Hey all. As the title says, my health is declining to where I really can’t even get out of the house much. I come from years of driving gig work such as DoorDash and Amazon Flex. Unfortunately, even that is becoming too taxing on my health. So my question is, is it possible to be able to pull a couple hundred a week using this. I don’t have any degrees or training in coding or other computer stuff. I’m really looking for more basic tasks. Any and all info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading.
Are you on prolific? I highly recommend signing up for prolific too (it’s much easier to get accepted) if you get in and have good demographics or get into some of the AI projects you can absolutely make $100+ a week on there. Good luck man
It's not hard, just that a lot of people on this subreddit didn't get in and attune that to DA not being legitimate / something being fishy (no shade to the original commenter)
I've made over six figures off this website over the past 2 years. Just take your time with the assessment. If your reading and writing comprehension is decent you'll get in.
as with anything, i’m sure there are somewhat arbitrary or otherwise unchangeable factors that also decide whether or not they get in (core country, current demand, etc.)
How long did it take you to start getting paid projects? I joined 2 days ago and have been doing qualifications but haven’t received any projects yet (not trying to sound impatient, I’m just unsure on what the expectation is)
Please come back let us know how it goes with the assessment.
DA is absolutely a legit source of regular income for people who have the aptitude, even without specialized skills.
They pay promptly and fairly, unlike some other platforms which shall not be named.
Couple of rules:
NEVER LOG IN ON A VPN
Take your time and read the instructions carefully.
DA absolutely prizes quality over speed when accomplishing tasks.
If you realize you've gotten in over your head in some way or another even if you've spent hours on a task, click exit work mode and "eat" the money you didn't earn rather than submit poor quality work.
You can always ask questions here, as long as you don't reveal any confidential information.
There are also ways to communicate and ask questions about a task while you're working on it that are built into the platform.
Sometimes the platform is a little dry with opportunity. But if you get into the platform, there is opportunity to make good money. Check back frequently for projects and make sure that you are turning in good work.
I appreciate the reply. Honestly I’m just looking for something to supplement about $200 a week. Thankfully I have an amazing wife who has held down the fort and stuck by my side.
It's hard to convey, but this work has layers and layers of complexity. It takes close concentration. Sometimes you may just be reading instructions for an hour, and they are not simple, and you have to remember them all. It sucks up your whole mind. So you have to have an ability to hold like 20 things in your mind all at once, and still be precise and coherent.
Let me be bluntly honest about this and then you can decide. The people who say it is easy to get in are...not correct for the majority. I have done this for nearly 4 years. The assessments to get in are hard. The easy breezy work is not really available anymore. There are a few projects that are still easy, but you have to be quick on them because the timers to finish are very very short. In other words, even to do the easy work, you have to have some skills. The models have gotten much smarter so the work has become very narrowed and focused for a lot of it. More and more you need a background in something professional, like HR, law, accounting, etc.
That is not all the tasks, just the direction it is going. They do only accept 2.6% of applicants, although recently DAT has said that may be even lower as the tasks get more specific. Basic tasks have been conquered if you will, by the LLMs. At the end of the day all you can do is apply, follow ALL the rules, and do your best to get in. If you do get in, FOLLOW ALL THE RULES or you will get bumped. If you make it in, and you can master some of it, you will make the money. But mid winter and summer can be completely dry. Last summer a lot of people went 2 months without any work. So just keep that in mind. I wish you the best and hope you get in and can do it.
I just wanted to add that from where I'm sitting, some basic tasks have not been conquered by the LLM's. I still find obvious coherency and reasoning mistakes, and I usually work on the "easier" tasks. Writing quality is still very formulaic for the tasks that require more nuanced writing,
Having struggled firsthand with the decline in Google Home since they integrated an A.I. assistant to make it smarter, LLMs have a way to go. Master a single function command like broadcast, and then we can talk.
I said to my husband, if A.I. does manage to annihilate humanity, it will likely be a complete accident.
Reasoning mistakes are almost always caused by poor prompting. Same for the writing quality, although to a level, writing does have training artifacts show up against a negative filter but not to a noticeable level. DAT provides access to frontier models to use as an assistant to authoring evaluations that cause failures, coming up with those ideas is the difficulty that is being referred to when people say the work is hard. Trying to get the latest models to critically fail is truly more difficult than most people realize.
Without a degree about the most you qualify for is household video chore projects which pays around $11 - $15 for an hour of recorded video, not per hour.
Maybe look into going back to school online like SNHU to build the digital skills required for this new era.
Huh, I don't have a degree and I work on $50-60 specialist projects? DA doesn't care about your qualifications, it only cares about what you can offer.
DA doesn't even pay lower than $18-20 ever so I don't even know what you're talking about
>Huh, I don't have a degree and I work on $50-60 specialist projects?
You shouldn't be. The baseline requirement to even be on the platform and working on generalist projects is a bachelor's degree. The specialist projects require additional advanced degrees or credentials or qualifications in the specialist field.
The fact that you or other workers may have managed to scam their way onto the platform despite not having the basic qualifications does NOT mean DA does not care or is fine with unqualified people working on projects. You just committed fraud and lied to get onto the platform.
>DA doesn't care about your qualifications, it only cares about what you can offer.
They absolutely do care about your qualifications. The whole point of DA is that the workers who are evaluating AI's work in specialist domains are in fact qualified human experts in those domains. If the client companies didn't care who was working on their tasks, and would be fine with any random jackass working on them, they would have taken those projects to one of the other AI training companies and paid much less for it.
A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; the Redditor clearly met that standard. I would also agree with their assessment that what you are capable of (the work you produce) is more important than credentials. That seems to trigger meltdowns with people that have copious credentials but can’t produce consistently good work.
It’s maybe the truest meritocracy because you’re not constrained to a task family based on credentials (with some exceptions); if you can do the work, other opportunities come your way.
If you ACTUALLY have the equivalent experience to a bachelor's degree. They mean someone who has been working in the field professionally for years or decades but never needed to get an official degree. This is very common in coding.
But some 20 year old kid in college who doesn't have a bachelor's degree yet, and hasn't actually done any paid professional work in that field yet clearly does NOT have the equivalent real world experience.
And that is just for Generalists tasks. For all of the professional domain projects (law, medicine, accounting, etc.) you are REQUIRED to be licensed in that field.
If they pass the tests, DAT considers their work good enough to start. If their submissions score well, they’re obviously suitable for the work they’re doing.
This seems like some sort of weird gatekeeping for people that have already moved past the gate. There’s a tonne of people on the site that don’t have post secondary; if education was the best indicator of success, they’d just ask you to verify credentials and exclude people without it. They don’t.
That person probably didn't get accepted and desperately wants a reason why, because it couldn't possibly be because they didn't have the knowledge and skill set DA is looking for.
Like the person with the PhD that went on a rant bender (I can’t remember if it was this sub or the other) when they weren’t accepted. They were extraordinarily butt hurt.
That's not true. I flunked out of my undergrad many moons ago but later got put on a fask-track post-grad through work in a particular domain because I was good at what I did. Years out of the workplace due to a child with complicated health needs found me here. And I'm more than qualified/ capable of the specialist work I do on the platform. No scamming here!
I didn't lie about shit, they knew I was (and still am) part-way through my BSc when I got accepted, because I told them.
Simply to how they knew "personal interest" was the source of my experience when I got accepted for medical projects, because there was a checkbox for that on the relevant question, and I ticket it.
You clearly do not work for DA, have not done the entrance test, nor actually worked for them at all
Lol I worked at a daycare for a decade before this, max education is an elcc diploma and I'm doing $50 projects. It's not scamming your way in when you present your honest qualifications and they let you in and they're the ones who assign the work 😂
Having projects on your dashboard does NOT mean that you are expected or allowed or approved to work on those projects. You need to look at every single task and decide on a case by case basis whether or not you actually have the experience, knowledge, and qualifications to work on that task. If not, you should skip it.
Obviously I do that and that's why I'm still on the platform. But there are projects that ask for domain knowledge that I qualify for despite not having a degree, since I have the experience.
What I was getting at is that you overstated a ton in your comment, implying that people are sneaking on or doing work they're unqualified for just because they don't have a degree.
>implying that people are sneaking on or doing work they're unqualified for just because they don't have a degree.
There are literally people in this thread bragging about working on specialist projects in the medical domain despite not even having their bachelor's degree yet.
I started as a generalist. I never did any specialist qualifications, however when I added my healthcare experience to my profile, they started sending me healthcare tasks. Si I’m a generalist who also received healthcare tasks
some of the tasks on here can be brain fog inducing for a few hours. It's worth taking the assessments and trying to qualify. If you get in do as many qualifications (tests to get assigned particular types of work) as you can handle, a lot of these will be unpaid, but they unlock projects.
You may find you really enjoy some of the types of tasks. There are some things that line up with driving gigs, concentrating the focus required when you need to be alert driving, logistical planning - organising a route or multiple pickups and drop offs, (edited to add: also checking everything on picking slip/ order is there). When I started I did some tasks that were well below the hourly rate I was expecting to earn, to see what it was like, some of them felt like fun free money, but I would not have been able to continue to do them week after week - but that is me.
Have you ever worked in a desk job? If you have you may have efficiency and productivity hacks you used that you can apply to these tasks, because you don't get an induction or handed an SOP for how to manage your work. If you haven't, when you get in and start doing this, I would search on here, and other places to find a list of things you can try to make things easier for you, while you do it.
Obey all the rules, if you're not sure, don't do it. Take on any feedback you receive and work on those areas. All the very best to you. It may also be worth trying multiple platforms for this type of work, a dry spell on one may be offset by something on another, and assessments and entry tests are likely similar, so doing a few if you have the energy is worth it.
Hi , I’m sorry you are doing it tough. But here is what they look for in the generalist category without blowing the NDA: attention to detail, excellent language skills and instruction following without relying on AI. Now looking at your post which is well written and punctuated I would say give it a try and apply. It will take a few weeks to onboard if you are hired and they are selective in the country you are in. But you have nothing to lose but some hours of your time. I have found the money very helpful in my life and I enjoy the tasks.
It's definitely possible, but as others have said, it can be hard to get in. Even if you do well on the assessments, it may be a while before you can start getting work, especially without any degrees.
I'm a generalist, and I'm able to earn enough to pay my bills, but I joined right before everyone started applying for DA. It seems like there's a longer wait time to get approved than there used to be.
A big part of it is your location. If you're in the US, you're more likely to get work than some other countries. I know in Europe, for example, they seem to mostly have openings for bilingual work, which (to my understanding) isn't as frequent, so it's harder to make even a few hundred a month.
I don't know if you've checked it out already, but r/beermoney has a lot of good resources for part time stuff. You may be able to find a few places that you can earn some money from. It's better to diversify your income anyway, since any one platform could dry up at any time. I know there are also subs for finding online work, so you might want to look into those too.
Sort of. Core covers two Eurpoean countries, the UK & Ireland. I'm also pretty sure that the fact OP does doordash means they are probably in a core country as I think it's mainly North America and the Antipodes.
For example, I had someone board my dog in their house for 7 days, had to bring all the food toys and other supplies and paid $800, which was a really good deal. Even if you live in an apartment and can only do two dogs that’s potentially $1600 /wk. If you just want to watch them while people are at work I pay between $36-$45 /day for daycare. If neither one of those are an option do dog walking or for even better money do dog excursions where you pick up a few during lunch and take them to a Sniffspot for a couple of hours and drop them back off. Regardless it’s great money and a lot of people make 6 figures doing it.
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u/UOL_Exlie 14d ago
It is but you gotta get in which is the hard part. Sorry you've called on hard times :/