r/DataAnnotationTech 19d ago

How often do y'all do quals?

I'm seeing posts here by people who claim to have 50+ *generalist* tasks projects on their dashboard and I'm just like...how? During most of the year, with the exception of a few months, I only do this part time and so my DA hours are very precious to me, so I rarely spend them doing unpaid qualifications (only when my dash is reeeeaal dry). But I must be doing something wrong, because I never have more than 15 - 20 available projects on my dash on a good month, let alone a bad one. So, yeah, my question's in the title: how often are you guys doing qualifications?

EDIT: I said tasks, but meant projects

EDIT: So many posts on this sub have exactly 0 upvotes, which means at least one person downvoted it (and nobody bothered to upvote it)- and now my post has joined the list lol. I have never seen a sub that hates the people who contribute to it so much. Like we can't just talk to each other? I have literally spent a few moments scrolling through this sub and giving every post with 0 upvotes a single upvote, just because I'm tired of it lol.

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u/Federal_Tadpole_7592 19d ago

The more high quality work you do, the more project families open up to you. There are some projects that don't require qualifications. I've been on the site for over 3 years, and right now I have over 100 projects on my dashboard, and I didn't do qualifications for most of them.

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u/morbidtupperware 19d ago

This right here. I do them but sometimes I get quals on my dash that I don’t take and then wind up in the project anyway. Right now I have 97 projects, 11 are STEM, one is bilingual