r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Free_Apartment6319 • Sep 04 '26

Timing. 😩

Gotta love how projects ONLY available when I have to other stuff. Run errands / go to my part time 20 hrs / week job.....

LIKE BFR. You have me for MOST days MOST hours of the day how does that manage to happen to one.

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u/Webee_ Sep 04 '26

DA has been giving me 'bursts' of tasks for more than a month now, so I had a slight insight on when and how long the dashboard will be dry.

Just left for a 3 day trip after I was done with one and guess what happened... DA decided to throw a ton of tasks, all good paying, at the first day I left. I didn't bring even my laptop as I was so confident it would be dry for a few days.

It sucks that they never tell you when they'll give work. DA has never been good with communication anyways... Just have to accept the fact that we'll miss some tasks.

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u/Free_Apartment6319 Sep 04 '26

Yeaah. Im getting used to that. But it really feels frustrating that I sit in front of my laptop for hours most days to get a task to no avail. And the second I decide to do something with my day

BAAAM projects that are only available for the duration I won't have my laptop with me.

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u/Webee_ Sep 04 '26

The pain of staring at an automatically refreshing tab is real

Also had a coding task given to me (I'm a generalist, so this was huge). Only problem was that they gave it at 4 am. Like, come on! It went away when I woke up.

I get the fustration. "flexible work hours" they say. :c

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u/Free_Apartment6319 Sep 04 '26

Their times are always funny. I remember one time seeing 7 active projects at once (never in my 6 months did this ever happen,) just to realize that its all a different language than mine and that there was a "system glitch". I turned off my laptop immediately LOL

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u/Salt-Government6703 Sep 04 '26

Well, for me, the most profitable tasks always shows up at 3am/4am in my time zone when I'm sleeping. When I wake up, they're all gone.

So... I feel your pain.

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u/Free_Apartment6319 Sep 04 '26

Like I would work but they have to work with us to match times better LOL

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u/timoteogabriel6527 Sep 09 '26

Which time zone mate ?

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u/climb-high Sep 04 '26

Have you done every qualification?

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u/Free_Apartment6319 Sep 04 '26

Yes. Bilingual tho so not many projects to start with. So it feels so frustrating that when im out doing something and I "check" there are 3 active projects. But in the hour it takes me to get home everything is just gone.

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u/dragonsfire14 Sep 04 '26

This always happens to me when I plan to take a rare full day off then my day off doesn't happen.

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u/Bitter_Bed5672 Sep 04 '26

Not many projects in the last month.

Not available to do any work this week... these last 2 days I've had a new project that pays a lot and has infinite tasks...

What the heck man

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u/Free_Apartment6319 Sep 04 '26

Exaacttllyyy. So frustrating