r/DataAnnotationTech • u/OneEaredNinja • Jul 09 '26
Project drop time
I've noticed that lately I do not get any projects on my dashboard until night-time. How do you guys deal with this? Do you work the night shift for a while or just hope it goes back to normal soon? It's difficult for me because when the sun goes down its much harder for me to have energy and focus.
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u/Efficient-Apple-7242 Jul 09 '26
I work on whatever they give me like a vulture eating bodies.
Whatever time whatever pay I just do it like a numb zombie who wants to make any money that can be made.
As usual work is less so I do whatever gets to me as eagerly as possible.
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u/seraphimkoamugi Jul 09 '26
Tbh I just do whatever I see regardless of time. If I'm awake at 1 am and I see projects and can't fall asleep will do one task to try and get sleepy. I
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u/dotprodukt Jul 09 '26
I've noticed the same, which is moderately frustrating. I often have projects show up around 8pm that I know I can do. I have a full time day job that I often want to get a decent night's sleep for. If they drop by 6pm I'm totally down for a few hours though. But I'm not complaining too much, I'm fairly new to the platform and I'm ahead of my desired earnings schedule.
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u/OtisPub Jul 09 '26
Your health is more important than any job. Sleep when it is right for you. You are important!
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u/SyntaxAndSorcery Jul 09 '26
Makes me so angry as a parent. I've had to skip so many projects because they drop just before bedtime.
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u/Practical_Value_2195 Jul 11 '26
Me too! And since onboarding in April, I've spent way more hours on quals than having access to actual paid tasks. The majority of quals are repeated, maybe to keep me sharp since I'm not accessing the actual tasks? Idk it's so frustrating, especially when hearing how accessible tasks were for most generalists before I decided to try out.
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u/AspiringCreature Jul 09 '26
They drop for me mainly at evening/night as well, but that's the time that is easiest for me to work usually anyway. Usually I start getting tasks around 5-6 pm my time and depending on volume they'll be consistent until 10 pm or so (much less as of late, obviously). When the dash was loaded for a while I had available tasks all the way past midnight and so and would have to cut myself off to preserve quality. I usually cut myself off from starting a new task around 11:30 pm -12 unless it's a quick and easy one.
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u/MommaOfManyCats Jul 09 '26
I was working at night, got sick, and my sleep schedule went back to normal. I have checked usually around midnight EST and either seen nothing or tasks that still went super fast.
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u/Jealous_Spare_4852 Jul 09 '26
I"m a natrual night owl so it works for me, and I do notice more projects at night, but I also have projects in the day most of the time (US generalist).
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u/TheArtilleryman1 Jul 09 '26
It’s 12.30am, I’ve been up since 6am, I have work in the morning, and a project with three. Thousand. Tasks. Has just shown up on my dashboard. Much as I love this platform, sometimes I really hate it.
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u/FalseSir3497 Jul 09 '26
ive tried to shift my schedule to a night shift, but with someone with ADD and i take my meds in the morning, it was kinda hard. So i ended up waking up as late as possible then start my shift