What is 8 hours of your time worth?

I was recently invited to a “Mock jury” style focus group in person at a local business. The hours are 8:30-5:30 and will basically be listening to real lawyers present their sides of a pending case and then give my opinion in a group as though it was a real jury. The pay is $300 with meals provided and an hour lunch.

I have done one of these before several years ago and while it was interesting, I am doubting whether I should participate this time around. When I get an invite to an online focus group, it’s usually 2 hours maximum for around $100-$150 so almost half sometimes for very little time in comparison.

The downside is that I have no other invites for Focus group in July and no guarantee I will get any. If you do enough of them; the opportunities begin to dwindle for a “cool down” period with marketing recruiters.

Would $300 for this be worth it to you? Just looking for opinions or perspective from other people who do side hustle gigs. Edit: I will have to use a vacation day from my full time job, it’s during a week day.

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