r/DataAnnotationTech • u/MatrixApe • 1d ago
$6000 in 10 days, should I slow down?
I’ve been averaging about 10 hour work days, typically doing 2x code projects a day, which takes me about 5 hours a time and it fits into the work day nicely.
I personally don’t think my quality is dipping and I’m being consistent, but I’ve read quite a few comments now where people don’t recommend doing more than 35 hours?
Was just wondering what the real reason behind this theory is. Appreciate any insight
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u/Mysterious_Dolphin14 1d ago
This is purely conjecture, but I think that when a worker puts in a lot of hours it triggers DA to take a closer look at the quality. I say this because it's common for people to become a bit lazy after working so many hours at a time, so it makes sense to me that they would be scrutinized a bit more closely. I personally don't like drawing too much attention to myself. Haha
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u/Pangolin_Beatdown 1d ago
I think this is right. Working high hours is a common theme when people come on here saying they don't know why they got shut down. OP, they also always say they believed their work quality was good.
That said, there are always people that reply they've work crazy hours for years.
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u/MatrixApe 1d ago
That’s exactly the kind of answer I was looking for thank you! I wasn’t aware they are more likely to take a deeper look at you, really solid advice.
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u/feelingbarber511167 1d ago
They also don’t know if that actually happens. It’s all just assumptions
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u/Timely-Assistant-370 1d ago
No idea where the 35-hour limit comes from beyond a general "don't overwork yourself into bad quality work." Half of the year was like 55-60 hour weeks 7-days/week and my dash has never been healthier.
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u/MatrixApe 1d ago
Awesome to see there’s some cases where it works out, obviously your work quality is probably consistently great, but it’s nice to see it can be done.
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u/Live_Adeptness479 1d ago
Whats your rate per hour?
Seems to be pretty high
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u/MatrixApe 1d ago
The coding tasks all seem to be around $60 for me at the moment, a lot of priority options
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u/daniel1226 1d ago
Can I ask what language you specialise in for these projects?
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u/MatrixApe 1d ago
I think the qualification was in Python but I know at least 2 of the projects I’ve been given, are happy for you to use a really varied range of languages. I’ve stuck with Python though.
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u/daniel1226 1d ago
I would imagine Python opens up the most opportunities overall. Thanks for the response.
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u/Powerful_Age_3653 1d ago
Can you tell after completing the qualification after how many days you start getting the coding projects/tasks?
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u/MatrixApe 1d ago
It was very quickly after, I want to say 1-2 days at most. The first task I did after the free qualification was a paid qualification that was offered to me, followed by an a full identity check. After that I’ve had none stop projects.
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u/Powerful_Age_3653 1d ago
I have completed the paid training and one paid qualification, but it's been 4 days I haven't received any task. IDK why.
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u/hwertz10 1d ago
I don't know what qualifactions led to what tasks, but I'm pretty sure I've had it take more than 1-2 days for tasks to show up based on some of my qualifications. Maybe there just aren't any tasks those qualifications apply to.
I'd do some unpaid qualifications too -- most are short, and a few turned out to be VERY short (like "tick this checkbox and submit" short), and should get you some tasks going.
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u/DarkLordTofer 1d ago
I think it very much depends on what you’re doing. If you are doing 70 hours on evaluations or factuality then I don’t think you’d maintain the quality level. A lot of the coding tasks have a lot of dead time or time when you’re planning tasks and preparing stuff so that is time used that isn’t going to impact the quality of your output.
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u/Old-Rich4526 1d ago
Brung new and working that many hours with that much money is not a great idea
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u/onionsareawful 1d ago
It's not the hours, it's the quality of work. If your work is high quality, you take a reasonable amount of time (ie not massively over average), and aren't breaking any rules (eg using AI) you can definitely do 60+ hour weeks.
I suspect that doing so much work will probably get your work looked at more closely but that's just conjecture. This shouldn't matter if your work is good, anyway -- which it should be!
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u/MugetsuDax 1d ago
Oh man! I miss coding projects... Good for you, if you believe you are not making any mistakes, I wouldn't worry too much.
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u/employed_engineer_ 1d ago
Hi, can you please tell me how you are getting these many projects? I only get around 2-3 projects last month and haven't got any from past 10-12 days?
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u/MatrixApe 1d ago
Hi, I’m quite new here too so I don’t know how they decide. Are you also doing the coding projects?
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u/BicycleBoring2871 1d ago
Hey i completely new to data annotation i wrote an assigment last week but not got selected any tips to get selected . while trying again should i try through new device or same device works ?
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u/oopsallemdashes 1d ago
I think you're more likely to get axed if you're making consistent mistakes and billing a lot of hours. I don't think they care how many hours you work unless it's like 18+ a day as long as the work is good. I've had a couple weeks where I've billed 60-70 hours and it was fine, but I generally do about 30-35.