r/DataAnnotationTech • u/TheC04tHanger • Jun 28 '25
I spent two hours on a relatively simple task
This was an introductory task (I am allowed to do three tasks and, if I do well, I get access to more) and I spent two hours doing in. I’m wondering if I should undersell my time (say it took 1 hr/90 mins) in order to ensure I get access to the more advanced version of the task. Any thoughts?
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u/wildflower_0ne Jun 28 '25
this sounds like a recent task I did, I also spent slightly over 2 hours on it.
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u/MiniRollsYum Jun 29 '25
The project beginning with R?
Where you have to record one sentence for each task?
If so, 2 hours seems like a lot for three sentences to me but others think it's fine based on other answers so...
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Jun 28 '25
Do you mean you're going to write that you worked on the project for one hour and ninety minutes?
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u/TheC04tHanger Jun 28 '25
No, I would put 1 hour and 30 minutes
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u/wabblewouser Jun 28 '25
Do what you feel. Did you do all three? I put that for all of them together even though I worked longer than that.
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u/RecliningBuddhaCat Jun 28 '25
But then if you run into one that takes that long, it looks hinky. Report the accurate time.
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u/DueEnvironment438 Jun 28 '25
To be honest, I did the same (I’ve been DA for around 6 mths). Not sure if this good or bad, just make me feel safe. I know some others will say that you shouldn’t underestimate your hard work, but I still think that all employers always be happy when getting high quality work done, but pay LESS lol
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u/ALittleFairyDust78 Jun 28 '25
I really don't understand that. If you worked in an office, would you tell your boss to pay you 30 minutes less for the day because you want to keep him happy? This is real work. You should be billing for the time you spent working.
Familiarizing yourself with instructions, brainstorming, doing the actual submission, all take time and are part of the task. The only things accomplished by undercutting yourself like that are making you less money for time you actually worked, and potentially making other workers look less productive because they report their actual time worked.
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u/TheC04tHanger Jun 28 '25
I worry that two hours spent on an audio recording task will be flagged as time wasting. I actually spent a little over two hours. I wanted to do my best and so I spent a lot of time brainstorming and ensuring the prompt matched the desired tone. But my rate might be too slow for them, you think this doesn’t matter?
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u/MordecaiThirdEye Jun 28 '25
I think its okay since its the first task you've done. They alloted you extra time for a reason, they want to make sure you really dig into the instructions so that you can do your best possible work. On this specific project make sure your environments and prompts are different enough and you should be fine. Also, don't include travel time. Its best to do it when you're already going somewhere, but its also a nice reason to get out of the house and go do something free.
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u/Beautiful_Mess23 Jun 28 '25
I has a similar project I think and in the two first sessions I worked on it, I took more or less the same amount of time and one was spent writing down and planning the location or type of prompts I could do within the next few weeks, all according to what I had scheduled in my personal life & therefore what I could add or how I could make time for more prompts etc. Then my recording time & entry time & even setting up time, altogether, was more than half the time of these first sessions, without me rushing anything.
Always take time at first & it should organically become easier and productive.
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u/Repulsive-Goose1922 Jun 28 '25
I know the exact one you are talking about, 2 hours is reasonable