Speaker 1: I'm going to be using Rev.com all day long just typing up captions banging away on my keyboard mindlessly just listening to audio and typing up what I'm hearing and I'm going to see if you can make more money doing that than you could if you had to go out to like a physical minimum wage nine-to-five job. Could you make more money just sat at home working on your laptop typing away whenever you feel like it? People make videos and it might be for YouTube or for any other platform and they want captions written for them. YouTube auto generates captions but sometimes they're not quite right so if you want perfect captions written by a real person you can send your video to Rev.com and pay per minute to have someone write up the captions manually. They say that for each minute of audio that you write the captions for you can make up to $1.10. If you were working a minimum wage job in the UK at the moment and you're age 23 or older you'd be making £9.50 per hour. Today I'm going to put in a standard eight hour shift nine to five to see if you can make more money writing captions from your laptop at home than you can in any minimum wage job. It's just about to turn nine. So let's head over to the computer. About two months ago I signed up for Rev.com. I had to do this like half an hour long signup test where they gave me some sample audio and I typed up the captions and they decided if I was like a good enough human being with English skills. They accepted me but they said there's going to be a super long waiting list so I've only just been accepted two months after that signup thing. Once they gave me my account I went through their onboarding process where you have to read this super long ridiculously long style guide showing you how to write captions exactly how they want you to write them. I spent the last 20 minutes fully like comprehensively reading this style guide and it's 18 pages, like 18 A4 pages of info. It took me 20 minutes to go through and properly digest it. After I'd got the hang of how Rev.com wanted me to write captions I had to prove that I hadn't just skipped through their style guide but I wrote the captions for two specific videos. The first job was a bit of a grind. I'm trying out this side hustle because I'm trying to get out of debt and then become a millionaire as fast as possible. So make sure to subscribe to Rev.com. I've just completed the first job. It took 30 solid minutes of focused work. I got paid but I did not get paid a lot. Only 98 cents. 28 minutes to earn just under $1. So far the minimum wage job is winning. I'm actually going to start a timer. The second of the two training jobs I had to do was for 48 cents. The first one took half an hour so I was hoping that I could do this one quite a bit faster. Just been smashing it out as fast as I can. 10 minutes 45 seconds so far. So I've written out all the captions and then I still have to sync them up with the videos. I'm not done yet. 20 minutes to get 50 cents. These two training jobs ended up taking me a total of 50 minutes and that was on top of spending half an hour already reading through that style guide so I was now really eating into my 9-5 shift. I can't say for sure just yet but it's kind of seeming like Rev.com is a bit like super cheap labor. They're just wanting people to work. They're super lazy. They're super low wages. Now that I was done with all the training I could choose which videos I wanted to write the captions for and basically I just wanted to start out with a video that was just a minute or two long so that I could be sure that I could finish it before the deadline because if I didn't I'd get a big black mark on my Rev.com account and I might get kicked off the platform which would just be a disaster and we'd never find out how much money we could make in a 9-5 shift. At that time the shortest video available for me to claim was four and a half minutes long and the deadline for that was in less than two hours and I just wasn't confident yet. I had to do all those captions within two hours so I refreshed the page and thank god a shorter video showed up at one and a half minutes long so I snapped that right up and I got to work. I just had to unclaim a job that I started because it was someone singing and it was their own song lyrics and it was not very clear what they were saying but I just cracked on and started on another job. We've got to make that cheddar. Oh man there was three people talking at the same time it was really hard to caption and not not worth the 50 cents or whatever per minute. I'm going to try and find one where there's just one person. Speaking here we go it's just a guy talking to the camera just him nothing else going on made 50 58 cents from that. I'm on the sixth minute of a seven minute video typing up the captions and it's just mind numbing mind numbingly boring and my eyes hurt because you have to really focus and stare at the screens like continuous focused sharp attention takes so long I mean even if it paid minimum wage. Which it isn't doing it wouldn't be worth it. Just finished a job that was doing captions for a seven minute video and that was a slog. Took an hour twenty for three dollars eighty five. How is anyone doing this like in what I guess in some countries three dollars an hour would be feasible. Just finished the last job of the day it is now well pretty much 5pm. Managed to do five jobs because it just takes so darn long. Made eight dollars fifteen cents. There are plenty of side hustles where you can make twenty dollars in one hour. I did a busking video not too long ago link down in the description and at one point I was making about twenty five dollars an hour. I could do that for one hour or you can type captions for ten hours.