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Riley Willis sits behind his keyboard for 30 hours a week. When that time outside Saturday, he did it through all his shifts without talking to a soul.

Willis is a contractor of him, working on data marking through a company called Dataannotation.tech. He says his work is completely remote and works asynchronously – without any firm chief, without contact with collaborators and without daily meetings.

“It''s perfect for an introvert,” he told Business Insider.

Willis said his days consist of “controlling facts” production of different AI-but only because this is what he chooses to take over. He says Dataannotation.tech offers a variety of projects for contract workers to choose, including teaching and improving his creative writing and coding skills.

“You are literally passing and labeled information based on a series of criteria that differ between projects,” Willis said. “I personally work on many factual things, just because I just find that the ratio of salary-attempt is beautiful. So there are many answers to fact control, making sure that models do not lie or halogue information.”

As companies continue push to improve their patterns of hethere was a relevant incentive of request for The data and data labels. Workers in this area spend their time or “generating training and labeling data for training,” Willis said, completing tasks in programming, writing and research.

Willis said he had been withdrawn for the first time when he was looking to leave his parents' home and wanted to avoid a role in the retail.

“I wanted a job that wasn't the service to the customer or something like that,” he said. “I was already doing remote school, so I was already comfortable with the distant environment.”

When he first on board, Willis said he was making $ 20 an hour, but now we are westing about $ 25. Schedule rates vary depending on the projects that employees take over, and Willis said he has seen them reach up to $ 30.

Although he has not undertaken a full-time workload, Willis, who is following a computer science through the Florida University's online program, said he is able to fully cover his expenses-including education and rent In Raleigh, North Carolina.

“I can pay rent and can pay my way through college,” Willis said. “It's not like I have a lot of money to spend money in the end, especially if I'm not working 40 hours full -time things, but I have enough to live in general.”

Willis said that his way of life saved is what allows him to extend his salary, adding that he “could not support himself” if he would live alone.

“I live poor, honestly,” he said. “If I had an extravagant lifestyle – if I were going out, you know, bars and everything, and I would spend a lot online – I probably couldn't do it. But just by passing my day, this fully covers it. “

Work has its shortcomings. Willis said the repeated nature of the tasks could be “numb minds”. And unlike a full -time position, Willis is paid only for the time he is sitting on his computer, actively working on tasks.

“Even in a high pace job, I feel like, you know, there are paid vacations for lunch, such things,” he said. “Or, you know, you spend a second or two talking to someone, but you are still in the hour being paid. With that, you really are not paying if you are not doing the job.”

Willis said he sometimes spends “six or seven hours” in research, but is only paid for “five hours of current work” due to the need to pause occasionally. Despite – Willis said that the benefits of work transcend the bad.

“I will personally say that the balance of work and life is beautiful, in the sense that, of course, it is distant and I can work whenever I want,” he said. “I can work at 1am if I really feel like her.”

For someone who is looking for a sidehill to introduce their full -time role, Willis says working to train it can be a better general adaptation.

“I think this would be really, really good for someone who has a current job and is doing it like two hours a day,” he said. “I think this is really what this kind of configuration shines. If you have a full -time current job, and just add an extra hour, half hours, one day, earning an additional $ 25 to $ 50 in Day, only when you have nothing else to do, it is definitely possible. “