Poll: How long have you been working as a freelance translator? Лице кое објавува дискусија: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "How long have you been working as a freelance translator?".
This poll was originally submitted by Bruno Depascale. View the poll results »
| | | | Muriel Vasconcellos (X) 
Соединети Американски Држави
Local time: 19:56
шпански на англиски
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Plus 22 years as an in-house translator.
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Plus 20 years as an in-house translator. Almost the same as Muriel...
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And still going strong but a tad worn and frayed around the edges 
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Mario Chavez (X)
Local time: 22:56
англиски на шпански
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| How long part deux | Nov 22, 2015 |
I've seen this poll before. I've been working for about 25 years.
A more interesting question: What were you doing before you turned translator?
| | | | | Life before turning translator | Nov 22, 2015 |
Excellent point Mario. I studied and worked in agriculture, then decided to change direction. Obviously this previous professional experience influences the type of translation I am interested in doing.
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Hi everybody and thank you for your participation in this poll.
I posted this question for a simple fact: I see that many LSP post jobs here on proz with extremely low rates and a big number of translators offer their services at such rates.
So, I just wanted to know if such translators were beginners or not.
From what emerges from this poll, the beginners are less than 2,5% of the total.
Do you think this percentage reflects the real world or not? From my point of vi... See more Hi everybody and thank you for your participation in this poll.
I posted this question for a simple fact: I see that many LSP post jobs here on proz with extremely low rates and a big number of translators offer their services at such rates.
So, I just wanted to know if such translators were beginners or not.
From what emerges from this poll, the beginners are less than 2,5% of the total.
Do you think this percentage reflects the real world or not? From my point of view such percentage should be bigger.. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | I agree with you | Nov 22, 2015 |
Bruno Depascale wrote:
Hi everybody and thank you for your participation in this poll.
I posted this question for a simple fact: I see that many LSP post jobs here on proz with extremely low rates and a big number of translators offer their services at such rates.
So, I just wanted to know if such translators were beginners or not.
From what emerges from this poll, the beginners are less than 2,5% of the total.
Do you think this percentage reflects the real world or not? From my point of view such percentage should be bigger..
A simple answer might be that they don't necessarily answer the poll.
Another answer might be the old say:"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
I bet we'll never know the real answer...
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Mario Freitas
Бразил
Local time: 23:56
англиски на португалски
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| 28 years and 28 to go | Nov 22, 2015 |
Bruno Depascale wrote:
I posted this question for a simple fact: I see that many LSP post jobs here on proz with extremely low rates and a big number of translators offer their services at such rates.
So, I just wanted to know if such translators were beginners or not.
Bruno, you can be sure people who accept those rates are beginners. And there are lots of them, since there are lots of such offers all the time. We must live with it. After all, we did the same when we started, didn't we?
Mario Chavez wrote:
I've seen this poll before. I've been working for about 25 years.
A more interesting question: What were you doing before you turned translator?
I graduated in Accounting and never worked as such. I worked in-house as Admin Manager and Project Manager for 20 years, but always kept translation as my second job. As of 2002, the translations started to grow and take the place of the managing jobs. In 2008, I finally worked in-house as a translator/project manager, and ever since, I consider translation as my preferred profession. In 2013, I gave up managing, in-house jobs, bosses and working hours for good. Never want it back.
[Edited at 2015-11-22 22:30 GMT]
| | | | Kristina Cosumano (X)
Германија
Local time: 04:56
германски на англиски
From what emerges from this poll, the beginners are less than 2,5% of the total.
I'm one of those who have worked in professional translation for less than one year. By reading these fora, one learns quickly that settling for bottom prices is not the answer.
The actual answer, however, continues to elude.
| | | | Zhihua Liu
Кина
Local time: 10:56
англиски на кинески
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Well, in university I studied linguistics and literature. After graduation, I worked in an airport bank for a few years, servicing foreign clients, those simple, good old days.
Then, more and more training courses to take, more and more meaningless yet strict regulations to follow, in the end, I quit and became a freelance translator.
Also, I should say I began at a low rate as at that time translation was just a means of keeping linguistic competence, but soon after I became a freel... See more Well, in university I studied linguistics and literature. After graduation, I worked in an airport bank for a few years, servicing foreign clients, those simple, good old days.
Then, more and more training courses to take, more and more meaningless yet strict regulations to follow, in the end, I quit and became a freelance translator.
Also, I should say I began at a low rate as at that time translation was just a means of keeping linguistic competence, but soon after I became a freelancer, I never accept low rates. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Muriel Vasconcellos (X)
Соединети Американски Држави
Local time: 19:56
шпански на англиски
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| I worked as a secretary first | Nov 23, 2015 |
I was working in an international organization and took the test for an internal promotion to a job as editor/translator. The senior translators gently trained me and turned me into a pro. By the time I went freelance, I already had well-paying clients, so I never had to struggle with the issue of low rates.
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