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It makes me SO mad when you click to do a quick one that says something like 9 minutes and when you get to the survey it says 25-30 minutes.

Agreed, and an excellent observation. It's like gambling in that you're spending time waiting for the jackpot, instead of spending money. I have one company for which I record comments on new websites before they're put online. They want people who use a certain software or are members of a particular health plan or are in a certain field of work. But you have to click them to see the quals. Each one is worth $10, but I might click on 100 of them before I qualify for one. When you have a conventional job, you're paid for all of your time. With this kind of work, you're never reimbursed for time between tasks. And yet I do them to remain my own boss and not have to travel to work. I've already had a few conventional careers, and this just supplements my Social Security.

Warn.

I hear what you’re saying about remaining your own boss and not having to travel to work. I’m retired with a pension, and do these surveys for beer money and travel.

Conscious

You are correct on the mother's maiden name question. That was what the university dept. said. They were not aware that that is a common account security question / answer. They removed it.

I applied for the census for an office job, and emphasized that when they called again. But no work has appeared. I did the door-to-door 40 years ago, and it makes sense that some people in the poorer neighborhoods haven't sent their forms in and must be visited. Either they found it too complicated or have dicey immigration status or had problem with English or don't have internet.

Many are from grad students doing their thesis or from heads of psychology depts. These are more psych studies than surveys. They slow down in July and pick up again in Sept. Despite some awkwardness in the questions, they're perfectly legit. If there's a "no-way-out" question, I stop the survey and email the sender. You're right about their being frustrating. The one asking for your mother's maiden name either wants to match you to a previous survey, or will have a follow-up survey at a future time, and just wants to identify you. Some surveys are identical because they use standard survey templates. I do them on both Prolific and Amazon Mechanical Turk, and I've done some hundreds of times, which makes them fast and easy.

I don't know what Swagups even are. Isn't that ridiculous because I have been with them for several years. I did have an issue with no points, and I sent a ticket in for it. It took some time, but they did get back to me. It might be because people are working from home, I don't know for certain. I go back to work next week and I won't be doing all of the surveys like I did for the past 5 months.

I remember when I used to be able to cash out once a month with One Opinion those were the good old days

I have been trying to cash out for 3 days. I get a successful confirmation for when they call me and then when I go to confirm my award, I get an error message. I sent them an email and have heard nothing back. I even posted on their Facebook page. Someone else had posted that they were having the same issue. The last time I redeemed some of my points the same thing happened but they cleared it up in a day.