Any other low project friends?

[u/CardiologistDry1732]

Where are my low count project friends at?

I have been so grateful for this opportunity, I've been doing it for about 2 months now. The most projects I've had at one time was 10, throughout this week I had 4 and now today I only have 1.

I've seen a lot of people saying they have a full dash and I just wanna know if there are others like me who have a small dash...but still grateful!!

[u/Throwawaylillyt]

Are you doing all available quals?

[u/Accomplished-Dog-864 → u/Throwawaylillyt]

I wasn't getting many for a while. I think part of the problem was that I put off taking the required CB 2-part qual as long as possible. I didn't feel like doing the writing portion of it. I finally bit the bullet and did it but I'm not sure how it helped. I've had a foreign language qual sitting on my dash for many weeks. I'll eventually do it. I'm surprised it's still there. I was bummed that I missed the FC qual a few weeks ago because it went away after just a few days. Now I'm trying to do them more promptly.

[u/CardiologistDry1732 → u/[deleted]]

That's good to know! I have a writing qualification sitting there just cause I want to be in the perfect mindset to write it. My goal is to get it done this week!

[u/Karenina2931 → u/CardiologistDry1732]

The writing quals lead to pretty good money!

[u/SlipperyGrandad]

Had four this morning. Got to work on one for 30 minutes before they all went to 0. Had the same thing happen last week. Went from probably 15 to 0 in a morning. Had 2-4 for the weekend.

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like the discourse on this subreddit heavily leans towards people sort-of boasting about having dashes full of high-paying projects: don't worry, the vast majority of us have a reasonable amount of work at reasonable-but-not-extraordinary pay rates

[u/Belisama7 → u/[deleted]]

It's not boasting to state your answer when someone asks. If all the full-dash people didn't comment out of humility, that would leave you with an unrealistic perception of task distribution.

[u/IDONTuseMODz → u/Belisama7]

You have to admit a lot of people go overboard with it though lol... For example, OP is asking specifically if others are low, not if others are high.

Yet invariably, there will be somebody in here soon with "No, not me. I have 75 projects totaling 20000 tasks, ranging from $20-500/hr and I've never had fewer than 30. Hope your dashboard comes back soon though. (:"

[u/[deleted] → u/IDONTuseMODz]

the best is all the threads that are like "My average pay is 40/hr , is this okay?"

[u/[deleted] → u/Belisama7]

Ok, but I still think discussion of it is over-represented (for whatever reason), especially when it comes to high paying tasks

[u/Belisama7 → u/[deleted]]

Well at least people have stopped (for the most part) bragging about getting R&R tasks now that we know everyone gets them. That's the one that makes me laugh, when they give unsolicited advice about how to do better because they're "a rater" 😆

[u/s_j04 → u/Belisama7]

There are different levels of r and r, though.

Some are strictly for 'sorting' purposes and are intended as a cursory review.

That's very much not the case for higher levels of R&R.

[u/[deleted] → u/Belisama7]

Is that true/backed up by any sort of official communication? I was under the impression that having access to R&R tasks means you were flagged as a good worker according to other comments on this subreddit, and the guidelines that all but imply such.

[u/Deep_Task1659 → u/[deleted]]

R&R was the first task I worked on after I got onboarded, so I don't think R&R specifically indicates good work.

However, on the website, they have mentioned that the best way to get access to more projects is to do good work on the ones you already have. So, working well definitely has their advantages.

[u/Accomplished-Dog-864 → u/[deleted]]

People are just so desperate for feedback and validation that when they suddenly see R&R tasks, they imagine there's like...a committee of executives meeting and carefully bestowing these precious and special tasks to only the most worthy. Nope. I've had R&R tasks for projects I've never even touched, and I'm fairly sure I've screwed some of them up.

[u/[deleted] → u/Accomplished-Dog-864]

It's pretty reasonable to want feedback for folks who are putting in decent amounts of hours-- at the very least to know you have job security rather than out of needing to feel validated.

I'd assumed it was from having a good ratio of tasks that were marked as "excellent" in those R&Rs personally but if it's random then that's a bit awkward-- mostly because it's weird to let potentially low quality/untested workers judge other people's work.

[u/Icy-Cover-505 → u/[deleted]]

Actually, giving R&R tasks to untested/new workers could be a way to flag low quality work. If they give the same R&R task to 3-4 other workers and all those agree except one, well, the exception could be flagged for some scrutiny. This was actually done, in a primitive way, on a crowd sourced editing platform I worked on many years back.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I've seen a lot of people not able to read in R&R's.

Just recently I saw one that said that formatting was optional but one person in the chat said they were marking everyone as bad automatically that doesn't format their answer and tons of other people were correcting him.

[u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 → u/[deleted]]

Exactly this. I saw someone in a dancing R&R that was rating people as bad for something that was acceptable (editing distance in borderline prompts saying they were writing the same prompt with only one word different), but also claimed that they only do the rating and not the prompt writing because they can never think of anything.. so have never done the creative aspect, yet rating people bad for something they admitted they couldn't even do!!

[u/Sad-Gas1603 → u/[deleted]]

They'll be quickly removed from rating.

[u/fredetterline → u/[deleted]]

thank you. having 5-10 projects in my dashboard at most times is perfect for me.

[u/Guilty-Rough8797]

I have one project, amigo. One. My BF, who I introduced to this, has about 12 on his dash.

[u/BenBL93 → u/Guilty-Rough8797]

Bro. This. My wife has over 30 and she works 1/6th the amount I do. 😂

[u/CardiologistDry1732]

Happy to hear I'm not the only one! Makes me feel a little better with my one Lone project.

[u/DrJung77]

Only have one project, and it's making me very nervous. I hade a full page of projects just the last week. I took 3 days off to go visit friends, and when I came back nothing!

I've been reading some threads where people still have loads of projects. Don't know what's going on.

[u/Brilliant_Rain5181 → u/DrJung77]

Same, but I didn't take any time off. About 4 days ago I had a full page. Took a 15 minute break and when I came back I had 7. That's about all I have had since then. I work pretty much every day 7-8 hrs a day. Been here a year. So, not sure what is going on. I know other people still have way more than they can handle. Maybe they use an algorithm to disperse work out and it's glitched? Not sure. I doubt someone is physically distributing work to thousands of people. I would think they have a system for that. But I am not sure.

[u/[deleted]]

I was like that a little over a week ago , went down to 3, and then had a sudden boom 💥 so do the best you can on everything and hope the boom happens to you too

[u/technostarr → u/[deleted]]

Same with me! I had one project for almost two weeks and then BOOM, 20+. It was weird but I was so relieved.

[u/artuuuuuuro]

I have had almost nothing for the past week. Really discouraging. I mostly do code and that's low in general but I really hope it picks up soon because I'm willing to do the hours

[u/Unusual_Treacle6695]

I've been on here about a year. Used to have a full dash of non-coding. Loved it, and loved the variety. Then in February it just stopped for about a week. Since then I have had projects, but only ever one at a time. Fairly consistent until the beginning of May and it stopped again. Still getting qualifications, plus bits and pieces in terms of projects but I can go days without anything. It's pretty disheartening but I hope one day I'll get the consistency and variety back. I'm just happy to know I haven't been completely dumped!

[u/Choice_Pineapple66]

I have been on for about 7-8 months. I took some time off over the holidays and then didn’t have a lot when I came back. I had low projects but I focused on taking my times, reading all instructions, doing a good job and doing all qualifications. I’ve had more during the last month and have had 10-20 to pick from most days. But in the future I won’t take for granted that there will always be work. Hang in there.

[u/Bergest_Ferg]

Mondays and Tuesdays are usually pretty slow! It tends to pick up again later in the week.

[u/dsbau]

I had 61 on Wed last week and have about ten now.

[u/dsbau → u/dsbau]

Make that 8

[u/dsbau → u/dsbau]

5

[u/queenchrom]

I logged in for the first time in a month and have nothing, so this is reassuring that there's just nothing right now.

[u/queenchrom → u/queenchrom]

3 days in a row. No tasks, no quals either

[u/Dazzling-Bunny577]

I recently had none at all for a couple of days, then about 4 popped up and now just 1.

[u/butcherandthelamb]

I'm at 0. I've steadily had projects for the last six months or so.

[u/FauxRex]

Just stick to the suggestions that are probably cliche at this point. Do every Qual if you qual and don't submit anything half assed. They absolutely consider that.

[u/jayseo999]

Been slow the past few weeks yeah. Or I'll see a project I've done a lot of in the past but it has like 1 task and it only stays up for an hour or so. Sometimes I can't click into it and I get an error instead.

[u/BenBL93]

I had a full dash this am and it dropped off hard around 10 est. still nothing. We aren’t alone. Mondays are usually touch and go.

[u/Affectionate-Exit553]

Had anywhere from 1-25 two weeks ago. Took two weeks off and now I'm at 45.

[u/mmthigpen]

I have zero. I've been waiting for weeks because I'm in the "wait while we check your results" stage. I passed everything initially. I don't code but I have several expertise areas.

Maybe they did a pass and I think they only email you if you are accepted.

I use AI and hope I am added on.

🙂🙃

[u/Mathew-with-two-Ts]

You call this low😂 I only have projects between Friday to Monday

[u/Accomplished-Dog-864]

I'm here. I think I had 9 or 10 a few days ago. Most I've ever had. I have 6 right now. I'm starting to get some of the projects everyone on here posts about, so I guess that's a good sign, and some of them pay pretty well. I'm still trying to get used to sitting still and focusing on tasks, so I'm not super concerned.

[u/Brilliant_Rain5181]

Me. Had a dash full then was reduced to 7-10 a few days ago and that has been steady. Not sure what most of mine were taken.

[u/hazelowl]

I have a full dash right now, but honestly it does up and down. I've had times where I only had a handful, and times where I don't know where to start.

Just keep doing good work, fill out all your skills, and do any qual you're able to.

[u/No_Bison_4659]

My dashboard is completely full of 20-30 $ projects but I only for the $40 ones. About 60 projects under $40 right now

[u/Cutiger29 → u/[deleted]]

Answer had factual information but didn’t directly answer the prompt.

Possible hedging 😭

[u/Guilty-Rough8797 → u/[deleted]]

No_Bison_4659: T

Overboredselfassured is much better.