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Jeff Whittaker 
United States
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Spanish to English
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Susana Galilea
United States
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| I like my money hard ;) | Oct 4, 2005 |
I remember coming across this website in the past. Kinda makes you wanna scream. It looks entirely bogus, too. Hardly worth a second glance.
Cheers,
Susana Galilea / Accent On Spanish
Accredited Translator, EUTI / UAB
[email protected]
www.accentonspanish.com
[Edited at 2005-1... See more I remember coming across this website in the past. Kinda makes you wanna scream. It looks entirely bogus, too. Hardly worth a second glance.
Cheers,
Susana Galilea / Accent On Spanish
Accredited Translator, EUTI / UAB
[email protected]
www.accentonspanish.com
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Juan Jacob
Mexico
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Average translator makes 80 000 first year.
As I'm not average, how much for me?
Come on!
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Lia Fail (X)
Spain
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| bilingual..... | Oct 4, 2005 |
....loads of babies are bilingual!!!!!!!!!!!!! And obviously can't translate....
there's FAR more to translation than merely being bilingual.......
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Henry Hinds
United States
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In memoriam
That's what they say. Well, mine has always come hard. Nothing wrong with being bilingual, of course. I've raised one, and she knows it is worth someting. But we must demand our worth, for no one is going to just give it to us.
Maybe a day without translators?
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Can Altinbay
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In memoriam | No average testimonials | Oct 4, 2005 |
Did you notice that the people giving testimonials were all BELOW average? One made $70,000 in the first year, one is making "over $5,000 a month"... But the average translator makes $80,000 in the first year, according to the site.
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Marc P (X)
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| One word says it all: | Oct 4, 2005 |
Tacky.
Marc
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PAS
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...they aren't talking about US dollars?
Pawel Skalinski
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You have given my million-dollar secret away!!
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| Some idiot will probably buy it anyway.... | Oct 4, 2005 |
So how long will it take before the first "newbies" come on to Proz and moan "hey guys, I got this product from a particular website and i'm still not getting any work ... moan... moan... moan..."
It even LOOKS crass and dodgy.
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| How pathetic...! | Oct 4, 2005 |
Apart from the ridiculous claims, the site itself looks as cheap and tacky as those websites that tell you to "earn $60,000 a year working from home". It's just a scam to get money out of people.
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Sonja Tomaskovic (X)
Germany
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I have come across this site some time ago, and what I also realized was that these are the same people that created Verbingo.
One translator from this site, actually a very respectable one, said that she was working with these people and had no problems whatsoever. They were professional and respectable themselves.
I always wonder why such people then create something like this. Either they have work with a business consultant who is just somewhat overeager, or they ha... See more I have come across this site some time ago, and what I also realized was that these are the same people that created Verbingo.
One translator from this site, actually a very respectable one, said that she was working with these people and had no problems whatsoever. They were professional and respectable themselves.
I always wonder why such people then create something like this. Either they have work with a business consultant who is just somewhat overeager, or they have bought too many e-books from so-called internet marketing gurus who make you believe you can earn millions over the net. And of course, these gurus have, by selling their e-books for a lot of money... to people like that.
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| The average person doesn't exist... | Oct 4, 2005 |
as our Statistics lecturer wisely warned us many years ago.
Or at any rate, since we're all unique, there's only one of it!
Then he got down to business.
Have a nice, non-average day!
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
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English to Afrikaans
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| What about Tranfree? | Oct 4, 2005 |
I hope it's not related to http://www.translatortips.com/. I've heard quite a few nice things about the Tranfree book, whose catchphrase also include the 80k figure.
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| I saw an advert for "your first translation job, guaranteed" before somewhere | Oct 4, 2005 |
I don't know if it was the same web site or not. I couldn't help wondering what the rate of pay was. Two cents per word? Or is that overestimating it, do you think? Obviously if it is known that the victim has never had a translation job before (because they clicked the link), they are going to be badly taken advantage of.
Astrid
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