Poll: In how many fields do you regularly work? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "In how many fields do you regularly work?".
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| | | | Tim Drayton 
Cyprus
Local time: 13:28
Turkish to English
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| Define field, please. | Feb 9, 2009 |
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| | | | Interlangue (X)
Angola
Local time: 12:28
English to French
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What is regularly? Today? This week? This month? this year?
| | | | Kristina Radziulyte
Lithuania
Local time: 13:28
Member (2006)
English to Lithuanian
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abdurrahman
United Arab Emirates
Local time: 14:28
English to Arabic
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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: 12:28
Spanish to English
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| 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: 13:28
Russian to German
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| 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: 12:28
Member (2006)
Russian to Hungarian
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