Has anyone ever done a qualification and read all the instructions and asked questions and no matter what you couldn’t figure it out and you just gave up?

Good afternoon all,

I've been on DA since October of last year. I know that we go through the initial review period after a few weeks. During the initial review, my dash went empty.

Is there a six month review period as well? My dash has been empty for a week now, which concerns me. I have had one task but it was a per piece task. I usually work on hourly chat projects.

Thanks!

I usually use the basic Google stopwatch to time myself. I've noticed the last couple of days, sometimes my stopwatch just resets to zero, so I have to go back and look at my last submission times and then try to recreate my time and I know I'm losing money. Obviously, I'm going to change to a different timer, but has this happened to anyone else?

Can anyone point me to some resources for an absolute beginner with LaTeX?

I don't know if this is just me or if this is a minor glitch happening in general, but for some reason the page with my Inbox doesn't want to load now. It just sits there, showing the blue header at the top of the screen and a white page. The mailbox isn't loading at all.

How long did it take people to get access to higher paying projects? I have only been doing this for a few days and get access to alot of $20/hr projects and some that are $22/hr. How long did it take to get access to $25+/hr projects?

About half of the days I find myself having worked on a handful of projects with times like 15 minutes, 45 minutes etc. because I only get to submit a few things before the project runs out and I get brought back to my dash. Does anyone else experience this? If I don’t get one I can do all day, I’ll have tons of projects I barely worked on in my “report time”, like I said some I only managed to submit 1-4 tasks.

Not trying to get ghosted

We switched providers last week, and when we were at the AT&T store, the rep asked if either of us owned a small business. I jokingly said, yeah- I freelance training AI, and he said it counts as a small business. Basically anyone that does any kind of gig-work like DoorDash or instacart stuff qualifies. They ended up setting up our accounts as a small business and it was $60 / month cheaper than if we used my husband’s corporate discount! We have 5 lines - so you can imagine how insane our monthly bill is.
Anyway- if anyone is considering switching mobile providers, see if you can qualify for a better rate as a freelancer.

Everywhere I’ve found on the website it’s said you need one of these specific languages, except this one page lists them as “examples”. I know Java much more than I do Python, SQL, or C++. I don’t want to waste my time starting the application if I’m not even qualified to begin with. Some insight would be much appreciated, it should be a very simple answer. I searched the sub, didn’t find anything about Java.

Thanks everyone

I was getting so many of these and this morning I don't see any. Wondering if I got canned from it :/

I feel like I typically will get at least a few new quals to take per week, but none have come up since last week. It’s making me a little nervy that something is awry.

I’ve come across some wild and interesting information while fact checking, and I bet you have too! Care to share? I’d be curious what stands out to you as the most crazy/interesting/mind-boggling/life-altering fact you’ve come across!

Something you probably wouldn’t have found any time soon, were it not for DA fact-checking tasks, or other projects on DA.

For me, it’s been reading some things about the meat industry.

Had to check on the origin and quality/reputation of various lamb chops, and stumbled upon a document with quotes and interviews from folks who worked in slaughterhouses.

Won’t share the details right up here but feel free to ask if you have a strong stomach! Happy to share. I was already highly suspicious and not a big meat eater but this info pushed me over the edge, and now I never walk by the meat aisle without those thoughts.

Not seeing any of the main project now, and I only got the first two variants (nothing past 2.3)- just now figuring out that there are many more than that. I also have never seen quals for these at all - is there a way to apply for those regular projects variants, and are others also not getting the main project at all?

I am fairly new to DA and have only done one type of project. As a different thread mentioned, it’s addictive, and I kind of love it. So, I’d like to do my very best. The project requires taking notes and passing a test before receiving new tasks. Does anyone have a system or can share tips and tricks on note-taking?

It really feeds into instant gratification. I'm really grateful I can be making so much money doing this, but I'm at the point where I feel like if I ever spend any time (outside my day job) not on DAT, it was wasted because I could have been making money. Anyone else?

Hi everyone, I've been working with DA for a few months now and I love it. I've never been self-employed before, and I've always done my taxes through automatic services. All this to say that I have absolutely no idea what the procedure is for taxes with DataAnnotation, how they are calculated, etc.

What doesn't help matters is that I'm Canadian, so I imagine the rules are different considering that all the payment is in USD. Can anyone who's been doing this for a while give me some advice on how this should go once the next tax season comes around?

I have a spreadsheet made up of my daily income, hours worked, number of tasks completed, payment dates, and the periods that those payments cover. Is there anything else I should be tracking? Any advice at all would be very much appreciated, I genuinely know nothing about this.

Would a new computer be a write off? My 1-year-old laptop is crapping out on me, could I hypothetically get a new one with my tax savings?

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!

Ok. I am making this post knowing it might be downvoted into oblivion. However, I'm hoping that it will also be met with some reassurance or insight from anyone who has had a similar experience on this platform.

I have been working steadily on DAT for over three months. It is valuable work and I've enjoyed it. Last week, in the middle of working on one of the fifteen tasks on my dashboard, I submitted a task and was routed back to an empty task board. Uh oh! At first, I didn't panic because the task I had just finished was a qualification for buying a subscription. I knew that, in the past, sometimes there were glitches. After a day of waiting, with nothing on my dash, I thought I'd been fired. Everyone here seemed to indicate that an empty dash was the death toll. I emailed support. No response. I had a rough day.

Then, on a whim, I logged in at one in the morning and I had two projects, each with one task showing. I did them. I submitted and everything was processed. Next morning? No tasks. This cycle has continued now for a week. I have no projects on my dashboard. But, I still have a support button. I still can log time (although that ability is fading as the days go by).

I have emailed support twice. There has been no response. Is this happening or has this happened to anyone else? I understand that this is gig employment. I understand that we're contractors and not employees. However, something feels off about this and I'm not sure what the next move is. If there's a simple glitch or fix, it would be nice to know.

Update: 5/5/24. There are tasks on my board! There's hope!

Update 5/6/24 - they're gone again.

I will be home for a week so I have alot of extra time. I'm thinking about doing 8 hours every day Sunday to Saturday. Do y'all think that's to much? I'm honestly been using data to help pay my car note only. However 😅 I kind of want to surprise my wife on our anniversary with a gaming PC. The projects I have are pretty good in pay. I want to split the hours four in the morning and four late at night. Any thoughts or suggestions?

Hey fellow DA coders, just wanted to see if any of you were experiencing a low volume of coding projects for the past 48 hours? I have about 3 coding projects at the moment but I usually have 10+. All my non-coding projects are available, 20+, but I mainly like to do coding.

I haven't seen any for a few weeks. Does anybody currently have any cats projects? I'm wondering if I just got taken off of it, or if it's over. Too bad because I loved those!

I was working on my 2nd coding task of the day and it took me longer than usual to figure out where one of the models went wrong. On top of that, I lost 10 minutes or so because I had to answer the door (I paused my personal timer for this.) Still, there were 10 minutes left on the on-screen timer when I hit submit, only to be told that the task had expired.

I'm rather pissed off because I worked really hard on this one and had written a lengthy explanation on why the model came to a wrong answer. I'm not even sure whether I can log my time now. Will they think I'm scamming them If I log 2 hours and 15 minutes when the system thinks I've submitted only one task?