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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "What percentage of your income comes from language-related services?".
This poll was originally submitted by Hilde Granlund
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A forum topic will appear each time a new poll is... See more This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "What percentage of your income comes from language-related services?".
This poll was originally submitted by Hilde Granlund
View the poll here
A forum topic will appear each time a new poll is run. For more information, see: http://proz.com/topic/33629 ▲ Collapse
| | | | | What does "language-related" mean exactly? | Sep 6, 2007 |
We are a translation team and only offer translation and related work (editing, multilingual DTP...), hence I reckon that ALL our income comes from "language-related services"?
| | | | | All of my income comes from translation | Sep 6, 2007 |
My one and only profession and income source is translation and related work. So all of income comes from this single-source.
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As we are both translators we work together as a team and provide translation and DTP language-related services. We occasionally provide interpretation services.
Have a nice day!
Letty
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| Hmm, I wonder.... | Sep 6, 2007 |
Hi Hilde,
Did/Do you have something specially in mind here when posing such a question to such an overwhelmingly "language-related group"?
As an English teacher and a translator, I can't see any of my income coming from anything else. But it will be interesting to see what comes out of this posting.
Cheers!
Bill
| | | | | 100% definitely | Sep 6, 2007 |
I work as a full-time freelance translator so as you can imagine my income depends on the translations I do.
Regards,
Fernando
| | | | | 100% thanks God! | Sep 6, 2007 |
I can’t imagine doing something else that is not related to languages. I love languages, my profession and translating!
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The poll was edited a bit by the site.
I thought it might be interesting to see how many people in here are full time translators, and how many are not. (The language -related bit was not my idea...)
For myself - I work full time at another job, but I am getting an increasing amount of translating requests since joining proz.
[Edited at 2007-09-06 21:50]
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Ricardo Pereira 
Portugal
Local time: 01:59
Member (2006)
English to Portuguese
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| I would say around 95 to 99% | Sep 6, 2007 |
I also have a rock covers band. It is more like a hobby.. but it surely pays off. A gig or two every weekend is enough to cover my music related expenses and my monthly fuel expenses as well.
It's kind of "my pocket money provider".
The rest is strictly language related.
| | | | Claire Cox
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:59
French to English
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Hmmm, well, I am a full-time translator, but not all my income comes from my work, as I also receive maintenance payments from my ex-husband to keep my children in the house and style to which they've become accustomed! Not sure how you can categorise that. The way the question was phrased meant that I could only answer 50 to 75%...
[Edited at 2007-09-07 08:23]
| | | | Hipyan Nopri
Indonesia
Local time: 07:59
Member (2005)
English to Indonesian
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| 100% from Translation | Sep 6, 2007 |
I work full time as a freelance translator. I am in front of my PC every day from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm seven days a week. Thus, the only source of my income is translation.
[Edited at 2007-09-06 22:36]
| | | | | Thanks, Hilde, for the reply! | Sep 6, 2007 |
Hilde Granlund wrote:
The poll was edited a bit by the site.
I thought it might be interesting to see how many people in here are full time translators, and how many are not. (The language -related bit was not my idea...)
For myself - I work full time at another job, but I am getting an increasing amount of translating requests since joining proz.
Fair enough! Takk skal du ha, og lykke til med to jobber!
Bill
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| All Language Related, With Some Variation | Sep 7, 2007 |
I work as a professional writer and journalist, a translator of Spanish and French into English, and a tutor to high school Spanish and French students.
I love all my professional endeavors equally.
I also work 7 days a week, especially since I think it's a good idea to pace myself so that I don't get burned out.
I find having a variety of language related work also helps me from getting burned out.
For me, its a good idea to make sure that I d... See more I work as a professional writer and journalist, a translator of Spanish and French into English, and a tutor to high school Spanish and French students.
I love all my professional endeavors equally.
I also work 7 days a week, especially since I think it's a good idea to pace myself so that I don't get burned out.
I find having a variety of language related work also helps me from getting burned out.
For me, its a good idea to make sure that I do not become too glued to the computer screen. Being around other people is important to me, too.
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| | | | Juan Jacob
Mexico
Local time: 18:59
French to Spanish
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95 % script translation, translation for subtitling and subtitling, 5 % French voice-over.
Language-related services, indeed. Not typical, but yes.
| | | | | Translation and classes | Sep 7, 2007 |
I answered 100% since I do translations and also teach.
My other jobs, taking my mother to do some errands, picking up my nephew and niece from school, and so on....are not paid.
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