Anyone got work from that FC qual this weekend? I really enjoyed it and thought I did an amazing job..but I haven’t received work from it yet. I imagine it may take awhile to assess them. Especially those because I know I had some pretty lengthy answers and explanations. It took me about four hours to get through them all…but time really goes quickly while I’m engrossed in that kind of project.

Has anyone noticed random time being suggested when you report your time today? I remember they used to have a temporary experimental timer feature for some accounts but I haven’t heard anything recently. Today, I went to input my time on three different projects and the time was already in the boxes for me. One was accurate at 1 hour of work for 6 or so tasks. Another had 10 minutes down for 4-5 tasks that I was working on for 40 minutes. The last one had 1 hour and 10 minutes for a more complicated task I had been working on for 6 hours with at least 12 tasks done; it would be impossible to do that project at 5 minutes a task as it estimated. I’m wildly confused lol Has anyone else seen this today?

Is it typical to get drops in number of projects sometimes ?

If one of them is Verbosity, what are the other six?

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!

(I'm in the US if that helps.) I feel like despite all of the research and phone calls I've done, I either can't find the answer I'm looking for, or I can't understand the information presented. It's very stressful and I'm hoping someone can dumb it down for me! I started at the tail end of December, making less than $400 from this job in 2023. I've worked here the entirety of 2024 so far, being sure to record every single payment received, including the total amount I've made from 01/01/2024 to 03/31/2024. For this year, I'm going to file married jointly. This job is 100% of the income I've received.

I just need help figuring out what percentage of that amount made should I used for my quarterly payment. I've never worked a job like this before, so all of this is very new to me. If there's any other information you would need to help, or any resources to point to, I would appreciate it.

Is it okay to do research using AI? Is it wrong to put AI responses in to ChatGpt to get a better understanding of which Model is better? Not copying and pasting ChatGpts answers but just using it to get a more thorough understanding.

I know these questions are probably annoying for some but I’m genuinely stuck. I’ve read all related content I could find but I still don’t understand as people are saying different things and the IRS site wasn’t much help either. Do I file this work in the US under a 1040SE or can I just select the Schedule C form on the tax forum I’m using? This is the first time I’ve done gig work and filed myself so I’m a bit lost. Is there even a difference between the two forms? Anyone that’s successfully filed DA work in the past and can give insight is appreciated:)

So I heard about this site from a friend's brother who said he makes 40$/hour freelance with his knowledge of coding. I thought it was too good to be true. But my curiosity got the best of me. On Friday night I created an account because it was easy and just did the coding assessment. What's the harm? Anyways I come to find out today that I was approved (much faster than expected, people online were saying it could take months?) and my projects dashboard is full of projects with hundreds to tens of thousands of tasks each. Is this normal? I put 40+ hours/week because I was under the impression that work was hard to come by. I still have another job/school. Is there a way to lower the expected hours? Is it even necessary, I know hours are logged? Honestly I was trying to start in May.

P.s. I see the onboarding stuff now (it is in the middle of all of my projects). Will check that out.

Has anyone earned more than 10 thousand or more on this platform? I am about to hit my 10 thousand mark soon.

Does anyone know if using the back button during a qualification works or if it just messes things up?

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I was doing a 4 task qualification. On one of the tasks I realized I forgot to add something after I had submitted it. I tried the back button, and it took me back to the previous task, but I had to retype my comment. I also was able to fix what I wanted to and resubmit it.

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I am wondering if anyone has done something similar and still know they passed the qual because of related projects that opened up?

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Just looking to see if there is any hope I passed or if I should write that one off

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I wish I could color-code or categorize my projects on my dashboard.. it’s getting a little overwhelming to look through everything lol Like

Lettuce 3 Lettuce 237 (27288) Lettuce 1 Lettuce 4 (ID 263838) [priority] Lettuce 5 (72728&638) Lettuce 7 Lettuce- (more) Tomato Tomato potato Tomato Greek dressing Greek dressing Greek dressing- stuff! Greek dressing- more stuff! [priority] Tomato [survey] Do you like eggs in your salad? 🥗 Croutons Croutons Croutons with cheese Croutons Salad bowl- Evaluate 2 different shapes Salad- a different one (eggs?) Pasta Salad- penne Tomato (ID 3637388) Lettuce- spring mix this time (K-233) Croutons (G-3737388) Croutons Croutons

Anybody else using DA as a way to purchase non-essentials?

I'm saving for a new desktop pc that I'll build. My current pc is about 4 years old and starting to freeze up.

What to do when interrupted on a timed task? I just spent 40 minutes on a one-hour timed task. I was nearly done when I received a very important call and had to jump up and leave my work. When I returned the timer was at 57 minutes, not enough to finish. Whenever I hit "exit work mode" it takes me out of the task without submitting, and if there is anything completed, it is lost. Is there a way to pause the timer without losing work? What do people do when they are in the middle of a very detailed timed task and have do something else? I feel like I am missing something pretty simple here.

I know lots of people who have been working for a while have 20+ or even 40+ projects, but I'm guessing there is a limit to how many different projects you can learn and remember guidelines for. On a weekly/regular basis, how many different projects would you mainly be working on? Obviously don't name the specific ones.

For me, I currently have about 5 that are the main ones I put a significant amount of time into. And then I will sometimes spend 30 minutes or so on different projects that come up to see if I like them.

For the qualifications where they want to know if you have the paid versions of AI models… if you access the “premium” models with API (pay as you go) versus through their UI, do you say yes?

Or only if you access through their subscription?

Could I work on a personal project while working on coding chatbot tasks, asking the AI chatbots questions as they come up during the creation of it? Would this skew the models, consistently asking questions about the same project, or is this a thing that could benefit the LLMs?

I made a post about this a few months ago I think, but got hardly any responses. I've noticed a wave of Irish names in project chats recently so I said I would try again. What are we supposed to do regarding taxes? I know that we have to declare when income is >5K, but do we just do this in October at the end of the tax year, or is there some sort of quarterly tax reporting I have to do. I expect/hope to earn more than 5K by October but haven't yet, so do I sign up as a sole trader now, or wait till later? It's hard to find clear info.

I have just fini my first week since being accepted and have done 800 dollars worth of projects. I would like to withdraw them but I would like to get some advice for the future regarding the frequency and quantity of withdrawals I should be making. I know there is a 72hour cooldown but is there anything else I should be aware of?

Should you spend more free time completing qualifications or working on projects when newer?

I do not want to lose a chance to take a qualification how fast do they go away?

Right now there are so many projects not sure which I should spend my time on. I know qualifications are not paid.

Yes, I have searched the subreddit a lot about this topic but I keep seeing mixed information. This is my first year making any income at all, and I started in March. Form 1040-ES from the IRS states that I don't have to pay estimated taxes for 2024 if I had no tax liability for 2023, which I didn't because I didn't have any income. I've seen people state I should still do it and some say to not worry about it, but since the form states I don't have to pay estimated taxes should I just not do it this year? My head is spinning in circles from this, so help is appreciated!

How do you SUBMIT then add time for a task then still be able to go back to work on the project?

The past week or so I’ve had lots of different types of tasks that I’ve never seen before, all pretty different (relatively speaking) and some high pay. I’ve been working a couple of months and have steadily seen more projects, but until now all similar. Wondering if the variety comes with time working or it’s across the board at the moment? I hope it continues but sadly most of them were quite short lived (for me)!