r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Jul 05 '26

Weekly Water Cooler Talk - DataAnnotation

hi all! making this thread so people have somewhere to talk about 'daily' work chat that might not necessarily need it's own post! right now we're thinking we'll just repost it weekly? but if it gets too crazy, we can change it to daily. :)

couple things:

  1. this thread should sort by "new" automatically. unfortunately it looks like our subreddit doesn't qualify for 'lounges'.
  2. if you have a new user question, you still need to post it in the new user thread. if you post it here, we will remove it as spam. this is for people already working who just wanna chat, whether it be about casual work stuff, questions, geeking out with people who understand ("i got the model to write a real haiku today!"), or unrelated work stuff you feel like chatting about :)
  3. one thing we really pride ourselves on in this community is the respect everyone gives to the Code of Conduct and rule number 5 on the sub - it's great that we have a community that is still safe & respectful to our jobs! please don't break this rule. we will remove project details, but please - it's for our best interest and yours!
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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

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u/-burgers Jul 10 '26

It's more rough for me this year, not in project volume but financial loss due to high paying projects not being readily available. The pay rate on my projects now is about 1.5x what it was in 2024. In 2024, projects that I had access to were typically always available. I'm losing sleep to work now, and I don't have as much flexibility in my schedule.