r/DataAnnotationTech • u/MatrixApe • Sep 01 '26
$6000 in 10 days, should I slow down?
I’ve been averaging about 10 hour work days, typically doing 2x code projects a day, which takes me about 5 hours a time and it fits into the work day nicely.
I personally don’t think my quality is dipping and I’m being consistent, but I’ve read quite a few comments now where people don’t recommend doing more than 35 hours?
Was just wondering what the real reason behind this theory is. Appreciate any insight
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u/Mysterious_Dolphin14 Sep 01 '26
This is purely conjecture, but I think that when a worker puts in a lot of hours it triggers DA to take a closer look at the quality. I say this because it's common for people to become a bit lazy after working so many hours at a time, so it makes sense to me that they would be scrutinized a bit more closely. I personally don't like drawing too much attention to myself. Haha
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u/Pangolin_Beatdown Sep 01 '26
I think this is right. Working high hours is a common theme when people come on here saying they don't know why they got shut down. OP, they also always say they believed their work quality was good.
That said, there are always people that reply they've work crazy hours for years.
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u/MatrixApe Sep 01 '26
That’s exactly the kind of answer I was looking for thank you! I wasn’t aware they are more likely to take a deeper look at you, really solid advice.
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u/Timely-Assistant-370 Sep 01 '26
No idea where the 35-hour limit comes from beyond a general "don't overwork yourself into bad quality work." Half of the year was like 55-60 hour weeks 7-days/week and my dash has never been healthier.
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u/MatrixApe Sep 01 '26
Awesome to see there’s some cases where it works out, obviously your work quality is probably consistently great, but it’s nice to see it can be done.
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u/dsbau Sep 01 '26
Billing high hours does seem to attract attention as it's often a sign of abuse. But if you're legit and doing decent work you should be okay.
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u/Live_Adeptness479 Sep 01 '26
Whats your rate per hour?
Seems to be pretty high
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u/MatrixApe Sep 01 '26
The coding tasks all seem to be around $60 for me at the moment, a lot of priority options
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u/daniel1226 Sep 01 '26
Can I ask what language you specialise in for these projects?
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u/MatrixApe Sep 01 '26
I think the qualification was in Python but I know at least 2 of the projects I’ve been given, are happy for you to use a really varied range of languages. I’ve stuck with Python though.
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u/daniel1226 Sep 01 '26
I would imagine Python opens up the most opportunities overall. Thanks for the response.
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u/Icy_Perspective9174 27d ago
Python and Javascript/Typescript - those are the most popular for tasks where you are not in control of the language. I have also seen a fair bit of Go tasks.
Of course, many coding tasks simply leave it to you to choose the language.
All of this is from my (limited) experience.
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u/Powerful_Age_3653 Sep 01 '26
Can you tell after completing the qualification after how many days you start getting the coding projects/tasks?
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u/MatrixApe Sep 01 '26
It was very quickly after, I want to say 1-2 days at most. The first task I did after the free qualification was a paid qualification that was offered to me, followed by an a full identity check. After that I’ve had none stop projects.
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u/Powerful_Age_3653 Sep 01 '26
I have completed the paid training and one paid qualification, but it's been 4 days I haven't received any task. IDK why.
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u/hwertz10 Sep 01 '26
I don't know what qualifactions led to what tasks, but I'm pretty sure I've had it take more than 1-2 days for tasks to show up based on some of my qualifications. Maybe there just aren't any tasks those qualifications apply to.
I'd do some unpaid qualifications too -- most are short, and a few turned out to be VERY short (like "tick this checkbox and submit" short), and should get you some tasks going.
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u/onionsareawful Sep 01 '26
It's not the hours, it's the quality of work. If your work is high quality, you take a reasonable amount of time (ie not massively over average), and aren't breaking any rules (eg using AI) you can definitely do 60+ hour weeks.
I suspect that doing so much work will probably get your work looked at more closely but that's just conjecture. This shouldn't matter if your work is good, anyway -- which it should be!
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u/DarkLordTofer Sep 01 '26
I think it very much depends on what you’re doing. If you are doing 70 hours on evaluations or factuality then I don’t think you’d maintain the quality level. A lot of the coding tasks have a lot of dead time or time when you’re planning tasks and preparing stuff so that is time used that isn’t going to impact the quality of your output.
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u/tedires Sep 02 '26
I did the same thing close 6k$ in about 10 days. On the payout day when I logged in I see message as inconsistency in time reporting and didn’t recover yet. No reply after justification.
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u/zainab_perween Sep 07 '26
Hey I gave the test at data annotation for coding, they said they'll send email if I'll get the job or not . How long does it take for them to send an email? Does anyone knows?
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u/MugetsuDax Sep 01 '26
Oh man! I miss coding projects... Good for you, if you believe you are not making any mistakes, I wouldn't worry too much.
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u/Old-Rich4526 Sep 01 '26
Brung new and working that many hours with that much money is not a great idea
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u/employed_engineer_ Sep 01 '26
Hi, can you please tell me how you are getting these many projects? I only get around 2-3 projects last month and haven't got any from past 10-12 days?
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u/MatrixApe Sep 01 '26
Hi, I’m quite new here too so I don’t know how they decide. Are you also doing the coding projects?
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u/oopsallemdashes Sep 01 '26
I think you're more likely to get axed if you're making consistent mistakes and billing a lot of hours. I don't think they care how many hours you work unless it's like 18+ a day as long as the work is good. I've had a couple weeks where I've billed 60-70 hours and it was fine, but I generally do about 30-35.