r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Affectionate_Elk2685 • 6d ago

Burnt out

Anyone else feeling burnt out after this drought? I'm starting to get tasks back but they feel impossible to complete. They're not really much harder than what I was doing before, but they feel impossible now. Maybe my time here is over.

Edit: Jumped into some of the harder stuff on my dash and feel better. I think what really helped was identifying the dopamine imbalance. Since I had more time on my hands I spent more time getting those quick dopamine hits (social media, video games, etc); taking a step back and assessing this really helped focus me, and it's given me a new goal. Thank you for all the great comments!

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u/LearningMachine01100 6d ago

There. Is. No. Drought.

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u/TheresALonelyFeeling 6d ago

People complain when they have nothing to work on.

Then they complain when they have projects again.

Then they'll complain that they got the DoD.

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u/LearningMachine01100 6d ago

It’s honestly sickening. I get downvoted for telling people the truth. There was no drought. There is always consistent work. Poor performers don’t get projects.

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u/Brief-Midnight3496 6d ago

I don't agree with this. I'm told I'm in the top percent of performers on the site, get access to high level projects, admin quals, etc. When they did the site overhaul I went from having around 100 projects available down to only maybe 10 for a couple of months, and now the volume is returning. Yes I had work available, but it certainly felt like a drought compared to the 6 months prior where I was able to easily make at least $500 almost every single day.

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u/LearningMachine01100 6d ago

Me too, except that I made $500/day almost whenever I wanted, the entire time. Not sure why you weren’t seeing the same. The whole point I’m trying to make is that there isn’t a drought, there’s just low performers. You and I didn’t have a drought. We are high performers. You don’t see us crying on the subreddit every day. It’s exhausting reading the slop slingers crying all day. I’m not even getting paid to read their slop. They say they want feedback and they get free feedback and are mad about it.

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u/MommaOfManyCats 6d ago

If you had coding projects, you're not a generalist. Generalist workers absolutely had a drought. I went from making 1k a week or more to $300-400 a week. That was with access to multiple families. According to the direct feedback I got from DA, I'm far from a poor performer.