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Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients? | I live to translate

Elías Sauza — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:56:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients?
Poster: Elías Sauza
Post title: I live to translate

[quote]Erzsébet Czopyk wrote:

This is my daily bread, so, if I say definitely not for something, there has to be some very special reason. [/quote]

Definitely, I don't care being too busy every day. I just work a little longer... :)

Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients? | If it can be done, do it

Nigel Greenwood (X) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:02:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients?
Poster: Nigel Greenwood (X)
Post title: If it can be done, do it

I responded 'Other'.
I always accept jobde that I can professionaly handle, (being within my specilaities). I hvae always met with the imposed deadlines, and even try to deliver the job before the deadline. For example, currently I have two jobs and both are 'urgent' (like practically all of them) so with carfeul planning and constancy it can be done. So, "if it can be done, do it".

Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients? | It depends!

Sundar Gopalakrishnan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:26:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients?
Poster: Sundar Gopalakrishnan
Post title: It depends!

It depends on how much time I have at my disposal. If I have a lot of time I accept more than one job with same deadline.

[Edited at 2008-07-11 15:00]

Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients? | Common sense, I think.

Richard Jenkins — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:23:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients?
Poster: Richard Jenkins
Post title: Common sense, I think.

If your maximum output per day is 3000 words, for example, and you accept a 'tomorrow' deadline of 3000 words, then it's going to be rather silly accepting another job with a similar deadline. Don't you think? Even if the job is only 500 words or so, you risk compromising the delivery agreement on BOTH jobs. Much as I would like to, I simply cannot do that. However, if you use common sense, and accept 2000 words (for example) per day over a 7 day timespan, it would thereby allow you to accept another 1000 words job per-day-er from another client and perhaps another nice little job from yet another, as requirements demand. I've done it in the past and experience now tells me to stretch the deadline out as much as you can and accept what you can do comfortably within that deadline so as not to have to refuse other clients on small or urgent jobs. I like the clients I work for, mostly, which makes it annoying to have to say NO - I'm too busy/stretched/stressed etc..! Yes, I would and happily do do two or three jobs at the same time with similar deadlines (thank God those situations DO occur from time-to-time) - which doesn't worry me too much as long as I don't overstretch those DLs...

Just a further comment. I think that because of the intense competition on the translation market, it sometimes seems logical to take on as many words as you possibly can, logically, whenever you can get it. That has been one of my policies in the past that still does apply on occasion/depending on circumstances (especially financially), but it does somewhat backfire at times in terms of refusals to clients you really like, in terms of stress etc...

[Edited at 2008-07-11 00:25]

Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients? | All the time

Marie-Hélène Hayles — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:38:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients?
Poster: Marie-Hélène Hayles
Post title: All the time

Today I did 6 different jobs for 3 different clients - slightly more than usual, but nothing out of the ordinary.

Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients? | Same here

Henry Hinds — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:31:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients?
Poster: Henry Hinds
Post title: Same here

I just take the work as it comes in and then get it out.

Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients? | 8-10 deadlines per day from 6-7 different clients....

Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:10:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients?
Poster: Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
Post title: 8-10 deadlines per day from 6-7 different clients....

...is our every day life here.

Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients? | Same here

C. Mouton — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:12:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients?
Poster: C. Mouton
Post title: Same here

As long as you can manage both volumes for the agreed dealine, why not combine?

Of course, it is not always possible, but when it is, why refrain from it?

Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients? | Ditto

John Cutler — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:26:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients?
Poster: John Cutler
Post title: Ditto

[quote]Cecilia Civetta wrote:

What a question. I do it every day, all the time, as long as I can manage to meet all the deadlines. [/quote]

You took the words right out of my mouth. :-)

Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients? | Of course

Cecilia Civetta — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:12:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients?
Poster: Cecilia Civetta
Post title: Of course

What a question. I do it every day, all the time, as long as I can manage to meet all the deadlines.

Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients? | Every day!

Christine Andersen — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:27:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients?
Poster: Christine Andersen
Post title: Every day!

It does depend very much how big your jobs are.

Today I did one of 365 words and one of 47 words. The week's "big" job, nearly 5000 words with no matches in Trados, is for tomorrow. It is so boring that I have to take breaks anyway.

Luckily the deadline is not tight - I have simply said I will deliver tomorrow because then I will stop putting it off and finish it!

When I worked in house, my office was next door to a team who specialised in really big technical projects. They shared TMs, discussed proofreading and spent months on a single project. They sometimes got really stressed over deadlines if the client was not cooperative, and then celebrated in style when they finally delivered. That was different.

In the department I belonged to, all the small jobs were charged by the hour and sent to in-house translators who were paid a monthly salary... and I still do some of them.

I often have five or six deadlines on a Friday. Some for EOB, which in practice means Monday morning, and some for midday or 2 pm. I do the most urgent and the most difficult ones first, and then finish the others off.

It's no big deal if you organise your work accordingly.

:-) :-) :-)

Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients? | This depends on the size of the project.

Chunyi Chen — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:15:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients?
Poster: Chunyi Chen
Post title: This depends on the size of the project.

If these projects are small, there is no reason not to accept them simply because they need to be delivered on the same day.
Even if they are big, if they both were given a comfortable lead time, you can still take on them.
The thing is, I have found "comfortable lead time" is a rare case these days, so I picked that "yes, only a few times" answer.

Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients? | As long as I can meet them

Reed James — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:41:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients?
Poster: Reed James
Post title: As long as I can meet them

If I can meet both deadlines, I accept them. If I cannot, I choose the job that pays better or is the easiest to handle for whatever reason.

That's all there is to it.

Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients? | no reason, no way

Erzsébet Ráczné Czopyk — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:34:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients?
Poster: Erzsébet Ráczné Czopyk
Post title: no reason, no way

I have no reason to do it and there is no way to decline different jobs even with the same deadline. This is my daily bread, so, if I say definitely not for something, there has to be some very special reason.

Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients?

ProZ.com Staff — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:20:51 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Have you ever accepted different jobs with the same deadline from different clients?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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