Poll: How many hours do you generally work per week? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "How many hours do you generally work per week?".
This poll was originally submitted by Nathalie White. View the poll results »
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Michael Harris 
Germany
Local time: 03:45
Member (2006)
German to English
Have cut back a lot, but still manage my 60 hour week
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The official working week here in France is 35 hours. I work around 55 hours a week, usually 10 hours/day and a few extra hours over the weekend.
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 03:45
Spanish to English
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... is what I said, off the top of my head, but really, who's counting?
It also depends on how you define "work/ing"... all the admin and PR type tasks we have to do as freelancers is also hard graft, so perhaps Michael's 60 hours is nearer the mark.
Then again, could answering this vaguely work-related poll be considered as work? More to the point, what am I doing waffling away here when I have a deadline...?
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John Cutler
Spain
Local time: 03:45
Spanish to English
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It's hard to keep track since I don't follow any particular schedule. I work some every morning and every afternoon. Often times I find myself working on the weekends and even some holidays, although not as much as I used to.
I personally don't bother with this type of statistics. All I need to know is that I'm meeting my deadlines and getting the work done.
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Adnan Özdemir
Türkiye
Local time: 04:45
Member (2007)
German to Turkish
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| *Winter__ >70 hours | Mar 10, 2011 |
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^^Winter^^ per week: > 70 hours
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Saludos desde Anatolia
Anadolu'dan selamlar
[Edited at 2011-03-10 10:16 GMT]
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Ahmad Mustaf (X)
Indonesia
Local time: 08:45
Depends on the volume of work I have. Usually I work 40-60 hours/week if my work volume is high, and 5-10 hours/week if work is little.
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It's really workload related for me.
When I'm chock-a-translation about the house then I suppose I get around 60 hours done (with lots of breaks - which usually involve housework or something simple to take my mind of translating).
However there are weeks when I really only have the odd job come in and I dedicate more time to marketing.
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Emma Goldsmith
Spain
Local time: 03:45
Member (2004)
Spanish to English
| Thanks for giving me a chuckle, Neil | Mar 10, 2011 |
neilmac wrote: More to the point, what am I doing waffling away here when I have a deadline...?
Sounds familiar... I think this accounts for more of my 50+ hours than I would like to admit.
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I had to combine the two because some weeks it can be very quiet, like last week!
I'd say about 40 probably...
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DianeGM
Local time: 04:45
Member (2006)
Dutch to English
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Don't count hours per week for starters and don't compare weeks as every week work load is different and so are my other commitments
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 03:45
Member (2009)
English to German
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Emma Goldsmith wrote: neilmac wrote: More to the point, what am I doing waffling away here when I have a deadline...? Sounds familiar... I think this accounts for more of my 50+ hours than I would like to admit.
This week has definitely more than 50 hours for me. They're closer to 70. But after the deadline will have been met, I will take an entire day off. Unless... a new job arrives.
Still, it does help my concentration to drift away from the job for a couple of miinutes. Then, fairly regenerated, I turn to it and so get a little closer (or faster?) to meeting my dealine.
[Edited at 2011-03-10 16:26 GMT]
[Edited at 2011-03-10 16:26 GMT]
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| Couldn't have said it better! | Mar 10, 2011 |
John Cutler wrote:
It's hard to keep track since I don't follow any particular schedule. I work some every morning and every afternoon. Often times I find myself working on the weekends and even some holidays, although not as much as I used to.
I personally don't bother with this type of statistics. All I need to know is that I'm meeting my deadlines and getting the work done.
I make enough money to have a great lifestyle, I get up when I feel like it and my clients are satisfied. Counting how many hours it takes to achieve this is irrelevant to me
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