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I recently relocated from the US to Mexico, was happy to move, but sad to lose access to some of my beer money apps. So now that I've been back at beer money from a new location, here is a summary of the things that carried over, as well as the ones I started using and have made money with.

Apps That Carried Over

Amazon Shopper Panel

Now this one surprised me, but Amazon has a receipt scanning app where you link your account and you can upload receipts to get a little bit of money as Amazon credit at the end of the month. To get in, you should download the app and apply, as there may be a waitlist. In my case, since I registered in the US, my Mexican receipts will scan for USD and go to my Amazon US account, so I mainly use them for Kindle. If you register in Mexico, you will almost certainly get MXN instead. Reward ratios are about $0.10 per grocery receipt, and $0.7 for clothes stores and hardware stores. I definitely recommend it, since It's low effort for a nice direct payout. You'll also have occasional short surveys for an extra $0.1 or $0.25

Google Opinion Rewards

My OG, Google Opinion Rewards gives you credit to your Google Play balance (on Android at least) for answering different surveys based on your google search history and location history. Works just fine in many countries, and you have to make sure to change your country in Google Play to have it show up in the new currency. Go to your app store and get it, It's similar to OnePulse where you get a bit of credit for almost no time spent.

OnePulse

Now OnePulse is one of the few survey apps that I'd categorize as very worth it. The surveys are usually 15-40 second surveys and rewards start at $0.10 USD per survey, but scale up if you respond to other surveys that aren't for money. I'm earning $0.29 USD per survey now, and I am able to cash out $20 every month or other month via PayPal. You can only cash out $20 once per month, for a maximum of around $240 per year in USD, the first time it will take a while, then eventually It'll scale up. I set this up while in the US, and I know It's US and UK compatible, but I get my survey notifications outside of the US without any issues, and as long as you have a PayPal, you'll be able to cash out fine. You just need an email to sign up, and I don't remember needing a phone with them at all.

Non referral link

If you want to use my referral code, download the app on the App Store or Google Play and use code 2HML7L

PrimeOpinion

PrimeOpinion was one of the better survey/GP2 apps in the US, It's not as good in Mexico on desktop, but It's okay if you have the app on mobile. I was able to contact support and get my country switched the same day. The surveys definitely earn a similar amount, surprisingly enough, and you have a few offers for things like apps and games to top that off. It has a similar ratio of 100 coins = $1 USD. You can cash out through PayPal international starting at 116 coins or a variety of gift cards, of which there are a lot available in Mexico.

Non referral link

If you wanna use my referral code, use code UFS8IN within 24 hours of signing up.

PlaytestCloud

Playtesting games is fun and can be a good way to kill a bit of time while making a bit of money. With PlaytestCloud, you'll have a few tests available once in a blue moon if you're in Latin America, since most of their tests are for the US/UK/Australia, and when they are available you'll have to make sure to jump on them soon, or the test will have filled up. They do have an app that's decent at notifying you when a playtest is available, and they tend to be more widely available at the very early hours of the morning. Usual rates are $9 for 15 minutes, $11 for 30, or $16+ for an hour worth of playtesting, with a few that pay more and are done over a few days, and you'll get a redemption link about 72 hours after finishing your playtest.

New Apps That I Liked

NiceQuest

Nicequest has occasional surveys that give you the apps currency called Korus (KR), you can redeem KR for actual real world items such as little gadgets (a mixer, a fan, a selfie light, movie tickets, etc). You can earn about 5 KR per day, and you get a notification whenever a new survey is available, which realistically means you'll get, for example, a fan that costs 700 KR in about 140 days, or 3.5 months, or alternatively, a movie ticket that costs 55 KR in only 11 days! This isn't terrible, for actually getting a fan sent to you, or for getting movie tickets in exchange. Once again, it meets my principle of low effort for these rewards.

PollPay

This one seems a little more EU focused, as it has Amazon cards for DE, IT, and ES in Euros, or PayPal in Euros, however, you can still get some money sent to an MX PayPal or elsewhere that accepts PayPal, minus conversion fees. It's worth checking out and seeing if you get surveys in your locale, as I do get them in Mexico.

Non referral link

If you're interested in trying it out, and want to use my referral link, you can sign up through https://www.pollpay.app/?rb=MA81bNbm4IspZzqI&rp=1

Cheaf

Similar to Too Good To Go, Cheaf is an app where, at least in Mexico City, you can take a bag with lots of food that wasn't sold that day, mainly from bakeries, and it helps that Mexican bakeries are delicious! It's an okay way to save money and get a bag of goodies, and I feel like it can help others.

Card Shark was HARD.

It's essentially a minigame collection, based on real cheating tricks that were used in card games. It's set in France before the revolution and has a story you follow while cheating at cards and beating your opponents to progress the story.

At the same time, the difficulty is quite unforgiving, in the sense that each time you're introduced to increasingly complex tricks that you're expected to perform as fast as possible, otherwise other characters become suspicious and can call you out on the cheating. Sometimes, It's even better to throw a round in order to bring their suspicion down than just win all possible rounds and money. I found myself really racing against the clock trying to memorize the pattern of the tricks with my controller, as well as trying to do them well and fast.

Seriously, I think I struggled with this more than when I played the DS games, and that's still a compliment, since the minigames come with plenty of breaks in between.

It also has a fantastic art style, truly a sight to look at, paired with a decent sense of humor that makes up for a story that's very on rails and you feel like you have zero way to influence, making it much more like a minigame visual novel than anything else.

On sale, It's a fantastic deal, and I really think it made for a decent "brain puzzle" game for me, getting me ready for the old folks home in 60 years. Perhaps then I'll play it again to keep my memory and hand-eye coordination sharp.

I have great memories of playing AC 1, 2, and Brotherhood when I was in my tweens/teens. I also have great memories of playing AC 3 and Black Flag later on. The only game missing in that sequence was Revelations, or the game I couldn't afford to buy/didn't have friends to lend me on my 360 as a kid.

So of course I bought it, and the thing is, 15 years later, perhaps what was once cool to me just isn't as cool. And when I play the games I wanted to play as a kid now as a fully grown adult, I realize that for every Fallout: New Vegas that makes me think of it for a long time after finishing, there's always a Homefront or Ryse: Son of Rome, where there's just no substance to it.

AC: Revelations sits somewhere in the middle. The gameplay is quite fun, and refines the AC 2 formula to a great point in terms of climbing and parkour, and gives you just enough combat and escape options to make you feel very in control, while having a story that is interesting but didn't manage to grip me the way AC 2 or Black Flag did.

One of the reasons why has definitely more to do with character development, where AC 2 took the bulk of developing Ezio as a character, and Brotherhood/Revelations pretty much work more as DLC with more gameplay. Ezio is pretty much developed and done in Revelations, and the only piece of extra development here is him being ready to settle down romantically, and finding Altair's secrets being the last piece of his career before that.

Altair's memories are great to bring closure to his character, but the time skips have so much missing in-between that it really makes me wish they remade some of the PSP/mobile game missions that you're supposed to know about. All of this also feels interrupted by missions related to the assassin/templar feuds in Istanbul at the time, but which end up being much less interesting than the Ezio/Altair portions. The Desmond/present day sections are as boring as always, and broken on PC unless you go through the pains of recovering deleted files. Not worth talking much about.

All of this gets added to the fact that, over the years, perhaps the allure of violence in games has faded and often becomes excessive (blowing up a whole city like you do in one section of Revelations is much less impressive than a story of how a tragedy affects a single person). Edgy Assassin's Creed phrases such as "nothing is true, everything is permitted" also sound less cool now. Perhaps It's growing up, or perhaps this game was never a 10/10 game, both can be true at the same time. I don't regret the 20ish hours it took me to beat this game with some degree of completion, but I also think I can see where nostalgia ends, and where I have changed along the road.

Buenas tardes gente,

Soy Mexicano y ando viviendo en el gabacho por unos diez años entre estudiar y trabajar con el permiso que te dan después de graduado. Pero cuando me tocó renovar permiso resulta que como nací en uno de los 75 países cuyos procesos migratorios están pausados, me tocó dejar de trabajar porque no tengo autorización.

Estoy casado con una americana y resulta que la tarjeta verde a la que aplicamos por casarnos también está pausada por la misma razón, y puede ser que siga pausado ese proceso por unos dos años más, incluyendo mi habilidad para trabajar formalmente.

Me dieron una muy buena oferta de trabajo en CDMX, y estaría bueno tomarla, pero eso también involucraría irme allá y que mi esposa deje de trabajar en EEUU, y ps que le den un permiso de trabajo en México requiere que ella obtenga una oferta de trabajo y eso ya está complicado.

Entonces en esta coyuntura estamos decidiendo entre quién pausa su carrera por uno o dos años, si yo pauso mi carrera para que ella siga trabajando en EEUU, y mientras me invente hacer alguna maestría en linea y ver si puedo trabajar remotamente para un cliente en México, o si nos vamos a México, yo ganando parecido en CDMX a lo que ella gana acá en EEUU (porque tengo más años de experiencia) pero también sabiendo que eso significa que ella pause su carrera por uno o dos años hasta que quiera hacer su maestría a menos que tengamos super suerte.

No hay respuesta necesariamente correcta o incorrecta, y los criterios parecen ser más basados en vibras, por ejemplo si queremos una nueva aventura y que ella conozca CDMX (y que yo no pueda volver a EEUU por un rato) o si queremos quedarnos en las mismas acá en EEUU.

Total, no es un mal problema, ambos tenemos ofertas laborales buenas, ambos estaríamos manteniendo al otro y hay que aceptar eso, que para mí puede ser un poco más simple aceptarlo, pero mucho más aburrido ya que siento que tengo menos rumbo para crecer acá en EEUU y hay que mantener bajo perfil con como están las cosas.

Total, aprecio comentarios o simpatías. Feliz día a todas sus madres.

Hola!

Acabo de recibir una oferta de trabajo increíble en la CDMX, y volvería a vivir allá después de 10 años estudiando/trabajando en EEUU. Mi esposa es americana y vendría a mudarse conmigo con residencia temporal. Ella tiene tres años de experiencia trabajando en la industria farmacéutica después de su licenciatura en biología genética (principalmente en control de calidad, manufactura y documentación/creación de métodos).

Hemos tenido problemas encontrando oportunidades laborales para ella utilizando portales como Indeed o LinkedIn (parece haber pocos trabajos por lo que vemos) y me gustaría saber si hay otras maneras de conectarnos con la industria farmacéutica local o encontrar otras compañías que no conocemos aparte de las multinacionales americanas de las que sabemos (Thermo-Fisher, Pfizer, Merck?).

Aprecio cualquier ayuda, ¡Gracias!