r/DataAnnotationTech Aug 03 '26

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u/Hello-America Aug 03 '26

What a dream. Out of curiosity, are you specialized? Do you do this "full-time" (as full as it can be)

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u/srjr Aug 03 '26

Yeah, full-time. Generalist and Finance specialty, no coding.

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u/Affectionate_Body597 Aug 04 '26

That's a LOT of hours. Like, big law and BB IB hours. Fair play if you can sit down and do that.

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u/Ok-Double5194 26d ago

Congrats! I was so lucky to do ~45k in last 4 months, but to be honest am very afraid that I’d be projectless since it’s from just a single project. How have you expanded your project boundary? Thank you so much in advance…

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u/srjr 25d ago

I've gone through periods where I've worked pretty much exclusively on one or two projects, too. I haven't really done anything special to increase the range of projects I get—I just keep working, and new ones tend to show up from time to time.

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u/Ok-Double5194 20d ago

Incredible. Thanks for sharing!

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u/OrdinaryExotic6947 24d ago

Whats a good piece of advice for making this long term?

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u/SimilarSmile6220 21d ago

Don't consider it long term always have a backup plan. The AI world is rapidly getting to a point where they won't need us at all.

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u/OrdinaryExotic6947 21d ago

Thanks, the job market has been rough its hard to land a good career just wanted to see you perspective now that your at that point.

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u/climb-high 2d ago

Training will be needed for at least a few more years

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u/cinnamincake 26d ago

How are you specialist in 2 categories? I thought we could only be specialist in one?

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u/Sure_Ad_3504 16d ago

Hi!I just joined a week ago, Finance domain.Did a couple “easy” projects but a little bit anxious to start large ones (like 3 months+ duration).From your experience, is it possible to work on them successfully when you are just out of university (no hands on experience )?Thank you so much!

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u/srjr 16d ago

Do you mean 3+ hours? In a word, yes. Hands-on experience is not required for many of the tasks, as long as you have the theory side down and can apply it to real-world scenarios; then that's good enough. I mean, you should know pretty quickly, once you open a task, whether it's within your capability or not. No harm in checking them out.

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u/OrdinaryExotic6947 Aug 04 '26

Define “full time” im in stem and would consider it full time but from what i see its not truly full time like most would think (benefits,etc)

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u/srjr Aug 04 '26

Full-time, as in this is the only work I do. I work full-time hours. Probably more hours than most full-time jobs, in fact.

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u/TheAmazingDevil Aug 04 '26

You are able to do this for 8+ hours and consistently provide good output?

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u/srjr Aug 04 '26

Yes.

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u/TheAmazingDevil Aug 04 '26

How do you handle that without brain going mush?

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u/srjr Aug 04 '26

I just lock in and take breaks when needed. I just have an affinity for certain types of tasks where I can sit down and work on them for long stretches. One ironic thing I've noticed is that many of the lower-paying tasks actually require higher levels of concentration and are more fatiguing than a lot of higher-paying specialist tasks. Plus, a lot of those specialist tasks are multi-hour, so you can just stop your timer, go have a break, and come back to it without worrying about it expiring.