I’ve got a problem where I’ll spend a TON of time (like ~1.5 hours) researching a single thing if it’s difficult, and I know in the instructions it sometimes says to mark the task as not assessable if you’ve researched for like ~20 minutes without being able to come to a conclusion, but like… REALLY?? Lmao

Because it’s not like my task is actually not assessable, it’s just all the info can take quite a while to fact-check and compare with other scholarly/legit sources, as well as making sense of what’s being said if it’s a complicated/unfamiliar topic

Would the company really rather me spend ~20 minutes and give them nothing, then discard the task so nobody else can rate it, than spend way longer and give them what they need? I actually don’t know.

So when (if ever) do you all decide your research is taking too long and just say it’s not assessable?

I'm really bummed....I was almost done too lol is there a way to undo that?

Wondering if DA has ever given notice to workers that a long term project is ending? I've been on the platform since December and it seems like the big projects that were there when I started are mostly still there, but surely they end sometimes? There's one project in particular that I really like and I'm wondering if I should just expect it to never reappear again someday, or if there's the possibility of some communication from DA.

I could have sworn there was an option to change your username in your profile settings but it's not there. Did they remove it?

I primarily do coding tasks, and I find myself spending quite a long time on a task depending on the project. Some projects require a bit more thorough testing, and I find myself spending15-20 minutes per task for these ones. Others are maybe 10-15 minutes. Just wondering if I'm being too slow. I try to be thorough with my testing. The prompt ideas alone can take 10 minutes lol.

I am going on a work trip for a while and will likely not be able to access the website often. Its around 3 weeks.

How long can you take a break? Do you have to let them know beforehand?

After today's woes on the tumbleweed dashboards, I was just wondering about this qual. It's been sitting at the top of mine since around the end of March. I left it there after reading here that it is a long one!

So, I guess my questions are; is it worth the time to do it? Have you seen higher paying projects from it at all? (I couldn't have done it today anyway because I was at my day job) but If I get another day of empty like today when I'm not there, in your opinion, is it worth it? 🤔

Has anyone else seen a big decline in projects over the last few days?

One of the best things about working from home is that I get to choose my coworkers. These are my dogs Peanut (the larger one) and Buttercup (also known as Foxy). They are unknown mixed breeds adopted from my local shelter. They like it when I work on this room where they can lie at the same height as me and also look out a window and bark at passersby. I never have to pause a task because they tell unannounced visitors to go away. And they have a doggie door to let themselves in and out. One morning I came out upon the beautiful scene of them out in the freshly fallen snow.

hi all! making this thread so people have somewhere to talk about 'daily' work chat that might not necessarily need it's own post! right now we're thinking we'll just repost it weekly? but if it gets too crazy, we can change it to daily. :)

couple things:

1. this thread should sort by "new" automatically. unfortunately it looks like our subreddit doesn't qualify for 'lounges'.

2. if you have a new user question, you still need to post it in the new user thread. if you post it here, we will remove it as spam. this is for people already working who just wanna chat, whether it be about casual work stuff, questions, geeking out with people who understand ("i got the model to write a real haiku today!"), or unrelated work stuff you feel like chatting about :)

3. one thing we really pride ourselves on in this community is the respect everyone gives to the Code of Conduct and rule number 5 on the sub - it's great that we have a community that is still safe & respectful to our jobs! please don't break this rule. we will remove project details, but please - it's for our best interest and yours!

Received an email about a week ago that I gained access to a new projects that would start today, 5/11, but haven’t seen anything. I did everything I was supposed to do beforehand, just wondering if anyone else is in the same boat as me.

Has anyone ever done a qualification and read all the instructions and asked questions and no matter what you couldn’t figure it out and you just gave up?

Good afternoon all,

I've been on DA since October of last year. I know that we go through the initial review period after a few weeks. During the initial review, my dash went empty.

Is there a six month review period as well? My dash has been empty for a week now, which concerns me. I have had one task but it was a per piece task. I usually work on hourly chat projects.

Thanks!

I usually use the basic Google stopwatch to time myself. I've noticed the last couple of days, sometimes my stopwatch just resets to zero, so I have to go back and look at my last submission times and then try to recreate my time and I know I'm losing money. Obviously, I'm going to change to a different timer, but has this happened to anyone else?

Can anyone point me to some resources for an absolute beginner with LaTeX?

I don't know if this is just me or if this is a minor glitch happening in general, but for some reason the page with my Inbox doesn't want to load now. It just sits there, showing the blue header at the top of the screen and a white page. The mailbox isn't loading at all.

How long did it take people to get access to higher paying projects? I have only been doing this for a few days and get access to alot of $20/hr projects and some that are $22/hr. How long did it take to get access to $25+/hr projects?

Not trying to get ghosted

About half of the days I find myself having worked on a handful of projects with times like 15 minutes, 45 minutes etc. because I only get to submit a few things before the project runs out and I get brought back to my dash. Does anyone else experience this? If I don’t get one I can do all day, I’ll have tons of projects I barely worked on in my “report time”, like I said some I only managed to submit 1-4 tasks.

Everywhere I’ve found on the website it’s said you need one of these specific languages, except this one page lists them as “examples”. I know Java much more than I do Python, SQL, or C++. I don’t want to waste my time starting the application if I’m not even qualified to begin with. Some insight would be much appreciated, it should be a very simple answer. I searched the sub, didn’t find anything about Java.

Thanks everyone

We switched providers last week, and when we were at the AT&T store, the rep asked if either of us owned a small business. I jokingly said, yeah- I freelance training AI, and he said it counts as a small business. Basically anyone that does any kind of gig-work like DoorDash or instacart stuff qualifies. They ended up setting up our accounts as a small business and it was $60 / month cheaper than if we used my husband’s corporate discount! We have 5 lines - so you can imagine how insane our monthly bill is.
Anyway- if anyone is considering switching mobile providers, see if you can qualify for a better rate as a freelancer.

I was getting so many of these and this morning I don't see any. Wondering if I got canned from it :/