| Pages in topic: < [1 2] | Poll: How often do you have to work all night long in order to meet a deadline? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Trinh Do 
Australia
Member (2007)
English to Vietnamese
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I used to - I must admit I was a very stupid person. It doesn't pay off, as the quality can suffer, and my health suffers. Blood glucose increases, mental health worsens, and it makes you lethargic for days.
I advise against it. Just outsource part of the work to colleagues to help them or turn down the project.
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I mostly do large jobs (50-100 pages), and at the end I invariably have a lot more small stuff to take care of than I planned on. It usually seems to work out that way, but not always. The shorter the job, the more easily I can avoid those late nights at the end.
Now in my career as a conference translator, I was often assigned to the night shift and had no choice about it. Once I did an 8-hour night shift and then they asked me to work the next shift in the morning - 16 hours with ... See more I mostly do large jobs (50-100 pages), and at the end I invariably have a lot more small stuff to take care of than I planned on. It usually seems to work out that way, but not always. The shorter the job, the more easily I can avoid those late nights at the end.
Now in my career as a conference translator, I was often assigned to the night shift and had no choice about it. Once I did an 8-hour night shift and then they asked me to work the next shift in the morning - 16 hours with almost no breaks. That was the nature of the work. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | As often as is necessary.... | Dec 4, 2011 |
.....which should be never! It would be bad planning, a case of accepting an unacceptable deadline combined with unexpected circumstances which might lead to this, but it should never be seen as an immediate option.
And I am interpreting "working all night" as meaning adding an additional 12 hours onto an already completed work cycle. Hardly likely to be productive....
I think I may have done this once when I was a student. ... See more .....which should be never! It would be bad planning, a case of accepting an unacceptable deadline combined with unexpected circumstances which might lead to this, but it should never be seen as an immediate option.
And I am interpreting "working all night" as meaning adding an additional 12 hours onto an already completed work cycle. Hardly likely to be productive....
I think I may have done this once when I was a student. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Robert Forstag
United States
Local time: 21:31
Spanish to English
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All night long? To my mind, this means staying up working until at least 4 a.m. I've done this maybe five times in eight years, and only once in the last three years.
It is something I am simply unwilling to do, in the absence of some extraordinary compensation arrangement (not likely to be forthcoming).
As a freelance translator, I am prepared to be flexible, but I am not a Gumby doll....
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| used to in good old days | Dec 4, 2011 |
I used to when I was young, can't afford that 'luxury' for health reasons any longer
| | | | Chun Un
Macau
Member (2007)
English to Chinese
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| Yes, but not very often | Dec 4, 2011 |
I simply realise that I am not what I used to be twenty years ago... Working all night is just the very last resort to make up the time lost during the day.
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I think as you get older,it's really hard to bounce back the next day. Not worth it! Working late, ok...all night, forget it!
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Sometimes but I don't really like it. Only when it is necessary. Translating is not my main occupation and first half a day is my regular job.
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