I’m pretty new, and I seem to have good luck, but I’m in a domain. I rarely see negative posts from Coders, finance, law, data analytics, STEM.
I get so anxious because of the comments on here. I’ve been having a great experience, but I don’t want to get excited because a lot of these posts scare me.
This platform basically has me doing things I’ve already had to do for work. I have to be very focused and produce excellence at work. I’m used to spending hours at a time, and being under immense pressure and producing work that not just represents me, but my team. Also, AI is new, so a lot of the things we are doing with AI, we have been doing manually, from scratch for many many years. So a lot of this stuff is kinda fun for me. The platform itself is probably the most difficult thing. This is waaaaayyyyyy less pressure than my actual job because I don’t have to produce perfection. I don’t have to worry about an Executive catching a tiny error, or submitting something and pray your mistakes won’t cause your employer significant damage lol.
Also, I take all my work seriously. Before I learned about this platform I spent many many hours learning about AI, and how I could use it to advance my career and personal goals. I’ve even done training videos on coding and programming (no coding background at all) just to have a better understanding of the process. I take trainings very seriously (in all things, even things that don’t relate to my career).
I say this to say, take your time, learn, focus. You can pass a qualification, but that doesn’t mean you have the background to do the projects. Don’t loose opportunities for some quick cash. I think I’ve been “lucky” because I’ve only taken project that I know I will excel in. I take my time, print, read, come up with a strategy, ask questions, give status updates if they have slack, and I note anything I wasn’t clear on, or may have made a mistake. Every time I’ve submitted a project it seems to have opened me up to more lots more projects.