| Pages in topic: < [1 2] | Poll: How many times do you go on vacation each year? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Tatty 
Local time: 10:00
Spanish to English
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| I definately take my holidays | Dec 24, 2010 |
Once you start, you can really get into it. I take the whole of August off and all other public holidays. Being my own boss, why would I make myself work when everyone else is off? If I end up working over a weekend I make sure that I make the next weekend a long one. Otherwise, we translators end up working like slaves, and we only have ourselves to blame. This is also part of the reason why rates are so low in some parts of the world. We should be able to make a decent to reasonably good livin... See more Once you start, you can really get into it. I take the whole of August off and all other public holidays. Being my own boss, why would I make myself work when everyone else is off? If I end up working over a weekend I make sure that I make the next weekend a long one. Otherwise, we translators end up working like slaves, and we only have ourselves to blame. This is also part of the reason why rates are so low in some parts of the world. We should be able to make a decent to reasonably good living working normal working hours and taking all our holidays.
I hope noone is working on Christmas day.
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| | | | Paul Dixon
Brazil
Local time: 05:00
Portuguese to English
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| What's a vacation? | Dec 24, 2010 |
In Brazil, where more than three quarters of your salary goes to the Government (more than one hundred taxes) it is impossible to take a vacation. A day travelling is less food in the fridge. So at most I take a couple of days travelling to a city nearby.
Last year I did make a trip with my wife but made a point of working while I was there.
| | | | Cecilia Civetta
Italy
Local time: 10:00
Member (2003)
Italian to Spanish
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David Wright wrote:
alongside zero, one, two or more than two - or do some people take one and a half holdiays?
Perhaps there are people who skip their holidays one year, the following year they go on holidays twice, then three times, then just once... In that case the answer could be "other / it depends", couldn't it?
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David Wright wrote:
How can there be "other" That's what I chose. Because it depends. I went on vacation once in 2007, twice in 2008, twice in 2009 and once this year. I'm only taking true vacation into account (over one week), not weekends or long weekends.
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Elena Novski
Canada
Local time: 04:00
Russian to English
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I am not sure I can afford that, as a freelancer who wants to be tapped to a highly competitive, in my language pair, business. Three or four days several times a year seem quite sufficient so far.
My most sincere Season's Greetings to everyone, more energy, more opportunities and more interesting projects in the forthcoming year and ever!
| | | | Alexey Ivanov
Russian Federation
Local time: 11:00
English to Russian
But forced vacations naturally happen, like now between Dec 21 and Jan 3 next year during which period there are no orders and you can safely vacation for 2 weeks without the clients being any wiser. I sometimes take long weekends from Thursday until Monday during the year. But that's seldom. If you want to be on the list of preferred suppliers for big clients you have to be available preferably throughout the year and preferably available at least for comments/reply to offers during the working... See more But forced vacations naturally happen, like now between Dec 21 and Jan 3 next year during which period there are no orders and you can safely vacation for 2 weeks without the clients being any wiser. I sometimes take long weekends from Thursday until Monday during the year. But that's seldom. If you want to be on the list of preferred suppliers for big clients you have to be available preferably throughout the year and preferably available at least for comments/reply to offers during the working hours every single day. That's tough, but that's how it is. ▲ Collapse
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Paul Dixon wrote:
In Brazil, where more than three quarters of your salary goes to the Government (more than one hundred taxes) it is impossible to take a vacation. A day travelling is less food in the fridge.
Same here unfortunately.
| | | | m_temmer
Local time: 02:00
English to Dutch
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| rates should be a priority | Dec 25, 2010 |
Susanna Martoni wrote:
Some translators could be alone, with babies to grow up and no help.
No holidays, no spare time, difficult life.
And rates and money are not priorities.
At least, not in the translation world.
For example.
Self-employed translators are business people and should make rates and money one of their priorities (there are of course other priorities too). If a hard-working translator is not able to take time off because otherwise he or she wouldn't make enough money to live on, then something is seriously wrong, IMHO. It's sad for the translator involved and the cheap labour puts pressure on the rates on the wider translation market, which could lead to more translators being forced to lower their rates and struggle to make a decent living. It's the lack of common business sense among freelance translators that makes things so difficult these days. And the agressive working methods of translations agencies aren't helping either, of course.
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| Three or four short breaks | Dec 26, 2010 |
Partly (since I live in my source language country) in order to return to my target language country to freshen up on current language materials, and also to revisit old haunts and catch up with old friends .
| | | | Michael Harris
Germany
Local time: 10:00
Member (2006)
German to English
more than 2, but the good old laptop is always two steps away from me:-)
| | | | Adnan Özdemir
Türkiye
Local time: 11:00
Member (2007)
German to Turkish
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| Tambien nice :) | Dec 26, 2010 |
Selamlar Michael
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