| Topic | Poster Replies (Views) Latest post |
 | Poll: Who do you prefer working for? | 12 (874) |
 | Poll: Should a freelancer observe their local holidays? | 12 (1,022) |
 | Poll: Have you done a translation of a language you can't speak with an automatic translator? ( 1... 2) | 21 (1,488) |
 | Poll: Worst phobia afflicting language professionals? ( 1... 2) | 21 (1,645) |
 | Poll: Do you accept Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as payment? | 10 (986) |
 | Poll: Do you have professional goals for the coming year? | 7 (746) |
 | Poll: Do you have some skills that "go to waste" as a freelance translator/interpreter? | 9 (937) |
 | Poll: When a client is dissatisfied, I can usually correct the problem to their satisfaction. | 5 (712) |
 | Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work? | 9 (848) |
 | Poll: Does your work volume increase or decrease around this time of year? | 9 (801) |
 | Poll: On a scale of 1 to 5, how would you rate your work-life balance? | 12 (1,477) |
 | Poll: Do you think you offer better value than average in your language pair? ( 1... 2) | 21 (1,475) |
 | Poll: Would you recommend any books on freelance translation to beginners? | 13 (1,201) |
 | Poll: Have you suffered from burnout this year? | 8 (775) |
 | Poll: Is getting started as a freelancer more difficult than in other jobs? | 12 (868) |
 | Poll: Work-wise, has 2017 been better, or worse, than 2016? | 10 (861) |
 | Poll: How many fingers do you use for typing? ( 1, 2... 3) | 30 (2,544) |
 | Poll: Do you think today, in the Internet age, it is necessary to have business cards? ( 1... 2) | 17 (2,235) |
 | Poll: Are you currently living outside the country in which you were born? ( 1... 2) | 17 (1,205) |
 | Poll: Approximately what percentage of the first draft of your translations makes it to the end unchanged? ( 1... 2) | 19 (1,375) |
 | Poll: Have you studied the semantic and/or syntactic differences between your source and target languages? | 10 (976) |
 | Poll: Have you ever seen one of your old translations and been shocked at how bad it was? | 7 (716) |
 | Poll: Has LinkedIn proved useful to you in getting work? ( 1... 2) | 18 (1,810) |
 | Poll: Which of these traits is most important to a good translator/interpreter? ( 1... 2) | 18 (1,406) |
 | Poll: Has Facebook proved useful to you in getting work? | 9 (868) |
 | Poll: Have contacts you made at powwows or other translator gatherings led to work? | 7 (786) |
 | Poll: In the Venn diagram of quality, price and speed, where would you place yourself? | 13 (1,031) |
 | Poll: Would you work on a project that is specifically aimed at improving machine translation? | 14 (945) |
 | Poll: Have you ever received a complaint about the quality of your work from a client? ( 1... 2) | 16 (1,910) |
 | Poll: Negative feedback from a client is just a chance to improve my services: ( 1... 2) | 16 (1,517) |
 | Poll: Do you ever worry about carpal tunnel syndrome? ( 1... 2) | 17 (1,285) |
 | Poll: What kind of payment issue do you most often encounter? | 11 (881) |
 | Poll: In which currency do you prefer to be paid? | 4 (769) |
 | Poll: How much non-work time do you spend on the internet? | 8 (784) |
 | Poll: How many clients have you had to "fire"? | 12 (877) |
 | Poll: Have you ever been overly confident of your translation abilities? | 6 (795) |
 | Poll: Is there a field you would like to specialize in that you are not already? ( 1... 2) | 17 (1,416) |
 | Poll: Has your location ever worked against you as a freelancer? ( 1... 2) | 22 (1,428) |
 | Poll: Are you happy with the current state of your career? | 9 (853) |
 | Poll: The most important meal in a freelancer's day is... | 8 (657) |
 | Poll: Do you consider yourself a "digital nomad'? ( 1... 2) | 15 (1,274) |
 | Poll: How ill would you need to be to push back a deadline? ( 1, 2... 3) | 32 (2,785) |
 | Poll: Do you take part in a continuing education/development program? | 11 (798) |
 | Poll: Do you think people who work at home tend to pay less attention to personal hygiene than others? ( 1... 2) | 18 (1,403) |
 | Poll: "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." Is this true for translation? | 10 (1,082) |
 | Poll: Do you consider yourself well-informed on the latest in translation and the industry? ( 1... 2) | 16 (1,362) |
 | Poll: Do you eat at your desk? | 10 (885) |
 | Poll: My last work-related software upgrade was... | 4 (567) |
 | Poll: My last computer/hardware upgrade was... | 9 (851) |
 | Poll: Do you receive more "urgent" translation requests now than a couple of years ago? | 9 (774) |