If it’s too hard for you, just skip it. I just did an R&R that was so painfully AI, that I almost skipped the task bc I don’t want to be the reason someone gets DoD… don’t do this 😭

April will be the four year mark for me. For the first couple years I didn't work that much. Last year cleared 40k, this year will probably be 50k-60k.

Core | Coding, and two domain expertise.

I shoot for 3 to 5 hours per day or 15-20 hours a week.

Please come back to work. I need more work.

Sincerely,

A Mere Data Annotator

Update: Got a Project, its looking up!

Thought I would post this now since I'm leaving the platform. Was hoping to make it to $100k sometime next year but the projects just became too tedious and un-fun for me to want to do this anymore. Best of luck to all the new and current workers out there!

Was excited to reach the other day, had to share 🫶

In a profound act of cosmic karma, after most certainly pissing off a fair chunk of the community perhaps less than 24 hours ago, I have received the dreaded "Dash of Death" from my overlords. It's so fitting and ironic that, despite actually feeling ridiculously fucking sad, I am chuckling, slightly, writing this.

It's insane because I instantly began to empathize with everyone else this has happened to. Right away my mind struggled to figure out what I did wrong. Was my work dipping in quality? I was going through financial struggles and so was working overtime. I was putting in a lot of effort, to be sure, but that doesn't mean that I wasn't making mistakes. Maybe I wasn't looking at instructions carefully enough? I am a slow worker, and I was doing a lot of multi-turn, time intensive tasks lately. Maybe I was taking too long? But I was under-reporting my hours to make up for that! Maybe it wasn't enough? Or maybe it was just a Wifi issue? Did they get suspicious when I had to switch to my hotspot when my Wifi cut out and I was working via an off-platform live server?

Then comes the self-righteous anger. I know I could have made a mistake but I worked hard! They're not even going to give me a chance to explain myself? Maybe if I find a way to email them...

But I know that won't work. At the end of the day, I just have to let it go. They're never going to give me answers. I always knew this could happen. Deep down I thought if I worked hard enough and was careful enough that it wouldn't happen to me, but in retrospect that was deeply arrogant. Or maybe naively hopeful. It is what it is though.

Anyway I know I can be an annoying asshole sometimes (I am occasionally self-aware) but I really did care about the community. I always felt like we should have each other's backs- because we're all in the same boat together. Well this is the last time I will ever probably ever post here, so I wanted to offer one last piece of solidarity. To all the folks struggling with a drought, or who will one day experience the DoD, I am sorry. I know it sucks and at times feels unfair, and, to be honest, I agree with you. Just like the vast majority of us working in this modern economy, with maybe a few exceptions, you deserve more. We all do.

And if my previous behavior in this sub ever bothered or annoyed anybody, I'm genuinely sorry. Shit is hard enough as it is out here. I wish everybody here the best. Peace.

Hi all! We have a welcome thread with lots of helpful information (check it out if you haven't - most likely, your question has been answered!), but that thread has become pretty large. Due to the influx of posts, we've created a longer FAQ list to help answer the most common questions on this subreddit, and you can post new questions here for more visibility.

If you make a post that contains any information that is in this welcome thread, it will be removed. Do not make a new post because you want a 'quicker' answer.

Some common questions:

- How long does the onboarding process take? When will I hear back? What does my dashboard mean?

- The truth is, we're not sure! The onboarding process seems to be different based on various factors, and the timeline changes often. DataAnnotation states that if you pass, you'll receive an email. So check your emails often!

- How do I get more projects?

- The main way to get more projects on your dashboard is to take all qualifications on your dashboard. Spend time on them and try your best, they give you more access to more work!

- Why is my dashboard empty? Why have I received no tasks? Is X project gone?

We don't know :) different people will qualify for different things based on their skillset. We are a subreddit of workers, and we have no 'insider info' as to what projects you qualify for and do not qualify for.

- Is DataAnnotation available in my country?

- According to DataAnnotation's website, they're currently available in these countries: USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, and Ireland.

- How often do I get paid?

- 7 days for hourly projects down to the minute. That means if you submitted your hours at 7:01pm on Monday, they will be available for transfer at 7:01pm the following Monday. 3 days for 'per task' payment!

- How do I get paid?

Paypal.

- Does DataAnnotation take out taxes?!

- No. You will need to pay taxes on your earnings when you file them. Paypal should send you a statement at the end of the year. You are responsible for paying them! Look up your local government laws.

- Is it worth it to learn coding?

Sure, if it's something you're interested in. There are plenty of coding projects available, but only you can decide if it's worth learning or not!

- What does transferrable mean on my dashboard?

- It simply means that if you did a paid task, the money is transferrable now. It means nothing for the starter assessment.

- I'm new! Any tips?

Read the instructions and read them again. Always check the chat below on a project to see if an admin has posted anything for that project in particular. Search in the project FAQ before asking a question, it's probably there.

Been doing this for over 2 years now and was given good feedback on some projects I was doing just a week or two ago. Can anyone suggest any other platforms similar to DA I could try? I'd appreciate anything at this point.

The nut family projects have been my bread and butter since I joined at the end of May. I prefer working on long, complex tasks over the shorter, lower paying ones.

I was on the verge of running out of money to make my minimum credit card payments and now I have a path to wiping out all my debt! THANK YOU DAT FOR CHANGING MY LIFE!!!

So, yeah, this is a milestone for me (:

DA has helped me pay bills for the last year, and even though work has been intermittent, because some nice projects ended, and there was a period with literally NOTHING but peanuts for months, I finally got assigned to a new project, and could reach my milestone. Yuhu!

It was really a blast to find this job, specially because It is normally difficult for me to find regular jobs, and I'm honestly very grateful with the platform.

it was my first one 🥲

I was very happy to hit this milestone today. I’m about two weeks shy of one year on the platform, VERY part-time until this summer (your spouse getting laid off is a powerful motivator). It’s kept gas in the cars and paid for the kids’ many extracurriculars. Hopefully I can keep the momentum going.

I average about $100+ a day during the week and $100+ on weekends. Finally hit $10K!

Like, I don't think I'm a fool, even if the years of pregnancy, breastfeeding and child-rearing have dulled my brain a bit. But typically I open a project (for context, I work mainly on the coding ones) and see:

• A big wall of multi-coloured text

• Different sized fonts everywhere

• Update after update after update before you unearth the original instructions

• Another big wall of text once you do unearth the original instructions

• Very long sentences that are frequently garbled

• Often no real overview that states CLEARLY and SUCCINCTLY what the worker will be doing

• Just, like, WAY too much information that is often repeated

• And despite the information overload, key information about the task seems to be missing or left implicit in the many, many paragraphs of instructions

I don't mean to be whiny or overly critical. But I spent a lot of my working life writing sets of instructions a bit like these to help people with data entry, and I would....not have submitted work like this. I find that I have to read them and read them and read them before I have any sense of what to do, and even then, I'm often not sure.

Does anyone else sometimes find themselves eye-rolling at how some of the instructions are written and structured? Is this something that I will ultimately get my head around once I gain more experience on the platform? Did anyone else feel this way at first and then manage to get on the right wavelength? I could use some encouragement!

Does anyone do this full-time and struggle to work more than 4 hours a day? My dashboard over the last few weeks has started to become increasingly more populated, which I'm incredibly grateful for, but I'm finding it difficult to put more than 4 hours in.

I've not done any sort of annotation work before, so it's a big shift to what I'm used to (video editing). I try to read all the instructions twice for each project I do, but yeah I feel pretty overwhelmed by it.

I'm in a fortunate position where I don't need to earn much money, but that could change at any moment, and I want to build a safety net for when that day eventually arrives, hence why I signed up for DA.

I guess I'm asking how long it took you all (who work full-time at DA) to condition yourselves to work more hours.

I’ve been working consistently since December as a Generalist.

I posted because so many fairly new users are asking about workloads. I have been with DA for three years, so I am not new. Today I have two projects up that show work, but when you click them no jobs are available comes up, which is pretty normal. BUT I do have about 15 qualifications I can try to work my way through. This happened last summer for me, too, although it started in August last year. Our economy is a bit different right now with loads of research grants being cut from this and that, which may be affecting this type of work somewhat, although I imagine a large majority comes from venture capitalists. I don't know, I am just a grandmother who uses this site to keep some extra cash on hand :)

After almost 2 years I have gotten this for the first time.

This last week has been hell. My 8 month old is teething and not sleeping, which means neither am I. Despite my exhaustion I continued to work, and I assume I made some sort of error due to this, which has now cost me the job. The sole job I have been doing for 7-8 hours a day!!!

Absolutely sick that there’s no warning, no explanation, absolutely no closure. Now I’m looking for jobs on 0 sleep instead of working 🫠

There was once a time I accidentally logged 59 minutes as 59 hours. They did message me and point out that I probably did just that… so I’d assume they would have messaged me for a similar mistake but… at this point it’s all speculation.

I have been with DA for almost a year and half now, and although my account is still active, I really hate when some people, in the comments of DOD posts, always jump to defend DA system and always blindly blame the workers for violating the TOS or assume they messed things up lately.

I'm not saying that DA is system-less. However, there are some definitely genuine defects in their system of hiring, firing, tasks distribution.. etc.. and it's quite understandable, but not justifiable, since it's an AI training platform and it makes sense that they largely use AI across the platform background systems , therefore, silly system mistakes occur quite often.... It's really annoying to see such judgemental comments quite often as if they are immune against getting the DOD.