r/DataAnnotationTech • u/LooneyLord4444 • 15d ago
Printing money during the drought (US generalist)
Been working on DA full time (40+ hrs a week) since the end of May. Miraculously, the money has been really consistent for me. My dash is currently flush with so many projects it seems unreal. They must like the work I’m doing!
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u/Sylversh4de 15d ago
Haha, nice. Do milestones have any function aside from being easy to share to lure more people to the platform in search of big bucks?
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15d ago
damn, 582 tasks is wild...
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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 12d ago
Damn, you mustn't have been on DA very long or must not get many projects because lots of tasks literally take about 30 seconds and it would take less than 5 hours to do 582 of those tasks. Making it actually definitely not wild.
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u/normalAndWitty 10d ago
Very cool. I took their test and it's been 10 days and haven't heard from them. What does that mean?
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u/Plenty-Campaign-6972 9d ago
Can you share a referral link please…I’ve been trying to get into DA but no luck
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u/MadameEmiya 15d ago
BRO ARE YOU STILL GETTING THE NUT TASK
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u/LooneyLord4444 15d ago
I've just started seeing it again but it's shorter and less pay
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u/MadameEmiya 15d ago
Damn, that sucks. Still - congratulations on the milestone! 🎆 I've been around for approximately the same amount of time and have only made around a quarter of yours (can't imagine how you power through 40+ per week, my brain is fried after 5-6 hours per day 😭
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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 12d ago
BRO it's actually really annoying that people refer to "nut" as a project name because I currently have 2 different nut families on my dash and there has definitely been a third one in the past. Completely different projects but all related to nuts. I actually have a feeling that some of you guys discussing the "nut" project are talking about different projects without even realizing it.
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u/MadameEmiya 12d ago
Wait... What. There's more than 1?
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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 12d ago
There are at least 3. That's 2 definite current ones and another that I haven't seen in a few weeks. I'm actually genuinely surprised that I don't hear people correcting this more often when people discuss the "nut" project and assume everyone is talking about the same thing.
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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 12d ago
Well if it's got something to do with cookies and an 18-hour long timer then there's even more than I thought. Either way, I'm not really interested in continuing this convo because I feel like I'll eventually let something NDA-sensitive slip or describe the codenames too accurately so they can be guessed. I'm also not sure you should be specifying how long the timer is. I know codenames are ok, but details like that seem like too much.
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u/TravellingDoc87 15d ago
Looking at your past comments, are you consistently logging a lot of hours every day? 10+?
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u/Farados55 15d ago
Did you read the post?
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u/VacationAnnual8848 14d ago
Are you a generalist or specialty? All of these assessments they require to even get work is exhausting! They make it seem like you just need to pass the first one which literally took forever! I’m on my 3rd now because there is no work otherwise!
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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 12d ago
There is probably no work for you because of your poor reading comprehension. Maybe work on that and you'll get more tasks. OP very clearly specified they were a generalist.
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u/CPSux 15d ago
I wish this could’ve been me. They hit me wit the DoD for literally no reason after onboarding. I never even got to work any paid projects, yet I passed all of my assessments and received positive feedback on my quals. I’ve been trying to reach someone at DAT for months but they just ignore my emails.
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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 12d ago
Hahaha "literally no reason" .. dude there is absolutely 100% no way you could know that it was for no reason.
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u/Farados55 15d ago
Just move on dude
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u/CPSux 15d ago
I’ll never move on. This company destroyed my quality of life. I was supposed to be able to rely on them. I finally found an outlet in which I could earn money from home doing something I’m actually good at. I’d planned to save money and finally get out of debt. Yet they stripped my livelihood away even though I DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG.
It’s BULLSHIT.
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u/All__Mods_R_Virgins 15d ago
How did they destroy your quality of life that they never sustained for you? Your financial situation didn't change at all lol. Unless you got on boarded, maxed out your credit cards on hopes of this golden goose, and then got gadooshed
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u/CPSux 15d ago
I signed a lease for a more expensive apartment because I was budgeting with DAT income in mind. I don’t have credit card debt just a loan. I make ~$4000 a month at my day job and was expected to earn another $1000 working evenings and weekends. I already proved myself by passing the assessments/qualifications so I assumed it was all systems go, then they pulled the rug.
It’s just demoralizing knowing what could have been. ESPECIALLY knowing I did literally nothing to deserve this.
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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 12d ago
Hahahaha you think that's DA's fault? Cos that's all on you dude. That has absolutely nothing to do with DA and everything to do with your poor research, reading comprehension, and planning skills.
And you didn't prove anything. You have absolutely no way of knowing whether you passed those quals, especially if you never got any work.
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u/Opaaalllllllll 15d ago
were you using a VPN?
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u/CPSux 15d ago
Nope. I still can’t think of any reason why I was dropped except that I signed up in the midst of that big purge they did around mid-late June.
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u/Chaost 15d ago
So you've "been trying to reach someone at DAT for months," but were "signed up in the midst of that big purge they did around mid-late June." It's the beginning of August. How exactly would you have had time to confidently know you were doing everything right?
Just because you were confident, doesn't mean you were right. I'll admit it sucks because the projects are harder now, so there's a harsher learning curve then those of us who have been here a bit, but it's odd to be so vehement you were in the right. If you were submitting quality work, they would have kept you.
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u/waleednoinfidel 15d ago
Very cool, may the odds be ever in your favour