending some of that time
on what turn out to be unresponsive sites) and then writing up the
results, $10-$15 is the typical price. If you're looking for 30
minutes to an hour of such research and writing, $20-$50 is more
appropriate. For 1, 2, or 4+ hours of such work, $50-$200 would be
the suggested price.
Because work is a broad topic, there are enough potential sites to
justify the higher prices (especially if one were to search on Google
Web Search and other search engines as well, and not just in the
Google Directory). But if you're not looking for a rather
comprehensive answer, a smaller price could be appropriate.
So that you don't have to repost the question, I would be happy to ask
the Google Answers Editors withdraw my answer to this question. (I
could repost the answer and follow-ups as a comment before doing so.)
Then you could reset the price if you wish, and seek any and all
takers. I felt good about my short answer to your $2 question -- but
someone with more background on this topic, and someone with whom
you're not disappointed in regard to this question (for which I
apologize), might give you a better answer to a higher priced
question.
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