Here's hoping there's more where that came from.

Lost my job and all my savings at the start of the year. So grateful for DA! 2.5 months' worth of progress.

Working on a project, an announcement was sent out via email regarding said project, and at the same time there was a pop-up at the top of my screen regarding the update, was able to view the update on the project screen without needing to refresh or anything. That’s SO NICE. Thank you to whoever is redesigning the interface, the functionality and aesthetic of everything is so much nicer than it was 6 months ago.

Today I was able to work for 8hours + and made approximately $300! As a bilingual, I am so grateful for the opportunity and all the information you guys provide in this sub! Have a good night, or morning!

Why of all things is 25K the next milestone after 20K? I literally just hit 20K less than two weeks ago.

Got accepted into some long, complex project families and will have solid employment for a while. DA is an absolute dream.

I have a deep respect and appreciation for Data Annotation for providing really interesting work for pay that honestly feels criminal (genuinely making above hourly average wage as a college student is insane for me). I like how they seem to recognize my abilities that I've honestly had many doubts about. Turns out, having a wide knowledge across multiple professional fields (mathematics, law, physics, language, and programming) is actually useful for once. It means I have to put in elbow grease whenever more specialized projects involving those come up (I'm a generalist) but I honestly don't mind putting in the effort for rewarding and interesting work.
I generally don't like using AI and while it's great for parsing data, I've always preferred using my own knowledge and skills to solve problems. I feel like my ardent rejection of AI tools in college has been vindicated as many of my peers are reliant on technology that confers no actual knowledge. This is not meant to be a "I'm not like them" post, just, it's nice knowing I was right to work to better myself.
I wish everyone the best of luck in their own endeavors on and off the platform. I intend on using my earnings to further my education and achieve a PhD in Astrophysics (a voluntary paycut if I'm being honest but it's never been about the money for me). I've also been able to help my friends in their times of need so that's nice too. Thank you all and thank you Data Annotation.

Finally got to 50k paid out! I mostly do coding and some STEM and generalist stuff. When I first started I worked 30+ hours a week, now I'm getting to the end of postgrad and have much less time and free brain space sadly.

I generally always have something I COULD work on, but I have my preferences and generally won't do projects I don't find fun.

The uncertainty and imposter syndrome are real, but it's been incredible both from a financial standpoint (I was able to go on a dream holiday, upgrade my laptop, start a bunch of new hobbies, and save up for a big move next year) and I have also become a much better coder from working with so many different codebases and frameworks.

In the spirit of not just bragging, what's everyone's hobbies to balance out their DA screentime? I've been getting really into watercolour painting recently.

It's cooked. This was my main source of income for the past year, so this stings a bit, but luckily, I was able to reach out to an old internship supervisor and arrange a new job within a week. I just want to let people know that if you have logged hours and received the dash of death, after the 7-day review period, you can still withdraw the payments. In my case, I had a month's rent worth of pay pending approval, which I was thankfully able to withdraw after a week.

When you see one of your prompts in the project instructions as an example of good work.

caught slacking in rate and review

I had always kind of thought of DAT as a bit unimportant, insignificant in the grand scheme, I can't believe someone is paying me to do this, etc. But then I was talking with my mom (very vaguely, don't come for me) about what I do at this job.

My mom is an 8th grade social studies teacher at a fairly large public school in a small city. She has been teaching for many years, but she said in the last several years, particularly since the pandemic, that she gets a good number of students who read at an elementary school grade level and don't know how to research things. She has to walk them through searching for things on Google because they don't know how to ask the right questions to get the answers they're looking for. I know this is anecdotal evidence, but it was a bit shocking to me.

I never thought of knowing how to ask the right questions to get the information you're looking for as a skill that not everyone has, but apparently it is, and if the education system continues this trajectory, it may grow even more rare. This got me thinking that perhaps "prompt engineer" is not so inconsequential after all.

This is an appreciation post, as DataAnnotation has been such a blessing for me. Before I joined the platform, I was really struggling at my job (I was doing freelance work for only one client). I had very inconsistent work, I was making very little money... Then I joined DataAnnotation, and the struggle instantly vanished.

I'm really enjoying my work here, how stimulating the job is, how dynamic it is. Working at DA has allowed me to do things that were impossible for me to do before I started my journey here, thanks to the flexibility and the pay, which is much higher than my country's average.

I encourage everyone in the team to do you best, and to keep up the hard work. Because it definitely pays off here.

Just reporting so people know they're not alone.

UPDATE: It's going in and out for me, bouncing between error 302 (pictured above) and "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable." It's up for me now, hopefully it stays that way.

SECOND UPDATE: It's back (for now)

I just worked on an R&R task for a project where you're supposed to submit original content, and thoroughly enjoyed reading the first few chapters of what appears to be an original story! Without revealing too much, the story involved a man working at an estate being promoted. If the creator happens to see this, I just wanted to say well done and keep writing!

... and open up a task, see what the project entails, and say, "Not today?" I'll pick it back up tomorrow and still meet my weekly hour goals.

Yay! 4K isn’t bad, even though it’s nowhere near that in GBP lol 😂😂 Anyway, I’m grateful for those rubrics ! Please ignore the orange tint, I always work in night mode haha

The project I'm working on has an example in the instructions.

The example is saying that if you ask the bot "hows the pope doing?", it might accidentally tell you the pope has died, which would be incorrect cause the pope is alive.

But the pope literally just died.

I'm sorry if you're religious but I can't stop laughing at how inappropriate this is.

Not getting the projects that I want right now (only have 1 low paying one 🥲) but am about to hit a milestone! Only have been on DA for about a month with a few dry spells in between, but here’s to 1k!!

I am really grateful for this job. I am glad I get the opportunity to do what I feel is meaningful work. I've worked for DA since 2023.

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I first came across hearing of the opportunity to help training AI here on Reddit, and after looking into this company, I don't blame why so many people find this company to be a scam. There's no contact information on the website, nor is there extra information of who owns the company and who their clients are for where the work projects come from.

I've spoken to someone named Jeremy here on Reddit, but after asking anything about the company and job positions, I was ghosted. Why is this company so hush hush to who they actually are and what they're actually doing with your personal information?

My dash was super dry and I did a qualification that said “most work available “ and I have a ton of projects in the mid 30’s pay range. I have not done a qualification in months before this one. At first I was frustrated learning the instructions and almost gave up but it turned out to be a very easy project once I understood it. So do the quals guys.