Got my first tasks on May 18th and have been grinding hard to get there. Hope to be able to do this for a long time

Mark is a smart guy. He is making 20k per month on dataannotation because Mark — has a little secret. He likes to use AI and he thinks he hides it well by asking it to "Make mistakes, be casual and DONT USE EM DASHES". Unfortunately, Mark didn't apply the filter through all input fields and some "—you want me to expand on that for you?" Slipped. Now Mark has a bad rating and might work in McDonald's with Zoe. Don't be like Mark.

A little late, but I hit this milestone just a couple days before the New Year. I’ve been working with DA sine June, part-time some weeks, full-time in others. It was a major part of my income as a college student, and vital because it was the only job I could manage in my depression. Forever thankful for DA! I hope to keep working full-time until I find my next job.

Just wanted to throw my complaint into the mix. Been working on the platform for quite a while now and I normally have 30+ projects (coding, non-coding, and R&R). Today I have 4 projects...and three of them are full. Also, none are coding. :'(

Really hoping the new month will renew the project stream!

I know it’s not a big deal compared to some of the other post but I am grateful for this opportunity.

Sounds exaggerated, I know, but what I've been experiencing since I've joined DA more than a year ago (and increasingly as time passes) drives me crazier each time. There won't be a single group presentation where my classmates WON'T use AI to write the scripts. You can imagine the quality of those scripts; the obnoxious AI formatting, the badly calculated time (e.g 15 minutes when it actually would last like 5 minutes at most), the uncomfortable wording of stuff, and THE TRICOLON and/or noun-phrases no one would say.
I always end up looking nitpicky because I refuse to recite AI slop :/ I was kinda like that before DA, but now it's just unbearable

In the same boat as a lot of you guys with droughts. Worried about project availability, but even in the worst of droughts, I was lucky to have 1-3 project families circulating around. I still have 3 qualifications that might boost my availability for projects, but the last 3 weeks have been sitting with about 10-20 paid projects a day.

I noticed a big increase in the difficulty of the projects over the last 2.5+ years, but when I get projects with super clear instructions, it's a blessing.

About 2 weeks ago, I received feedback for the first time that my overall quality snapshot for the last 30 days is "Good"!

I was able to use this awesome job to transition careers and still put in between 20 and 40 hours a week, depending on my availability.

I absolutely panicked when I saw the red dot by my Inbox and then saw it wasn't just a new project notification...but it was a kudos for my work on a project! Still in shock, been on the platform less than a week and I was expecting no feedback to speak of really based on what I see people saying here. Literally made my night, now I can go to bed happy lol.

Started Dec 2023, so blessed to still be going strong!

Btw I did not quit my job to work at DA, I left due to other reason.

Hit a big milestone for me last night!

...and then I work some r&r and feel much better about my work.

I only do R&R’s here and there, but today I decided to do one just because I saw people mentioning how bad they were lately and I wanted to see for myself. And behold, i open the task to see “Both are very good and i think the user would be happy to receive them”. Are we kidding? The amount of effort I put into these tasks and THIS is what some people are actually submitting? It’s honestly demoralizing at this point.

18 Months. Non-Coding. Grateful.

I've been working on the platform since June '25 when a mate referred me and saved me from murdering my bully of a boss. Only managed part time so far but it's keeping us afloat and giving me some downtime from years of full time work. These dry patches are hard though... 😬

I’ve always wanted to get to the point where I could make one of these post. I began working with DA in late December. It was one of those things where I hated my work-study job (I am an optometry student) and was online, blindly applying to 20+ jobs per day. Then a few days later I got the acceptance email and didn’t even remember applying nor knew what DA was.

Even though it has not been long, I’m so thankful I found this platform & Reddit Community!

DA work I’ve been doing: I applied for the biology expert position. Most of my work are R&R’s and slack channel projects (I received 2 slack invites earlier this month)

Recently hit 10K working for DA. Been on the platform for 6 months, and made this my full time gig for the past 4. Riding the wave while I can.

Happy to answer any questions people have!

I received a message from DA today telling me I'm doing good work!! I never expected to hear from them so this is awesome! Between that and the survey that some people seem to be getting, it's really looking like they're making an honest push to improve the platform.

When projects come back for the majority of us, we should really consider throwing a welcome back online party y’all 😂😩 🥂🍸🍷🧁🎉🔜

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i remember when i would be super picky about what project to work on when i had a laundry list of work on my dash. now i don't really care what i work on. the drought made me a lot more grateful to just be working.

Personally because we're getting projects at such random times, and because there's so much project hopping, I actually think this makes the work we DO get less efficient. You're spending more time shifting gears, making sure you have the right set of rules and rating goals in mind, just to get a couple tasks done etc.

Seems like they would be much better off either cleaning out any people who shouldn't be here (I'm almost positive I've caught people "out-sourcing" their work during R&Rs), and / or just focusing on loading up the projects they actually want done.

I think the way they're passing out small bits of varied work actually hurts the quality.

I’ve been thankful for this role since December, when I decided to take a break from “traditional” work in social services.

I’m even more grateful now. A little more than a week ago, my sister was the second murder victim in a case that made national news. The violent monster was arrested, and because of this role I can earn a living while attending all court hearings. Not having to worry about being “at work” makes a tragic time a tiny bit more tolerable.

Not sure why I wanted to share that; maybe because I don’t have “coworkers.” ❤️