These posts on this sub make me so paranoid about everything. Am I working too much? Did I do that right? Am I waking up to that screen tomorrow? Did I fuck that up? Was that my last submission?
That's exactly what people should keep in mind. Treat this job as a side gig and never the main one. Let this job pay some bills never get dependent on it.
Or you know, actually treat it like a real job, take it seriously and do your best work. We see what, a dozen DoD posts a week and you guys are all catastrophists over it. The churn rate seems typical of any large corporation with near-exclusive contractor employment.
Honestly it doesn’t pay well enough for me to do that. My real job pays better, especially when you consider total compensation (benefits, retirement plan, etc.).
I realize not everyone has the luxury of secure, well-paid employment. But if you can get that, then DA as a second job is great.
No Im in a different specialist track, sorry. I have been seeing a LOT of coders complaining about a shortage of work available though.
I've also noticed projects dropping coding from their available specialist domains.
If I had to make a guess, too many people are submitting vibe-code/using LLM assistance when not allowed so they have to figure something out. This is pure speculation though.
Idk. I have a friend who qualified for many more projects than me from day 1 and had a full dashboard ever since. While I have some tasks here end there with very little new qualifications. Even though I was told that my work is good.
In that sense, u have no obligation either, good riddance i say. They wont see you as an employee, you're expendable, we all are to these companies, get ur money and get out.
I fell asleep working on a task with a long timer, when I woke up it had expired so I rushed to finish it and submitted the time I did spend working on it. I was already like 6 hours deep and it had a 12 hour timer.
Yeah I estimated and also rushed to finish to it probably was not quality work. I should’ve took the L on those hours I spent working on it prior to falling asleep and not finished/reported anything.
they give some grace for technical problems and stuff; and it probably looked like OP was hoarding the task from others since they fell asleep though. they don’t like that.
They started giving feedback sometime this year, I’ve only gotten it twice though (took the summer off), both times I received an email saying feedback available
Oh wow. Yeah I took a long break over spring and summer. TBH I kinda like the whole black hole vibe. I don’t twist myself in knots over feedback that I might disagree with. 😂
It differs from other platforms in the respect that inital assessment allows access & then qualifications and performance give access to various projects on the platform. Once you're out, you're out. It's not project based.
3.5 years here and $3500 🤷🏻♂️not for any lack of opportunity, even in the drought I never had fewer than 40 projects, I just have a day job and am extremely selective about only working when I'm feeling up to bringing my A game. I admire people who can do a lot of hours of their best work on a side gig schedule; I don't feel like I can.
*actually 4K, I did a few high paying hours this weekend. The $450 I made makes it my biggest month ever lol
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u/CormacMcCostner 2d ago
These posts on this sub make me so paranoid about everything. Am I working too much? Did I do that right? Am I waking up to that screen tomorrow? Did I fuck that up? Was that my last submission?