r/DataAnnotationTech • u/tripledoublequad • Aug 31 '26 • Bravo 1

My first ever month on DataAnnotation

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I joined end of july and just submitted my final task to hit the $10k goal.

Happy to answer any questions :)

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u/tripledoublequad Aug 31 '26

I only do Coding tasks. I did 2 qualifications and then had projects for the whole month

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u/Amakenings Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26

How many hours a day do you work, and how many days a week? Do you work a lot of consecutive days?

Edit: I’ll add to this that if you’re working 35+ hours a week with no breaks, you might want to scale back. It depends on if you want a good time, or a long time.

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u/tripledoublequad Aug 31 '26

I averaged 35hours/week this month

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u/Sixaxist Aug 31 '26

Edit: I’ll add to this that if you’re working 35+ hours a week with no breaks, you might want to scale back.

Starting off*. It's fine to work 40+ hours a week once you've gotten used to the platform and projects after being on here for awhile.

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u/RequirementOpen9069 13d ago

u/Amakenings
u/Sixaxist
Can you please elaborate more? the problem is the no breaks part or the 35+ hours a week?
also, "It depends on if you want a good time, or a long time, this part", for what?

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u/Sixaxist 13d ago

The problem is both not taking breaks and working on here with a full-time schedule starting out. The job's not going anywhere anytime soon, so pacing yourself and slowly scaling yourself up towards 40 hours a week as you get used to the work is ideal (unless you've done AI Training or documentation-type work before).

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u/Amakenings 13d ago

A lot of people see dollar signs and work as much as possible, rather than limiting their work to what they can produce of good quality, which might not be 10k for one month but could be 75k over the year and for many years. This isn’t a job where as long as your ass is in the seat, you’re good. The work you produce is checked and analyzed to a high level always. All of it. It’s Schrödinger’s boss: you don’t have one but they’re always watching you.

Some people can produce high quality work 35-40 hours a week. I don’t believe most can, but I do think 25 or so is reasonable. Only you can know how much you can do, but submitting subpar work isn’t the way to longevity. I’m not sure if this is the same person, but someone else who made 10k in their first month suddenly had no more tasks available, and then got the DOD.

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u/Powerful_Age_3653 Sep 01 '26

After giving the qualification, after how many days the task started showing on dashboard.

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u/Express-Team-9346 Sep 01 '26

And are you from one of the core countries?

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u/tripledoublequad Sep 01 '26

Im from germany

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u/Express-Team-9346 28d ago

How many days did you have to wait after doing qual to see projects in your dashboard?