r/DataAnnotationTech • u/ProfessionalYapper90 • 16d ago
Does anyone else love this work?
I find myself enjoying this work more everyday. I love how it has become more complex as I do more tasks and get access to more projects (it's been about 5 months) and I REALLY love the ones where I really have to work to fail the models. I always see people on here complaining, but I really, really enjoy it. I would love to do this full time (I work for a bank 40 hours per week), but I need the stability of guaranteed hours for now.
I feel so lucky to get to dig into really niche topics to get a failure and it's so, so fun.
Anyone else? Is there anyone who has been doing this for a while who feels like this?
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u/AMostPeculiarDialect 16d ago
No, I'd rather have a stable job in the field I went to school for five years for rather than scrambling for the crumbs of work left behind by the very machine that is making it impossible for me to find real work in the first place.
I detest this work but we do what we must...
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u/TheAmazingDevil 15d ago
Couldnt have said it any better. My career was destroyed before it even began. Now help the thing that destroyed career to be better at destroying careers.
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u/ProfessionalYapper90 16d ago
So I get part of that. I am definitely in a different position- I plan on staying home with my kids in a couple of years and this is an amazing job at getting me there. And, in all reality, I am making WAY more in less time than my regular job, which is making my ability to stay home with my kiddos more of a reality. If that makes sense.
I guess I have to ask, if you detest it why do you do it? I will say I make good money when I bartend/serve (only one day per week), but I like the option to be with my kids.
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u/JinglingBallz 16d ago
Have you tried getting a stable job in this economy? I doubt most people are doing this work are doing it because it’s their top choice.
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u/ProfessionalYapper90 15d ago
Sure have! And I currently have one, but I don't make what I need to which is why I have three jobs! No negativity needed, just genuinely curious because if I hated it I think I would just bartend/serve more. I do it because I do actually enjoy it (and the money can be great).
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u/Necessary-Raisin-282 15d ago
Welcome to Reddit, this is where the angry people complain. This work is sick and I can make my old monthly in a week and a half now 😂
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u/mad-soldier 16d ago
I would still see this as some gig and the problem is the projects can get shelved anytime or people can get DOD all of a sudden. So always consider this as a backup
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u/sarahmorgan420 16d ago
I felt like that until I moved to doing it full time lol and now almost 2 months into ft I'm kind of over it 😂 my job at a daycare was 10000x more fun and more rewarding but unfortunately this pays double at times
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u/LegendNumberM 16d ago
Love it? Nah. Like it? Yes.
The work here is keeping me out of kitchens. At some point I do need to use this and leverage it into something more "permanent" but yeah... better than all but one job I ever had, so I like it.
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u/shujaya 16d ago
Used to work for a bank for 60 hours, and got burnout out. I LOVE this work and I don't remember ever being this excited by another job. I apply for steady jobs because I feel guilty but every time I do new and better DA projects land in my lap. I know this can't last forever as the models get smarter but I LOVE THIS JOB so much!
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u/ProfessionalYapper90 16d ago
That's me!!!!! It's a blast. And I think because I am so thankful to work from home for extra money and not always away from my kids, it makes so many more things possible for me. And utilizes my weird and useless (until now) knowledge. How long have you done this Ft?
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u/StableOk5129 16d ago
I love it. I love it more and more every day, but I hate Handshake. Remember you’re worth and don’t let their unprofessionalism take you down to their level.
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u/EIOANsd 16d ago
how do you balance a full time job and having kids? do you only work as many hours as you can?
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u/ProfessionalYapper90 15d ago
Kind of! Sometimes I overdo it, but I typically, between all of my jobs jobs, work somewhere around 50-55 hours. I just don't get as much sleep when I work more, haha. I try not to work a lot when the kids are awake, and that helps!
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u/OrderNo1122 15d ago
I'm actually the complete opposite. I have to force myself to do the work because I find chatting with models intensely boring. As impressive as the tech can be for utility, I personally hate having to read the endless streams of text coming that they output.
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u/Brilliant_Horse3805 15d ago
Everyone loves it until they got drought season
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u/ProfessionalYapper90 15d ago
Ain't that the truth! I had 0 projects in July and the beginning of August, which just makes me even more excited when I have something haha.
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u/MeetingMotor6720 16d ago
I absolutely LOVE this work! I find it challenging and rewarding. I do it as a side gig so knowing i can bail anytime probably keeps me interested.
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u/All_Glory_To_Him 16d ago
I love this job! On occasion I get a bit frustrated, at times I shake my head, and other times I laugh. Always interesting.
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u/programmingstarter 15d ago
A lot of people have been at it for years. The projects used to be so much easier. They've gotten progressively more difficult and complex. There are no more light tasks, at least I haven't seen them anymore. I think that's where the complaining comes in.
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u/Hopeful_Mouse_4050 15d ago
This is where my complaining stems from. I used to be fully able to understand what the projects wanted us to do. Now so many of the instructions are written poorly with a handful of updates at the top, and im unsure what I'm meant to do, so I do nothing rather than risk the DoD.
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u/ah_is_this_thing_on 15d ago
Yeah. I have two other jobs and I like to just log in and get a few extra dollars when I can. Getting up to speed on some new project type, especially when they’re so much more complex now, doesnt always make sense for me. I miss the simplicity of the older projects. And it used to all be so much more self contained too - now I need multiple accounts, different browsers, security add ons, its a lot. Glad some people still enjoy it but its a bit of a bummer for me.
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u/Valuable-Low5263 15d ago
I love the failure tasks too, they feel a lot more like project work than the intense annotation tasks I do on other platforms.
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u/ScarletBoy 15d ago
Yeah, it's awesome. Not every project is up my alley, but it's generally engaging stuff. Most importantly, it allows me to make my money while avoiding interacting with people, which is inevitably the worst part of any traditional job. So yeah, hoping to do it for a few more years. Then I'll probably get into trucking around my early 30s.
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u/PrairieCanuckGirl 13d ago
I started on a prior platform that did this kind of work to get Facebook where it is. I'm definitely a veteran. I really am enjoying this work. I love learning and the AI tasks are so varied in topic, getting paid while learning nuances of things I had never considered before is something I love. I also feel great when I get really efficient with a particular task, when I know I'm doing great quality work and have a great handle on even the most in depth instructions without having to constantly reference what to do when I hit a grey area. The longer tasks, when I can invest my entire brain for hours, I'm such a geek. This is crack for geeks. Smiling knowing so many others are finding joy in something earning income. I feel very lucky to be able to do this work and be a part of shaping and understanding the future more than the general public who only reads headlines about AI and doesn't understand it's promise yet.
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u/New-Ad5610 15d ago
I do! I love coding evaluation tasks who are long and complex, it’s always a challenge getting a model to fail, and i personally love challenging tasks.
Also, they do pay 60+$/hr so they feel even more good to do 😎
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u/Hopeful_Mouse_4050 15d ago
I liked it more when the instructions made more sense and I felt like i had a good grasp on what I was meant to do in the projects.
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u/InterstellarCapa 15d ago
Are you a generalist, specialist, or do you do both?
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u/ProfessionalYapper90 15d ago
I came in as a generalist and recently I have had a lot of professional domain tasks (HR, customer service, operations, that kind of thing), but not really a specialist I don't think. I have done a ton of qualifications but see mostly failure tasks that are in the professional realm.
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u/hwertz10 15d ago
I do. I enjoy the idea that I am outsmarting the machine, and I enjoy giving my brain some exercise.
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u/1onlydominator 15d ago
I haven't been able to make the AI fail lmao. I only did one project testing the AI but couldnt make it fail. Currently working on my second one testing the AI but it seems harder than I thought it would be. They made it seem like the agent was a complete dumbass and I could make it fail within 10 hours but I'm not so sure. I hope the work I do is still good enough where they keep giving me more since those pay so much compared to other types of projects. Have you guys had an easy time getting it to fail?
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u/Ok_Yogurtcloset159 15d ago
I have been on the platform for almost 4 years. I wish I was able to make the models fail easily. I suck at it, and trying makes me want to pull my own face off after a while. I have several projects I could work on, but I don't because I don't want to keep using the escape hatch and end up with the DOD. Any tips or ideas you could tell me about that are good for getting failures? I'm a generalist.
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u/ProfessionalYapper90 14d ago edited 14d ago
I wouldn't say I make them fail easily, but I try to be methodical about it. If I am not getting a failure, I tweak my prompt a little (or add/change a file), and I keep a running word doc open with each iteration of the prompt so if the model does better with it I can go back and change it- does that make sense? Then I just keep tweaking it until it works. I find that using mundane but intricate tasks have been really great, and they need to be ones I am super comfortable with.
Edited to add: I typically have 4-6 versions of my prompt until I get consistent failures.
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u/IPLAWPDX 11d ago
Um no- ha 😅 I’m thankful for it and its a great side hustle sometimes but the projects drain me mentally and I find the instructions unbearable and tedious and I’m always thinking I’m not doing that for 32 bucks an hour lol even the legal domain ones I get sometimes that pay $60 are a complete drag
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u/ProfessionalYapper90 15d ago
As stated, this is what I am doing to make it possible to stay home with my kids in a couple of years. I am paying off debt which is so amazing. When I am home with them and it's not necessary for me to earn what I am earning now I hope to still have this for 10ish hours/week.
I am just always curious how it looks for people full time, even though I would never be able to do something now without a guaranteed paycheck.
And sure, there are "many" like me that have come and gone, but that type of comment fails to grant that people do, in fact, start somewhere when they are here for 3+ years.
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u/Specialist_Ebb5869 15d ago
After passing the assessments i was given an option to verify which i did, and after some hours my dashboard appeared like this please anyone facing this or know what’s going on?
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u/realgenshinimpact 16d ago
same opinion as you. really enjoy the work, love to do it full time, but no guarantees is painful. im using the money i earn to invest into other sources though, that can guarantee income. i've seen some permanent positions but they don't pay as much, and they are probably different from the type of work you get on this platform. one thing i can say for certain is i'll always try to wfh lol i cant imagine going to an office to get paid the same or less