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| Poll: At least 60% of freelancers say they started freelancing by choice. Are you one of them? ( 1, 2, 3... 4) | 45
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| Poll: Do you think it is important to work with more than one CAT tool to get more work? ( 1... 2) | 18
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| Poll: Do you apply higher rates for urgent/weekend work? ( 1... 2) | 17
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| Poll: To how many countries have you traveled? ( 1... 2) | 22
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| Poll: How much of your income are you able to put into savings? | 11
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| Poll: Have you experienced payment-related issues when using a client's translation management system? ( 1... 2) | 18
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| Poll: A reasonable cost for errors and omissions, liability and personal property loss insurance: ( 1... 2) | 15
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| Poll: In your opinion, which is the ideal age to become a freelance translator? | 14
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| Poll: Do you ever think in your source language(s)? | 13
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| Poll: Have you ever taken a vacation lasting longer than a month? | 14
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| Poll: If you had the choice, when booking a service, which would you prefer? | 4
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| Poll: Has it ever taken you a few months or even a year to send in an invoice? ( 1... 2) | 18
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| Poll: Do you feel some reviewers make changes to translations "just to change something"? ( 1... 2) | 17
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| Poll: Your client pays you twice for the same job. What do you do? ( 1, 2... 3) | 30
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| Poll: Has GDPR changed the way you do business? | 11
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| Poll: How booked up are you for the coming month? | 13
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| Poll: Have you ever translated the same sentence the same way for two different clients? ( 1... 2) | 18
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| Poll: Do you catch yourself paraphrasing sentences when reading a text in your source language(s)? | 7
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| Poll: Have you ever been asked to edit/proofread a text which you translated for different client? | 8
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| Poll: Have you ever mixed up the deadlines for different projects? | 9
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| Poll: Do you think your translation speed has improved over the last three years? | 12
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| Poll: How much of your translation-related research involves Wikipedia? ( 1... 2) | 15
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| Poll: My favorite dictionary is: | 7
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| Poll: Do you engage in small talk with some of your clients? | 11
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| Poll: Most of the texts you translate belong to... ( 1... 2) | 16
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| Poll: You accept a new client's job, and then find they have poor feedback from previous translators. You: ( 1... 2) | 17
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| Poll: In general, how long between submitting your quote on a job and the start of work on that job? ( 1... 2) | 19
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| Poll: As a freelancer, I'm going to… | 2
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| Poll: I consider most fellow translators to be: | 9
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| Poll: How do you usually unwind and keep fresh for work? | 12
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| Poll: How have your rates changed over the past 5 years? | 6
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| Poll: If you had to work from an office on a desert island which one of the following would you take? | 14
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| Poll: Which of these two do you prefer to make up your income? | 14
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| Poll: Have you ever refused to take on a project because of the payment method? | 13
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| Poll: If money were no object, would you still translate for fun? ( 1... 2) | 20
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| Poll: When we colonize the moon or Mars, how soon will we need to send translators and interpreters? ( 1... 2) | 27
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| Poll: On a scale of 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest), how happy are you at work in general? | 8
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| Poll: Which of these most distinguishes you from others working in your language pair? | 13
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| Poll: Do you ever follow up with clients who have not contacted you for work in a while? | 9
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| Poll: Would you say your current clients are also your ideal clients? | 4
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| Poll: Are you using DeepL or DeepL Pro? | 7
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| Poll: Who runs your household? | 8
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| Poll: In which of these are you most interested? | 4
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| Poll: Do you consider the country you are currently living as your home? ( 1... 2) | 22
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| Poll: I've been working with my biggest client for: | 12
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| Poll: Which of these best describes you in your professional dealings? ( 1... 2) | 15
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| Poll: What motivates you the most? ( 1... 2) | 15
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| Poll: Which of these professions do you think has the most parallels with translation? ( 1... 2) | 20
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| Poll: How would you describe your performance in school? | 10
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