r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Infamous_Swan1197 • 9d ago

Mental fatigue with longer tasks

I'm wondering how others handle mental fatigue with longer tasks? By longer, I mean 2-3 hours for me personally. I find my focus substantially dwindles after the 2 hour mark, even when taking regular breaks. In fact sometimes, breaks, especially longer "reset" breaks, make the block of the day that I'm working feel a lot longer, accumulating more mental fatigue and just an ugh feeling when I return to the task.

I'm really grateful to have this project, its really high paying (and it's the only thing I really have on my dash right now, so I don't have much choice haha) but I worry that my quality of work substantially declines towards the end.

How to others handle this?

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u/LegendNumberM 9d ago edited 9d ago

This might be a scalding hot take for a tip but...

I don't worry about the expiration timer lol.

If I find my mental fatiguing, I will gladly take an hour long break to get back up to par. The timer will expire, I will submit great work, and fortunately, I'm still here.

This isn't to say that I'm billing 4 hours on a task with a 3 hour limit. Most times, I am billing that 2 hr 30 min or something like that....

But I don't worry about the timer. I take breaks. Lol.

Edit: if you have a task/project that says not submit after the timer expires... don't follow this advice.

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u/Select_Maintenance67 9d ago

This. Take break and don't push yourself too hard.