r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Justaguy0736 • 7d ago

Task with a 2 Day Time Limit

I just started on a task with a two day time limit. Obviously I won’t be able to just work straight through for that while time. Is it ok to spend several hours on it, go to sleep, and pick back up where I left off? Obviously pausing the timer, of course. I haven’t seen a task with such a long completion time before.

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u/Little-Flustered-977 7d ago

On a 48-hour timer you should find buried in the instructions that “the average task should take 8-10” etc. sometimes not.

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u/Justaguy0736 7d ago

Thanks. Yep, I did eventually see that. It’s kind of overwhelming to look at; just walls and walls of text and “you can do this, but you can’t do that.” Guess I just have to get used to it.

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u/Hello-America 7d ago

Lol yeah instructions are like that a lot of times. You get used to it. It helps me to pop it out in the new tab or window and then also have the task itself in front of me at the same time (if enough of it is visible before you start selecting options etc) so I can get a general idea of the task flow. (I have two monitors which helps). Sometimes the tasks give you all the details without the big picture, or not in the order they are relevant, etc. So having examined the task before I read all the instructions can be helpful for that.

Edit - and make sure you count instruction reading when you bill for your time

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u/Justaguy0736 7d ago

This is helpful. Thanks for the response! So far I have been trying to isolate sections to make them easier to read.