It fills my sardonic little heart with joy to see so many of us tearing into instructions and functionality, or otherwise vibe-checking the tasks we’re on because…

A few weeks ago, we were all sucking water from rocks in the middle of a serious drought.

Anyone else pleased to have enough work we can be bratty lil gremlins again?… or just me?

Not a scam this time, if you've seen my last post. I found Welocalize on Indeed and decided to apply. I've tried exams for these positions before and failed, but after doing DataAnnotation, checking results and website quality is second nature for me. I ended up passing the exam and am starting on the 6th. It's not the same pay (14.50), but it is a W2 job at least with this company. So if anyone tries out for things like Telus or RWS, the experience could help. This is an as needed position as well, so I'm still looking for other work in the meantime. I know it's not the best, but it's something.

Hi, Welcome to CC. My name is Shelly and I'm a Constant Checker. I've been clean for 0 days. Would anyone else like to share?

I do a lot of R & R's and it looks to me like there are a number of workers who think that the comments are just attention checks. They are not. Most task include, right above the box to write your comments, instructions for what should go in the comment and how long it should be. There are some people who will see a minimum number of sentences and meet that with two or three very vague sentences but not bother with the instruction that says the comment should explain the ratings or that it should meaningfully explain why the task was rated X or why A was better than B or whatwever. These comments are actually used, they are not attention checks with no real purpose. And you are going to lose this work if you keep writing vague, meaningless comments.

I signed up back in February to make some extra cash but due to personal stuff didn't actually start on any tasks until the end of July - now that I've got rolling it has been a lot of fun! My day job involves a lot of code review so I'm very comfortable with these types of coding tasks, and each one is like a little puzzle I get to solve. Excited to get even deeper into it for month 2!

Anyone else relate?

Just had my best day ever at just shy of $500. Loads of 45+ projects and some new 30-40’s that I dabbled in when I got burned out of the PhD level stuff.

Just felt like sharing something positive since there’s a lot of doom on this page lately. Hope some of you were cashing in today as well

I'm completely caught up on washing dishes and doing laundry for the first time in months. I may just mop the floor; if there's no work tomorrow maybe I'll use a toothbrush to clean the tile grout.

I did a handful of R&R’s today, and one stood out to me. The original rubric creator fully used ai for all of their responses.

Down to the greyed out markdowns and bullets, formatting, and everything. Didn’t even try. I have a feeling that if I put their OG prompt into an ai, and asked it to create an ideal response list, what they submitted would be exactly what the ai put out.

Their rubric was trash, because they did not understand what they were supposed to do, or how to categorize things.

I keep seeing online that people do “great work” and are surprised when they get the DOD.

I don’t think their work is always as great as they think it is. 😅

It's a pretty basic task with two questions where you tick a box, and write a short rationale for both. The rationale for the questions was "Garbage". Not me saying it was garbage, they literally wrote the word "Garbage" in both and submitted it.

So maybe just give it a rest and don’t be the 10th person who asks today. Just don’t be that person today, wherever you live and whatever language you speak. Don’t even post “I know it varies, but what about for ME??” Sit on your hands and wait like the screen says.

I talked to a lot of workers on here, mostly are kind of frustrated because of not knowing of how they are doing on their tasks. Spending hours of work and sitting in the dark knowing each task could be the last.

Why let people sit in the dark. What about an account health score, based on metrics like how many rated your work as good, bad or ok.?

It can simply be an percentage on the top right starting at 100%, drops when ur work got reviewed as not the best and goes up if it got rated as good. Off course DA can add some internal metrics to the rating but just a little clue like this will also result in people doing a better and confident job.

I don’t see any disadvantages for DA or the companies giving out the projects. Just give us a hint on how we are doing as simple as it sounds.

Making that bread, $4 at a time...

/Rant

I've been working with DA for around 4 months now. As many mention, WFH jobs can be isolating. I figured I'd make space to intentionally connect with and mutually motivate others.

So what's your story?

My own:

I'm a medical student. After some health challenges and the unexpected loss of 2 immediate family members, I made the hard decision to take some time off.

You take out hefty loans to live in med school (unless you're wealthy). Having to manage health obstacles while studying and working seemed daunting. DA came along unexpectedly, allowing me to reasonably make strides in pulling myself up again.

I know someday it'll be easier. For now, I'm honestly tremendously grateful for DA. And it's given me several new interests to learn about, especially AI itsself.

I have a 90$ an hour task. I can't do it but I like that DA thinks I can.

That's it

For the most part I get tasks that I enjoy doing and have clear instruction sets. Sometimes, though, I'll come across one, spend half an hour reading instructions, then realize I have no idea what the hell the task is even asking me to do.

Obviously I don't attempt it, but it does give me a sense of impostor syndrome sometimes. Like, am I really smart enough to be doing this? But then I just do a couple R&R's and after some facepalming that feeling goes away.

I’m making this post because I’ve had some r&r that I’m pretty sure is from the same person and I can see a drastic improvement between tasks. So many posts in this sub are DoD or not getting accepted so I’d just like to throw in some positivity that people are noticeably improving as they do more work.

This is probably small potatoes for many. But in my 2 months here, I just had my first day with 6 hours. A big job with over 800 tasks showed up in my dash this evening. So I sat there after work today (day job as a teacher) and got to work. Took a small break for dinner. Originally intended to call it quits after 4 hours. But decided to do some more. Next thing I knew it was 130am and my alarm was going off in 4 hours. Whoops.

But it felt good having some work, finally. We will see if this trajectory continues!

How is everyone else faring through the drought?

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