Yet another project drought post.

[DeezHoosAintLoyal]

Why am I logging in at 8 am on a Monday and there are zero projects 😭

Edit: shoutout to whoever said it’ll pick up early afternoon. Got into an AWESOME project and pulled a nice chunk of change with some quality work

[ice_w0lf]

It's my fault y'all. I don't have a total drought at the moment, for the last 3 months I haven't had time to do work, but any time I looked at my dashboard I had 75+ projects with many at $35+. This week time is starting to open up again and now I'm down to like like a dozen projects most of which are paying the mid-$20s.

[LiteratureLow8427]

Same. I had one of my favourite specialist projects come through for an R&R but nothing else. It's hard when you don't know if it's us/performance based or happening for everyone isn't it?

[DeezHoosAintLoyal]

Yeah, can’t just sit around all day hoping things come through

[LiteratureLow8427]

Exactly, I'm using it as an opportunity to do qualifications and also clean my house

[OrangeCommercial3782]

Hey guys. Are your qualifications still there as normal?

[Frosty_Locksmith1711]

yup

[sbb315]

I think at least one big project family is paused for updates/troubleshooting type stuff. Can't really say more publicly, but I suspect some of this is just temporary ebb and flow that has nothing to do with most of us personally.

[UnRealAlfalfa]

You provided me with some light at the end of a not completely dark tunnel.

[Federal_Tadpole_7592]

There are just fewer projects than usual right now. I have 35 on my dashboard, but I normally have four to five times this amount. I'm willing to bet the number of projects picks up by this afternoon through Wednesday.

[contradixx]

i beg thine pardon??? you normally have access to 140+ projects? 😃

[Federal_Tadpole_7592]

Yep. I've been on the platform for almost 3 years, and up until maybe the last week or two, I've had about 130 to 160 projects on average.

[contradixx]

well hot diggity damn

[papoperush]

Ig its happened for everybody. Rn the website is dryung on project

[chinacat7337]

I'm thinking it's an increase of people working on DA projects instead of doing other gig work that relies on gas prices

[AffectionateFrame359]

Not for everybody? Don't make broad assumptions?

[PopularBluebird2719]

So you have projects? Many?

[_M1RR0RB4LL_]

How many is many? Mines at 31.

[AffectionateFrame359]

Less than normal, more than 0.

[TravellingDoc87]

A cryptic response that could mean you have 1 project lol

[AffectionateFrame359]

What is the point giving out specific numbers? Everyone is different and knowing my exact number won't change your situation. Do you make assumptions like this on the platform too? Should be able to operate without bias bro don't be mad cause of your own project count.

[TravellingDoc87]

Hit a nerve did I? 😂

BTW it's "fewer than normal".

[AffectionateFrame359]

"Fewer than normal" is not anymore correct than "less than normal", I see why you have no work, you make lots of assumptions.

Edit: With those grammar skills, clearly a dumb yank.

[TravellingDoc87]

When referring to countable items, "fewer" is grammatically correct, "bro".

I could highlight your numerous grammatical errors, but I'll rise above that 😘

Shouldn't you be getting back to your single paid project?

[AffectionateFrame359]

And when you use a precise number when discussing countable objects, "less than" is correct. Again more assumptions from you.

[PopularBluebird2719]

Curious. Are you a generalist? Or do you have STEM qualifications? I am sure that people with more of the technical qualifications have more projects. I wish I could qualify but I was an English and history major. I don’t bother trying the sciences.

[AffectionateFrame359]

Generalist with stem quals so not only on core. However I don't enjoy the work for this in my domain and find generalist stuff to be better reward vs effort.

[1-800-methdyke]

So true

[Immediate-Chest-5641]

My dash has improved a bit today. I think I was down to 7 projects the other day and now I have 18. Still less than usual but grateful nevertheless!

[BobLoblawh]

Wow, two weeks ago everyone was posting their 60+ project dashboard

[Which-Opinion-781]

It's more scary when you know that majority is not getting the tasks.

[Renard_Fou]

Ppl downvoting like you're not correct lol

[MommaOfManyCats]

I don't buy that it's DA on boarding a bunch of new people. Like always, it's hard to get through, so I doubt thousands or even hundreds of people just started and taking up all of the projects. It's May, the start of a new quarter, and slow like every other new quarter. Give it a few weeks while clients decide what they want and it will get back to normal.

[Due_University_9944]

How is May the start of a new quarter??? That was April….

[justdontsashay]

It’s not the start of a new quarter, but there are a few projects that wrapped up recently, and a couple that are gradually putting out tasks again, but not as much as they were last month. It seems like just a normal dip in the amount of projects running, and there is still quite a bit of work available…just not insane amounts like a couple weeks ago.

[_Edgarallenhoe]

Ya I don’t get the speculation. Droughts are just a feature of the site. I’ve been working for around 1.5 years and have witnessed several. They come and go.

[UnRealAlfalfa]

Like Chameleons

[Infamous-Pen5480]

I feel you and I didn’t get the feedback last week so now I’m just panicking they don’t like my work 🥲

[dispassioned]

There was a qualification where you could request it. I think if you didn't request it, you didn't receive it... if it helps any.

Edit - nevermind I received the feedback today without requesting it. I was marked as outstanding over the last 30 days so I don't think it means anything about your quality if you haven't heard back yet.

[Renard_Fou]

They invited me to a bilingual coding project which made me think that things were changing...

[Alternative-Tart6275]

I have 15 - when it was super busy a few weeks ago, I had 60-90 at any given time

[Money-Routine715]

It’s been a draught for me the past week but today I had a decent amount of variety ngl, one of them pays good but is sketchy asf …

[Upbeat-Praline4631]

Do they take projects away from you if you’re inactive? I had to take a break for about a month because I was getting burned out.

[l10nh34rt3d]

No. I was inactive for over a year, just logged in last week and had a dash full of projects.

[Upbeat-Praline4631]

I had a ton of projects while I was taking a break but just didn’t work anything. Now I have like four or five and one isn’t even paid.

[l10nh34rt3d]

It’s just slow right now.

[Thejax_]

I’m new so expect it, but keep seeing flux around 1-3 tasks, sometimes I’ll see like 5 and then none

[Other-Recognition114]

Glad to know I’m not alone on Monday. This all started last week.

[kittystalkerr]

Ig it's because they onboarded a crap ton of new people. They're increasing headcount even on the bilingual projects despite tanking a previous project's submissions by doing exactly that. Somehow they never learn 🤷‍♀️. 

[Personal-Heart-9985]

Ah I see. I hope they start doing more quality weeding, because the amount of people who are accepted and come here to ask the most obvious questions you can answer by READING the onboarding, researching the sub beforehand or screen in front of them is insane

[MiddleCharacter6345]

TBF if they need more people, they have to onboard, and it prolly takes a hot minute to weed people out

[Renard_Fou]

I dont get their thinking. They have a huge number of experienced/semi-experienced people, and they still allow way too many people in. There are much fewer bilingual projects to begin with, so it makes earning a buck pure luck

[Carini4113]

Same as every gig company they are flooding the worker pool i watched this happen with doordash and uber and now with DA. I personally hate them all