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| Poll: Worst phobia afflicting language professionals? ( 1... 2) | 21
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| Poll: Do you have some skills that "go to waste" as a freelance translator/interpreter? | 9
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| Poll: When a client is dissatisfied, I can usually correct the problem to their satisfaction. | 5
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| Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work? | 9
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| Poll: Does your work volume increase or decrease around this time of year? | 9
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| Poll: On a scale of 1 to 5, how would you rate your work-life balance? | 12
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| Poll: Do you think you offer better value than average in your language pair? ( 1... 2) | 21
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| Poll: Would you recommend any books on freelance translation to beginners? | 13
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| Poll: Have you suffered from burnout this year? | 8
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| Poll: Is getting started as a freelancer more difficult than in other jobs? | 12
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| Poll: Work-wise, has 2017 been better, or worse, than 2016? | 10
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| Poll: How many fingers do you use for typing? ( 1, 2... 3) | 30
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| Poll: Do you think today, in the Internet age, it is necessary to have business cards? ( 1... 2) | 17
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| Poll: Are you currently living outside the country in which you were born? ( 1... 2) | 17
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| Poll: Approximately what percentage of the first draft of your translations makes it to the end unchanged? ( 1... 2) | 19
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| Poll: Have you studied the semantic and/or syntactic differences between your source and target languages? | 10
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| Poll: Have you ever seen one of your old translations and been shocked at how bad it was? | 7
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| Poll: Has LinkedIn proved useful to you in getting work? ( 1... 2) | 18
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| Poll: Which of these traits is most important to a good translator/interpreter? ( 1... 2) | 18
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| Poll: Has Facebook proved useful to you in getting work? | 9
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| Poll: Have contacts you made at powwows or other translator gatherings led to work? | 7
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| Poll: In the Venn diagram of quality, price and speed, where would you place yourself? | 13
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| Poll: Would you work on a project that is specifically aimed at improving machine translation? | 14
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| Poll: How many clients have you had to "fire"? | 12
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| Poll: Have you ever been overly confident of your translation abilities? | 6
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| Poll: Is there a field you would like to specialize in that you are not already? ( 1... 2) | 17
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| Poll: Has your location ever worked against you as a freelancer? ( 1... 2) | 22
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| Poll: The most important meal in a freelancer's day is... | 8
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| Poll: Do you consider yourself a "digital nomad'? ( 1... 2) | 15
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| Poll: How ill would you need to be to push back a deadline? ( 1, 2... 3) | 32
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| Poll: Do you take part in a continuing education/development program? | 11
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| Poll: Do you think people who work at home tend to pay less attention to personal hygiene than others? ( 1... 2) | 18
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| Poll: "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." Is this true for translation? | 10
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| Poll: Do you consider yourself well-informed on the latest in translation and the industry? ( 1... 2) | 16
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| Poll: Do you eat at your desk? | 10
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| Poll: My last work-related software upgrade was... | 4
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