Poll: In how many fields do you regularly work? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Tim Drayton Cyprus Local time: 17:27 Turkish to English + ... Define field, please. | Feb 9, 2009 |
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Interlangue (X) Angola Local time: 16:27 English to French + ...
What is regularly? Today? This week? This month? this year? | | |
Kristina Radziulyte Lithuania Local time: 17:27 Member (2006) English to Lithuanian + ... MODERATOR
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abdurrahman United Arab Emirates Local time: 18:27 English to Arabic + ...
Dear Colleagues, I'm specialized in legal docs but I'm working in more than 4 fields. Have a nice translation. | | |
What is a field? | Feb 9, 2009 |
Interlangue wrote: What is regularly? Today? This week? This month? this year? What is a field? I am a mechanical engineer, and I translate about engineering, but what is a field? Mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering? | | |
Some jobs cover at least two fields | Feb 9, 2009 |
... Like the Executive Order I translated last week, which was both law and medicine with a sprinkling of IT terminology... Or lots of marketing jobs, which may be anything from technology to Education as well. Beware of contracts, which are offiically law, but sometimes involve a lot of other things like maintenance technology as well. I voted >4, and I am surprised that comparatively few others have done the same. The little surprises are one... See more ... Like the Executive Order I translated last week, which was both law and medicine with a sprinkling of IT terminology... Or lots of marketing jobs, which may be anything from technology to Education as well. Beware of contracts, which are offiically law, but sometimes involve a lot of other things like maintenance technology as well. I voted >4, and I am surprised that comparatively few others have done the same. The little surprises are one of the things I like about this job! ▲ Collapse | | |
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I regularly work in 4 fields: computer (70% software, 30% hardware), games (40% console games, 40% PC games, 20% mobile and other games), travel & tourism and websites (with their many subfields...) | | |
Parrot Spain Local time: 16:27 Spanish to English + ... I take it... | Feb 10, 2009 |
This has to do with the distinction between "specialist" and "working" fields in the profiles? If so, both survey results are eminently flawed unless clarified (or seen together). | | |
Max Chernov Russian Federation Local time: 17:27 Russian to German + ... Regularly I work in more than 5 fields... | Feb 10, 2009 |
...It can be personal documents, contracts, medical translations (too divers...), technic, computer software (articles for a famous computer magazine), different equipment etc. Generally I prefer, when my customers give me texts from different fields, so can I not so fast become bored. I expect from my customers this variety... | | |
Erzsébet Czopyk Hungary Local time: 16:27 Member (2006) Russian to Hungarian + ... SITE LOCALIZER |