I left work a little early today to go to Fieldwork Dallas to attend a 45 minute interview about skin medications for which I received $65! Now I call that a good use of my time.

I've enjoyed being a part of market research on occasions in the past with this company and I'm always excited, when, after the initial phone interview with me, the screener says "OK, you qualify, would you like to come in for an hour on ___day and we'll pay you $___ for participating?"

I've participated in quite a few studies over the past few years. One was about wine (I liked this one, as I not only got paid for it, but got a bottle of wine, too). Then there were the others about hotels and dashboards and potato chips (this one was pretty yucky as we actually had to taste "steak" flavored potato chips...yuck!). But on the whole, it's a neat experience. I get to be opinionated and someone actually *listens* to me and I even get paid for it! Is this a great country or what???