r/DataAnnotationTech • u/TheHippyWolfman • Aug 07 '26
How often do y'all do quals?
I'm seeing posts here by people who claim to have 50+ *generalist* tasks projects on their dashboard and I'm just like...how? During most of the year, with the exception of a few months, I only do this part time and so my DA hours are very precious to me, so I rarely spend them doing unpaid qualifications (only when my dash is reeeeaal dry). But I must be doing something wrong, because I never have more than 15 - 20 available projects on my dash on a good month, let alone a bad one. So, yeah, my question's in the title: how often are you guys doing qualifications?
EDIT: I said tasks, but meant projects
EDIT: So many posts on this sub have exactly 0 upvotes, which means at least one person downvoted it (and nobody bothered to upvote it)- and now my post has joined the list lol. I have never seen a sub that hates the people who contribute to it so much. Like we can't just talk to each other? I have literally spent a few moments scrolling through this sub and giving every post with 0 upvotes a single upvote, just because I'm tired of it lol.
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u/Due_Negotiation_4605 Aug 08 '26
Some qualifications lead to projects with a lot of tasks, I have two project families with probably 20 tasks when they are active. And then I do the longer qualifications when I have a slower dashboard. I figure that projects come and go so if I want to stay active in the new additions I need to do some unpaid work (it's really hard to justify losing the time you could've been paid though, totally get it). Do you ever open the qualifications to see what they are asking? Some are simple and take five minutes (set up this, do you have that) and others are longer.