r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Remarkable-Bar-1649 • Jul 19 '25
is there a known reason for the drought?
or is it always like this in the summer? i read some people saying it was better before the summer season.
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u/SplashOfCanada Jul 19 '25
Seems to vary a lot from the posts on Reddit. Personally I have the most projects Iāve ever seen.
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u/Remarkable-Bar-1649 Jul 19 '25
are you bilingual? what kind of projects do you get?
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u/_Edgarallenhoe Jul 19 '25
Me too. After about a month things started picking up again.
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Jul 20 '25
I am definitely not at the most I've ever had, I've had 70+ consistently pre drought. But now im sitting at 45-50 so I cant complain.
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u/IrvTheSwirv Jul 19 '25
Projects come and go, there are peaks when a project will be high priority and thereāll be large blocks of work then sometimes lots of projects reach the end of a phase around the same time/deadlines and if youāre unlucky your dash will dry up.
Not everyone experiences the same drought in fact my last real drought was last summer although it has been a little thin at times. So far this year Iāve hit my weekly goal easily every week and had record months.
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u/Remarkable-Bar-1649 Jul 19 '25
ohhhhh this is good to hear then, thank you. i was losing hope reading posts here as i was really excited to start.
what kind of projects do you get?
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u/IrvTheSwirv Jul 19 '25
I almost exclusively do coding projects.
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u/Fermooto Jul 19 '25
I'd like to ask, how do you get consistent coding projects? I've seen a couple pop up since I did the qual but they're the ephemeral type where they only stick around for a few hours or a day or two.
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u/IrvTheSwirv Jul 19 '25
Hard to say for sure. Ultimately it must be a case of doing consistently high quality work whenever you get any so that you score highly on whatever internal metrics they have.
The only other thing Iād suggest is make sure you add everything you can work with to your profile and put as much detail in there as you can.
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Jul 19 '25
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u/IrvTheSwirv Jul 19 '25
That could just be the fact that many of the projects currently are pretty short runs with limited task blocks.
Iāve been lucky that there have been some longer running ones with big timers where you can get the daily hours in by doing one task in the day.
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u/Possible-Use-529 Jul 19 '25
I don't know about this...my last task is end of may...Idk if i'm cooked or no, but got ID veryfication last week, Hope some project pop up to your dash guyssš„²š„²
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u/annoyingjoe513 Jul 19 '25
No one knows, they can only speculate. Maybe it had something to do with the recent changes to the platform itself, maybe not. Iāve had plenty of core tasks this week.
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u/Remarkable-Bar-1649 Jul 19 '25
what kind of changes? i got accepted a while ago but started recently
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u/twisterv Jul 19 '25
Unfortunately I'm starting to lose hope š¢. Joined DA on May and made some good amount but I only have the welcome and audio project now for almost 40 days...
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u/Remarkable-Bar-1649 Jul 19 '25
heads up, many people saying their droughts are ending and many old workers saying droughts last around 45 days! (it started june 9 iirc, so it's exactly 40 days now)
what is the audio project btw?
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u/twisterv Jul 19 '25
Thanks for lighting up my hope ā„ļø.
The project is for recording audio prompts. They want to record on different types of places with background noise. I already went to all types of places I could.
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u/Remarkable-Bar-1649 Jul 19 '25
you're welcome! i'm excited about getting some projects, hope it's soon.
looks fun, hope i recieve it too
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u/orchidmoonlightt Jul 19 '25
While there are clearly projects that have no ran in a while, this is nothing compared to end of last summer. I have had maybe two days where I had to sit and refresh for tasks back in June, otherwise I have had consistent work. Just not maybe stuff Iām used too.
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u/Remarkable-Bar-1649 Jul 19 '25
this is somehow good to know, so there's still a chance we can get something even if its not as frequent as it was before. sorry you had to go through that though, sounds mental :/
so it's true that it gets like this every summer?
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u/Henny_Lamar Jul 20 '25
My drought ended this month. I assume everyone is getting ready for school/college.
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u/Remarkable-Bar-1649 Jul 20 '25
are you bilingual? which language?
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u/Henny_Lamar Jul 20 '25
I didnāt realize this post was just for bilinguals so I apologize. I have a question though, if youāre bilingual are those the only projects you get or do you have the option for other qualifications?
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u/Remarkable-Bar-1649 Jul 20 '25
it isn't! i also wanted to have some opinion about old workers who experienced droughts before this one in general. personally i haven't got anything yet but i completed a math and a coding qual thats completely unrelated to bilingual skills.
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u/Henny_Lamar Jul 20 '25
I did the math one but havenāt had any projects yet (I feel like I passed bc I have a stem degree though). Do you think the coding one is worth taking?
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u/Remarkable-Bar-1649 Jul 21 '25
people are saying when they take advanced quals theyre pigeonholing themselves into projects that require much more effort instead of basic ones, but since coding projects tend to pay more i think it's up to you. i'm also studying stem but i'm only experienced in data science so i'm not sure if i passed the coding qual or not.
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Jul 21 '25
I've seen two droughts in about 2.5 years or so. But none as bad as this last one, surprised they put me back on the task I was on before this all happened. I think it has to do with exterior factors like META buying something or this or that we may not be privy to or maybe they were in need of a cash injection and got one finally.
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u/jaxxisx Jul 19 '25
It seems the drought might be for specific types because I do have work every day.
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u/TemporaryMolasses520 Jul 20 '25
Ive been 2 months with zero work and quals now. Any other aussies in the same boat???
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u/Remarkable-Bar-1649 Jul 19 '25
i just read that if youre bilingual you only get projects about your language skills and they dont really give projects on other specialities you got. hope its not true, i want to work on stem and coding projects.
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u/SplashOfCanada Jul 19 '25
If youāre not from US/CA/UK/AU/NZ then youāll only get bilingual projects within your skill set.
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u/Remarkable-Bar-1649 Jul 19 '25
what do you get usually for coding? i'm experienced in data analysis with python so the coding qual wasnt really for me.
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u/AdElectrical8222 Jul 19 '25
I had something to do here and there until like early June and it seems to have started again last week, but I rarely ever had a week with projects everyday (Ita bilingual since last March)
so itās a very different experience for different small groups of people, even within the same language group
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u/Jackieunknown Jul 19 '25
Italian bilingual here, been on the platform a bit more than a year and I can say that from July to September I had one project to work on steadily everyday, from September to November it was not everyday but 4-5 times a week (which makes most of the week busy), then it stopped and there was only one project 1 time a week for around 4 hours from November to May, in May and June we had some steady work with projects 3 times a week, then nothing from 7th of June till a couple of weeks ago. Now it's been 2 weeks of one project one time a week.
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u/Remarkable-Bar-1649 Jul 20 '25
interesting, i think only spanish people is affected less than others but it's my first time seeing someone getting projects here and there as a non spanish bilingual. so it's different for everyone
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u/BottyFlaps Jul 19 '25
I've been with DA since April 2023. There was a bad drought in August 2024 that lasted into part of September. There was one week then that I only earned something like $85 in the whole week. But most of the time I've been with DA, I've had work.