A single hour and 5 comments isn't enough to know if you had a good opportunity or not. As an example, if I were to be hiring someone for a similar role, I can guarantee that within the first few tasks I assigned, I'd be including one that was way below your skill level, meant to see how you handle monotony and whether you'll react pretty much how you did, as well as a task way over your head, to see how you handle frustration, solve problems, and whether you give up, panic, get angry etc. I hope any future posters thinking of making a thread like this one read this.
See, this was entirely different than what you are talking about.
In our communication it was clear that he was looking me to do only blog commenting. Actually to test his new blog commenting platform.
Only from this simple sentence I was hesitant to take the job, because this tells me:
1) There is no opportunity there for me, other than blog commenting.
2) If I can do the job, there might not be work to be done at all. So if I alocate time to work for him, that time might not be filled with work, and I can miss another opportunity to work.
Even with these concerns, I gave it a shot, because it's an opportunity, which can lead anywhere eventually, who knows.
This brings us to the 2nd problem. His platform is in alpha to say the least.
Third problem was that the articles where I had to post were out of my reach. I had trouble understanding some of them. Several people complimented my Enlgish, so there's that...
This is a huge problem, because I get paid on approved comment. You say I made $5/h, but I didn't. There's a big chance that none of my comments gets approved and I don't make anything. This is out of my control, which makes the whole thing unstable on a whole new level.
You say you would test people with tasks that will require different mindset, just to see how the employee reacts. I really understand that. However there was no talk about other possibilities with him. He didn't say anything about other work. It was all "just test this thing and if it works out, I will see if I can get clients and we will see there what work there will be."
Should he tell me that it's just a gateway? I can see logic in either way. In the end it's his choice, but I have to make my decisions from the facts, as I see them.
In the end... you people are blaming me, because I wanted to take jobs that gave me more security, instead of opting in for a chance to do something in the future, which I consider extremely unfair.
