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Poll: What do you give most importance to when you receive a job offer?
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Can't Separate The Three Nov 26, 2007

As others have mentioned, the three go together, like leaves on a shamrock.

Other factors, as mentioned, are familiarity with the customer: often one gives priority to a regular customer, even at the expense, perhaps, of a slightly lower rate (one in the hand, two in the bush sort of thing).
 
vixen
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Subject Nov 26, 2007

First thing to consider when receiving a *serious* job offer, is the subject matter. If the subject is not something I can handle confidently, the other consideration factors become irrelevant.

Low-paying jobs are usually not worth considering at all.
 
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subject and client Jan 17, 2008

As pointed out by many, what motivates me most when translating is the subject and the degree of satisfaction obtained from the job.

I am actually quite socially motivated. When I'm forced to choose, I prefer to take a document about the post-war situation in Congo for a (paying) non-profit than a medical translation paying me double. This is my common practice when I'm not absolutely desperate for the extra pennies - which does happen.

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As pointed out by many, what motivates me most when translating is the subject and the degree of satisfaction obtained from the job.

I am actually quite socially motivated. When I'm forced to choose, I prefer to take a document about the post-war situation in Congo for a (paying) non-profit than a medical translation paying me double. This is my common practice when I'm not absolutely desperate for the extra pennies - which does happen.

Coupled with this is the client him/herself. I award priority to my long-standing clients, and those I have a better relationship with: if I am approached simultaneously by a high-paying client who I know little of or with whom personals relationships have proved to be somewhat testing and by another, lower-paying client who I get along really well with and who I enjoy working with, again I would sooner choose the latter.

As I say, this approach means that my financial limits are often put to a test and I can't always do what I'd most like to, but if we're speaking of what we award most importance to and thus our priorities, then the above.


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