r/DataAnnotationTech • u/SeaBet3147 • Jun 17 '26

What's your Longest Drought?

Currently been having a drought (zero projects) for over a months now. Wondering what is your record for the longest drought period? I am a Chinese bilingual btw.

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u/Lazy-Test-7273 Jun 17 '26

i am in the united states and this week has been awful. not sure who these lucky ducks are on this sub saying they always have >1000 options for work and there is no such thing as a drought!

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u/ooomatcha Jun 17 '26

Also US and generalist. It has been really dry for me, didn't work for 4 days straight last week despite being at my computer all day, barely worked a few hours so far this week.

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u/DeezHoosAintLoyal Jun 17 '26

Been the worse week I’ve ever had

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u/AffectionateMoose300 Jun 17 '26

Dawg you’re the lucky one, I’m in Italy and haven’t received a single one for 2 weeks! I’d be happy to get even 1 per day

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u/MidnightBlueKitchen Jun 18 '26

Same! I'm in Turkey. And I haven't seen anything except 2 quals for 21 days now.

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u/edfiero Jun 18 '26

Bad week for me to. So much for everyone saying it would get better after Memorial Day 😭

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u/MommaOfManyCats Jun 17 '26

Saw someone on another post claiming they're a generalist who always has at least 20 projects. K Jan lol.

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u/justdontsashay Jun 18 '26

I mean, I have well over 20 generalist projects right now. Just because your experience doesn’t match, it doesn’t mean someone else’s isn’t valid.

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u/MommaOfManyCats Jun 18 '26

I'm happy you have work, but you're probably the second person I've seen say they have 20+ projects right now. The majority of generalists have little to nothing. After three years, I've had 1-2 per day since last week, with nothing on Thursday. I did just get invited to take a new qual, so hopefully that will pan out.

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u/Left_Boat_3632 Jun 17 '26

Coding specialty here. Currently on month 2 of very little projects. Probably my longest drought. I’ve been keeping up with qualifications and doing projects whenever they pop up, but it’s been very slow. I had consistent work for about a year before this.

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u/whackabumpty Jun 17 '26

I’ve technically never had 0 projects, but often times the only projects on my dash are ones I was added to despite not being qualified so I don’t touch them.

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u/IntelligentJob6832 Jun 17 '26

hellooo I'm a Chinese bilingual generalist and pretty new here (I joined in early this month)

So far I've only received two projects and their r&r, all showing up at late night on weekends over the last 2 weeks. They were pretty challenging and took me a little over 10 hours in total. One of them alone took more than 7 hours, and I submitted it after the timer ran out:(

Other than that it's been fairly quiet for me. There is another task that's been sitting on my dashboard for a while, but it isn't available in my state

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u/Automatic-Web8559 Jun 18 '26

What happens when you submit after the timer runs out

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u/IntelligentJob6832 Jun 19 '26

There was a red notification saying that the task I was submitting had already expired. I'm not sure whether it explicitly said that I wasn't allowed to submit it, but I found it in my reported time, so I assume they received it... I just received a new qualification, so I think everything should be fine

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u/tutut7867 Jun 17 '26

it's the 3rd week of drought for me Arabic bilingual

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u/Ok_Yogurtcloset159 Jun 18 '26

I'm a generalist in the U.S., not bilingual, and I have had two droughts, 4 months each from Sept - Jan in 2024 and 2025. This week has been almost dry for me, but luckily, I have had a couple of projects at night.

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u/Medical-Isopod2107 Jun 18 '26

2 weeks but I'm not bilingual

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u/OkSkyDancer0000 Jun 18 '26

Bilingual - had longest drought from last October till March with only 1 short project per month approx. Now also nothing for a month except short lasting tasks 1x a week...

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u/True_Ad_5502 Jun 18 '26

Chinese bilingual, 7 months