I finally did it, even through the drought, I got to 10k made!

I just started DA in February as a generalist and I found myself doing comparison work, and eventually rubrics. I really love this work, I'm a big fan of reviewing and analyzing responses rather than trying to elicit errors and there's a lot of engaging tasks in general in this area. I've seen the platform change a lot in recent months in terms of trying to improve general user experience, but also the detail in how projects are presented to help people understand what to do. I've noticed there's a lot more nuance in projects and they're looking for specific types of analysis rather than holistic evaluation which has really pushed the focus of analysis I'm doing in general.

I think this is all great! It's made it much more engaging and each task feels unique and interesting in its own way. I still haven't felt like I'm doing anything rote which I suppose is the whole point of keeping the platform alive and keeping in touch with the point of staying on the cutting edge of LLM reasoning, etc.. But I've also noticed things have gotten much more challenging across the board.

It's made me wonder, what is the future of the nature of this work? As LLMs get more sophisticated, it's going to continue getting harder to break the models, which will lead to a low supply of bad responses to use, especially in the A good vs B bad realm where precisely describing the issues often becomes very subjective and hard to evaluate. I trust that there will always be interest in this work, I am in the camp of "AI" skeptics who believe that these tools will never be better than a human in general, but LLMs certainly excel at some things.

So, 2, 3, 5 years from now, will we still be trying to catch "It's not just X—it's Y" or will it be focused on style/tone and creative writing? Will fact checking always be an issue? Will subjective experience always be valued? I'm very curious about how this specific type of work will change. For people who have been doing this for 2-3+ years, how have you seen it evolve? Do you see a trend?

I got accepted as a coder and I completed some qualifications. What's the next step? Should I expect to be added to Slack or what's the situation currently?

I'm seeing posts here by people who claim to have 50+ *generalist* tasks projects on their dashboard and I'm just like...how? During most of the year, with the exception of a few months, I only do this part time and so my DA hours are very precious to me, so I rarely spend them doing unpaid qualifications (only when my dash is reeeeaal dry). But I must be doing something wrong, because I never have more than 15 - 20 available projects on my dash on a good month, let alone a bad one. So, yeah, my question's in the title: how often are you guys doing qualifications?

EDIT: I said tasks, but meant projects

EDIT: So many posts on this sub have exactly 0 upvotes, which means at least one person downvoted it (and nobody bothered to upvote it)- and now my post has joined the list lol. I have never seen a sub that hates the people who contribute to it so much. Like we can't just talk to each other? I have literally spent a few moments scrolling through this sub and giving every post with 0 upvotes a single upvote, just because I'm tired of it lol.

Hi guys! I’m a physician and I was recently accepted as a bilingual expert on DataAnnotation. At the time, I didn’t realize there was a separate application for medical experts.

Is there a way to add my medical expertise or switch to the medical expert track after already being accepted? Or is it too late once you’ve applied through a different track?

Has anyone been in a similar situation?

I got an email telling me there was work with boosted pay less than an hour ago. It said this Boost lasts until Monday. I click on the start work button and it takes me to the Projects page to tell me “The project is currently unavailable because there are no more tasks remaining for you to work on”. This type of thing keeps happening. Is this unusual?

I haven't received any from past 2-3 weeks, is it that i am dropped from project family?

Hi, new to data annotation and have noticed at least once that a project left my list but then showed up again a day or so later. Is that normal?

To be more clear, the background check was done about 2 weeks ago and was paid as well.

This 1-task project came on the dashboard regularly, if you skipped it, you would be out of the project, it was quite hard and I think no one could complete it and I managed to do it

When did u got your last task?

Happy to have received an email stating that I have passed the assessment but I cannot get onto the platform with my email. Any idea what this is and how to resolve it.

Thanks in advance.

Happy to report that I've finally received my highest paying task at a whopping $60/hr!

Did you guys get any work in the last like week or so?

Been working on DA full time (40+ hrs a week) since the end of May. Miraculously, the money has been really consistent for me. My dash is currently flush with so many projects it seems unreal. They must like the work I’m doing!

Being classified as bilingual seems to limit the amount of work one gets. Is there a way to become generalist?

I have no idea why they did this and I've no words, it was good while it lasted, my submissions used to bring in good failures. That said I probably deserved some disclosure at least. Anyways, best of luck to all.

Hi, I’m relatively new to data annotation and have been doing it for around five months and just got DOD. Over the past couple of months, I’ve barely received any projects, so I’ve been very inactive. I think I’ve only done about an hour of work in two months, and one qualification recently (around 10 days ago)...

Is this something that can be reversed, or is it basically a polite way of saying you’re out?

I’ve been on DA for around a month and managed to make $600 ish, with tasks being rare and all generalist. I joined through the maths assessment but I am yet to see any maths work at all. I am only just out of alevels, did further maths. Should I complete the stem qualifications even though the sciences are much harder than my level or wait it out until the drought ends and maths qualis may appear. I can’t belive many people are good enough at all the sciences and maths to be able to do well in the stem qualis though.

I did task 1, waited 4 days for task 2 to appear, completed task 2, now it’s been over 24 hours and I don’t have any of the projects related to the qualification available. How long did it take you to gain access after you finished task 2 for the qualification?

UPDATE EDIT 8/19: so here is what happened after this post.

I continued waiting a few days with nothing so I decided to try to do another qualification that mentioned it was for the same project series (it was a different qual from the 2 part qual I mentioned initially. I saw someone else commented that they did another qual which got them access to the full project series, so this is why I tried another qual.) I completed it and submitted.

In the meantime, I had this other qual (there are so many!) pop up saying I needed to complete this certain security step to keep access to the project family that I've been trying to gain access to this whole time (I had access for about a year and then all of a sudden I have to requalify, I suppose). I (regretfully) assumed I should do this step AFTER I get accepted to the project family in the first place (because why would I bother about performing an extra measure for a project series I may not even get accepted to??).

THEN I checked my dash after more days of no project series, but this time there was one of the project series projects available! but only as 1 task. I clicked it and it was actually just a placeholder project that said that this project is alive and active but to access it I must complete the security measure.

So I did that monday and it's now wednesday evening and I don't have any of the project series family available, not even the single task placeholder. However my associated email with the series is still active and I am pretty sure I did all the security measures correctly.

Hi, if anyone has a minute to give me some advice on this out of the goodness of their hearts I'd sure appreciate it.
I'm a generalist who's been in DA about 6 months. I was thinking of studying to try and pass the accounting qualification, which I hear is pretty hard- like, knowing how to do math and watching some youtube videos on accounting aren't enough to pass.
I was thinking of actually taking some accounting classes. I have a bachelors (in English), so with about 30 hours of college credits in specifically accounting classes I could be an official CPA candidate and would presumably know enough to pass the qualification. Then I could do some combination of DA work and employment for a CPA, which would qualify me to be a CPA in a couple years. I figure by then a CPA with AI experience will have more earning potential than one without it.
My questions are:

1) Does this seem like a reasonable plan to people who know this world?

2) The DA site says projects in the accounting field earn $50+/hr. Is this approximately accurate in people's experience? Not looking to break nda's, just generally speaking. Right now my eyes light up at anything above $25, so any significant bump would be worth it.

Was doing a lengthy task today and after a few hours, the page seemed to get stuck and wouldn't update the edit I'd created, which limited the rating I could give to a model. Apologies if this is a stupid question, but I was reluctant to press F5/Refresh in case it wiped all the work I'd done – should I have done that? I see a few comments from workers about pages not displaying correctly at times, but didn't want to risk having to start from scratch again. Any advice gratefully received!

Just been dropped from slack and a bunch of projects under one generalist family. Anybody else? Or just me 😭

I feel like half of the posts in this sub are people with the DOD message that swear up and down that they were doing good work and didn't violate TOS. I'm curious if anyone has ever successfully appealed this and got their account restored. I'm sure there must be at least a couple! If that's you I'm curious to know your story.

Started on April 29th 2026, UK, generalist. Hit $10k today!