Poll: Is business slow at the moment? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Business was definitely slow two days ago. But then yesterday, I was absolutely flooded with new jobs, requests and desperate pleas , and today has been very hectic as well.
| | | | | Getting better | Feb 1, 2008 |
Actually it's getting better recently, after very slow December and beginning of January
Anni
| | | | | Steady or even better | Feb 1, 2008 |
For quite some years, January and February used to be very calm months, but the last 2-3 years the beginning of the year has had almost as high pace as in December. Also, we have never noticed any severe affects from downswings in the global business.
Erik
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Anabel Martínez 
Spain
Local time: 13:36
Member (2005)
English to Spanish
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| Bad timing for the poll, maybe | Feb 1, 2008 |
If they had asked me a couple of days ago, I would have said it was pretty slow, but suddenly I'm very busy again, I see I'm not the only one!
| | | | | It's Friday afternoon - of course it's busy | Feb 1, 2008 |
This morning was delightfully calm but now it's Friday afternoon and, comme d'habitude, I am being bombarded with offers of work - heigh ho ...
January was busier than usual for me.
Regards,
Jenny
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Brazil
Local time: 08:36
English to Portuguese
| Don’t take me bad, today it’s carnival... | Feb 1, 2008 |
Não me leve a mal, hoje é carnaval...
Here in Brazil Carnival starts today, or tomorrow, whatever. The thing is that specially here in Rio de Janeiro, Carnival started about a month ago, just that these days it gets bigger. Tuesday and half of the Wednesday are holidays, and Saturday no one will work too. So, right now I have to anticipate all the work - which is a lot. While there are already a lot of people in the streets enjoying... See more Não me leve a mal, hoje é carnaval...
Here in Brazil Carnival starts today, or tomorrow, whatever. The thing is that specially here in Rio de Janeiro, Carnival started about a month ago, just that these days it gets bigger. Tuesday and half of the Wednesday are holidays, and Saturday no one will work too. So, right now I have to anticipate all the work - which is a lot. While there are already a lot of people in the streets enjoying :/
(Well, it worth the trouble - I still have Saturday, Sunday and so on ) ▲ Collapse
| | | | janen
Local time: 23:36
Spanish to English
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| Writing to clients | Feb 1, 2008 |
I have had an unusually quiet couple of weeks, with just odds and ends. I have a largish job now, but I obtained it by writing to a client I hadn't heard from for a while asking if they had anything for me. I don't often need to do that.
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November and December were unusually slow - but here I am having to refuse jobs I otherwise would have loved to work on. I even have to refuse some of my best clients' requests, which is making me angry.
I feel like asking them all: Where were YOU in November?!
| | | | | Maddest week ever.. | Feb 1, 2008 |
Turned down a lot of things I would have liked to do.
And to my great shame - a job that I HAD promised to do had gotten completely lost.
Just finished a huge job, and starting another one, which looks very interesting. I am only a part time translator, so a lot of the translating I do teaches me a lot (and brings me up to date) on a lot of useful stuff
| | | | Claire Cox
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:36
French to English
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| From the sublime to the ridiculous | Feb 2, 2008 |
I suggested this poll at the beginning of the week after a pretty slow January - my quietest month in ages. But, typically, work has picked up this week and today I'm back to my usual situation of turning work down. Just goes to show we should make the most of the quiet times when they arise, but it's never quite that easy....
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