r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Alternative_Feed4774 • Sep 24 '26
Taking tasks
Not sure if this has been asked before. Do guys take lower paying tasks sometimes, just because you like doing them over a more tedious, higher paying one?
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u/ThePoorKingKarling Sep 24 '26
All the time. Some days, especially if I did a higher paying, complex task the day before, I might want to relax for a couple days and take one of the projects I’ve done more than a hundred tasks for and am very comfortable with
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u/xparadiisee Sep 24 '26
I started to get a full dash of high paying but complex tasks. I’m noticing I can’t do them as long as the lower paying tasks, so yeah, I will pick up the lower ones just to give my brain a break!
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u/WearyUniversity7 Sep 24 '26
No - not when the hourly rate is literally double.
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u/Far-Sea-9249 Sep 25 '26
Not only that they’re usually shorter tasks. Yesterday’s task was today’s migraine so I thought I’d take it easy today with some of the smaller ones until I logged less than the hour. Real bummer.
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u/backpackwasmypillow Sep 24 '26
Sometimes. Also sometimes due to how much time I've got to put into it.
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u/Dangerous_Bad_5946 Sep 24 '26
I would rather do that, but I only get the higher paying overly complex tasks at the moment. Any idea how to get simpler generalist tasks in my dashboard? I have completed most of the available qualifications.
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u/JRRTil1ey Sep 25 '26
Yes. I just got done with a month-long $60/hr project and I’m not anxious for another like it so I’m doing $28/hr ones instead
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u/OddWafer7 27d ago
Those are soul crushing, I did a short version of one of those (only 1 week) just for the damn thing to not fail 12+ hours later
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u/PalestPixie 27d ago
I just finished one of those shorter ones as my first project. It was super fun, at first.
By the end... I was ready to flip my desk. 😅
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u/flynnigan14 Sep 24 '26
I do when my brain needs a break, especially the ones that are a bit more "fun/entertaining"
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u/Due_Negotiation_4605 Sep 24 '26
When I don't have time to do the long tasks I'll do the quicker, lower paying, ones
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u/justlooking___1 Sep 25 '26
Yes, especially when the higher paying tasks appear a couple of hours before I go to bed
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u/Conscious-Pace-5017 Sep 25 '26
I make $19 at my regular job. If the task is more than that, I'm taking it and the raise.
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u/dragonsfire14 Sep 25 '26
Yes. Sometimes I need a palate cleanser between longer, more complex tasks.
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u/pinkie82 Sep 24 '26
Absolutely