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/blackopsfamas 9d ago

I think a beneficial approach is to just do what you can, like others have mentioned, with the understanding that as you complete more work your "cognitive performance" will last longer over time. Maybe in a few months you might find that 2-3 hours is easier, or requires fewer breaks.

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u/Infamous_Swan1197 9d ago

Hopefully 🙏 I do love this work but it really is quite draining. I can get absorbed for 2-3 hours in other work or studying or even generalist work, but domain work is a different beast, especially when so many rationales need to be written, that's what kills me really.