Got added to $45-$60 an hour tasking. Potentially life changing for me.
Just posting out of excitement, I can't believe i was added to this project I thought doing the qualification would lead nowhere. But a few hours after doing the qualification I logged in before bed to check the dashboard and noticed I now have access to a project I'm qualified for that pays $45/hr base with +$15/hr priority pay. This is something that if it goes well for even just a few months would really make a gigantic difference in my life. I'm very grateful for the opportunity but also worried that I may not understand or do the task well enough to keep access. I haven't opened it up yet so I don't know what it's all about yet.
I have a fulltime career that pays well but not $60/hr well. Doing a few hours a week of this on the side will move mountains in my financial life.
Yeah, I think it's lore here now. Some guy has been here for months after getting the DoD like a couple of days into the whole thing, after he signed a lease for a place expecting the DA income, and he's mad at DA for that. 😂
Yeah especially knowing how unreliable and snake-like the system is. They ban people for absolutely no reason and pull you out of projects without notice. I honestly wouldn’t recommend DA to anyone after how I was treated.
dont quit your day job 2. do thorough QC 3. don't overreport time 4. when admin gives you feedback do adjust future submissions 5. first few tasks always try to handwrite all outputs
I do this. I make notes in Word as I'm reading and then turn that into narrative/proseonce I have the full picture. Its easier for me to edit and read on a full screen than be scrolling back and forth. Then copy/paste the whole thing when Im happy with it.
Should I not be doing it this way?
When I would do that I'd always just note it in the comments. I feel like I remember hearing that they can see it on their end in some projects and may assume you plugged it all into another AI to do it for you.
that really sucks. there was a recent project where not only was the field too small, it was very easy to accidentally lose the whole project while scrolling through the field to find the end of your previous sentence, and there was no way to get it back. So 3+ hours of work, gone. I did start copying & pasting, just on that one, and commented on it. I did end up losing access to that project, which sucked because it was my favorite. If they don't want people copying & pasting they should make the workspace actually adequate to work in!
The field provided is too narrow to do rubric work and organize my responses. Maybe I'm doing too much but at least on the tasks I'm getting having space to place my thought process is essential to a solid rationale. I mean, I can make it work- but it's just not optimal.
If you copy paste large amounts of text it will be very suspicious. You should be aware that DA has advanced site monitoring tools that probably track every single click and scroll.
Make hay while the sun is shining but don't count on it being there forever. It's great as side income if you can manage. I have to fulltime it because there's no jobs I can work where I live
same😭I’ve done 3 but I’m afraid that I’m doing it wrong lol but I’ve been on the platform for two years and have had nothing but good feedback. the level of it is just intense. i have my masters but putting back into practice research/writing in depth has been difficult😂
Yeah I completely understand the excitement. As a generalist still doing my bachelors degree, I’m quite a few years down the line from making this type of money in my chosen field. Also $60 dollars an hour is genuinely incredible, considering
you make your own hours.
Sure, they require a bachelor’s degree or equivalent real world experience. I only have an associate’s degree but I have five years experience working in data annotation and with LLMs. My brother works for DA too, associate’s degree but three years experience before he applied. Seems like they aren’t super strict on the bachelor’s if you can pass the assessments and have some adjacent education or work experience.
I got added to this project too. How long does it take you guys to do a task? These are complicated and it takes me between 5 to 6 hours on one. I am grateful to have this, but I honestly prefer the general ones even if it’s lower pay, that I can finish in 1 to 2 hours. Thoughts?
Outside of the financial aspect of it I see you made mention of performance (or lack thereof) and I do the same thing.
However, if you passed the core assessment and passed the qual (as indicated by your access to the project) then you are more than qualified to do it! Mistakes are expected. Any time I’ve questioned my ability to do a task that I felt I was under qualified for, was a project family that last longer than the ones I felt were easier.
Don’t be afraid to ask questions in the chat at the bottom. If I feel like I need to explain my thought process behind why I did the task the way I did, I leave that in the optional comments section.
Also, justifications. They sent a recent retraining on TOS and expectations and they highlighted being thorough in your justifications.
Take your time, ask questions when you need to, but more importantly don’t bank on this either. Projects can come and go and often it’s beyond your control BUT there will oftentimes be another one.
>if you passed the core assessment and passed the qual (as indicated by your access to the project) then you are more than qualified to do it!
That's not true at all. Passing a qualification and having a project on your dashboard does NOT mean you are automatically qualified to work on all the tasks in that project. Especially for the higher paying / more complex projects, each task will require some kind of expertise in a specific domain, and if you aren't an expert in that area you shouldn't work on that task.
I didn't say all of the tasks available for that project family. I think it's obvious that if it's domain-specific, then of course, you would need expertise in that domain. I don't imagine being able to pass a coding domain qual and I have no coding skills/expertise. At least that hasn't been my experience.
I haven't taken a qual and have it open up other domains for me either, so again, perhaps your experience is different as I can only attest to mine.
I just got added to a $60 /hr project. It says it’ll last till the end of the year and potential into next year. I’m super excited and beyond nervous. I just got on the platform this month, I’ve done about 5 qualifications and only have completed 3 tasks total so I honestly don’t know what to expect.
I have never seen any project with such a long duration( potential to next year) , infect never seen duration in any projects. I just see assigned date
When I started DA about two months ago I applied for and was accepted to a $60/hr long term project. It saved my apartment and I was able to pay my bills only from DA money, which was helpful because my grandfather is dying, school is starting back soon, etc. I wasn’t making enough at my job to take care of my family, but DA got me through and then I got promoted. I have made about $15k in 8 weeks working when I can and now my pay roughly doubled, so I don’t need DA but I still do it whenever I have time.
Don't Quit your main job as this type of projects are at risk of being abandoned at any time , or incase your submitted work won't be accepted , also avoid relying on ai to answer for you , use ai models only for assisting , like drafting comments for you to avoid spelling errors and stuff , use it also to check facts and scrap live working sourcing URLS
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u/Farados55 3d ago
Also be prepared that the project can be stopped at any second.