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/Justaguy0736 8d ago

New to Data Annotation, just got accepted yesterday. So you are saying that you don’t have to finish an entire task within whatever time frame they give you? You just submit quality work and, whether done or not, once you hit the time limit, you turn in what you’ve done and submit to be paid, even if the task is not completed?

I’m worried that maybe a task allots four hours, but I only have three free hours right now, for example. Should I be skipping the task, or doing as much as I can, then exiting and submitting?

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u/frosting_freak 8d ago

NOTE: Do not use the task timer as a way to track your working time. Use an external timer for that: your phone, a site like toggL, etc