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| User | Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff Poll: After completing a difficult and long assignment, how do you feel? |
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dsd-sl
Italy
Local time: 00:00
 Member (2011)
German to Italian
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I find that the more simple the questions, the more revealing the results.
A picture of us translators can be drawn using the sometimes surprising answers to these very simple polls, much more than from ambitous blogs or articles. IMHO.
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humbird
United States
Local time: 15:00
Member (2004)
English to Japanese
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| | No specific feeling | Jan 2 |
Job performed, and completed as a professional would/should/could do.
That's it. Of course a little compliment from the client is a plus, but that's also a part of the professional process.
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Henny Willis 
United States
Local time: 17:00
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English to Indonesian
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definately the main feeling!
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Marlene Blanshay
Canada
Local time: 18:00
Member (2009)
French to English
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The two weeks before xmas i was really busy and had a few assignments like that. I was totally fried when it was all done and part of me just wanted to do nothing but watch mindless tv but i also just wanted to get out of the house and get to the gym, go drinking or shopping!
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Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 15:00
Member (2003)
Spanish to English
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With long projects, which is what I mostly do, I often stay up through the night before the delivery date making sure I've covered all the bases. I get compulsive--and my extra vigilance is almost always rewarded. But I'm getting old for these all-nighters, and I don't feel good for 24 to 36 hours afterward.
As for relief, I usually have another job waiting in the wings.
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 00:00
Member (2007)
Spanish to English
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Simon Bruni wrote:
Mario Chavez wrote:
For a portal devoted to translation, Proz polls come across as quite limited in scope and imagination. |
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You are free to suggest less limited and more imaginative poll questions. You are also free to ignore the polls if they annoy you. |
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Hear hear, and a happy new year!
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Odile Stuart
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:00
Member (2006)
English to French
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For me it's a mixture of elation and tiredness; good deserved tiredness that makes enjoying myself more rewarding somehow.
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Suzan Hamer
Netherlands
Local time: 00:00
Member (2007)
English
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Glad it's done, but looking forward to the next one...
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Alena Hrybouskaya
Italy
Local time: 00:00
Member (2010)
English to Russian
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relieved and wondering what the next job is going to be like
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Power Translate
Germany
Local time: 00:00
English to German
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| | relieved and anxious | Jan 6 |
When I finally get it done and hit the send button on my email client, I usually feel relieved but then I get anxious because there are so many things that can go wrong with a long and difficult translation assignment. If everything stays calm, especially after there has been a query, I get calmer as well and as soon as the payment arrives I can put it out of my mind.
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