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Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know? | Since I can work from "anywhere" (at least in theory) - absolutely!

Hege Jakobsen Lepri — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 03:14:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know?
Poster: Hege Jakobsen Lepri
Post title: Since I can work from "anywhere" (at least in theory) - absolutely!

I took the poll question to be about traveling that isn't mandated by your job - but chosen/voluntary.
I'm much more flexible than my salaried husband, so I travelled to help my youngest settle in to university in Liverpool recently - and I travelled to help my oldest daughter when she had surgery in January in Oslo. A also spend at least a couple of weeks annually with my annually in my home town with my parents - all while working.
A few years back both kids were out of the house temporarily on exchanges, and I could travel to Belize 6 weeks. I'm also able to join my husband when he travels for work, at least once in a while, and we try to do a day or two extra for actual exploring of the place instead of just working both of us.

Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know? | Opportunities

Ricki Farn — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 19:46:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know?
Poster: Ricki Farn
Post title: Opportunities

I guess freelance translators can do anything from becoming digital nomads to growing roots on their butt.

One of the reasons I chose freelancing was the opportunity to avoid (business) travel, but I realize that the exact opposite is just as plausible.

Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know? | Yes

Barbara Cochran, MFA — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:21:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know?
Poster: Barbara Cochran, MFA
Post title: Yes

Since my work has been entirely freelance since 2002, I have been quite free to travel to the UK and to several countries in Europe (Rome, Central Italy, Portugal, Paris, Spain, Ireland, England, and Wales) whenever colleagues and clients have invited me to visit as their guest.

I find that most clients are very understanding when I tell them I won't be available for at least a few weeks.

[Edited at 2018-09-26 16:22 GMT]

Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know? | Not translators. Interpreters maybe.

Mario Freitas — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:23:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know?
Poster: Mario Freitas
Post title: Not translators. Interpreters maybe.

Opportunities to travel are more common to interpreters. Translators have less opportunities even to leave their own homes! The people who really have more opportunities to travel abroad are the rich ones, not the freelancers.
What we do have more than the others is the opportunity to move abroad. We can really live anywhere in the world, as long as there is an internet connection and a method to transfer money electronically from one currency/country to another.

[Edited at 2018-09-26 15:25 GMT]

Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know? | Yes

Kay Denney — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:59:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know?
Poster: Kay Denney
Post title: Yes

I don't see that the question is necessarily about business travel? Working in-house, I had to go to the firm's annual meeting, usually in the north of France but once in the Netherlands. I very occasionally had to work on-site for a client too. As a free-lancer, I don't particularly want to have to travel for business. I'll happily go to lunch with a client, and there's a friend who sometimes asks me to go over to her place for us to work together, it's also an excuse to see each other. If a client started asking me to work at their place I would have to negotiate hard to be able to retain all the freedom of free-lancing, because no way could I go back to working 9-5 again.

As a free-lancer I can work wherever I happen to be, which suits me fine. I took the opportunity to stay with friends in July: they were having a big celebration and I was able to go for a week rather than just a quick weekend. Staying longer meant I could catch up with everyone properly, and actually relax and visit the area rather than just go to the party and come back exhausted with a backlog of work to get through. As an early riser, I did most of my work before any of my friends were even out of bed, then I could have fun with them once they'd had their coffee.

My partner will be retiring soon, and we hope to be able to travel a fair bit. So long as I have an Internet connection, I'm pretty easy as to destinations, and there's no limit as to how long we can stay anywhere (apart from money of course).

Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know? | Yes

Yetta Jensen Bogarde — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:33:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know?
Poster: Yetta Jensen Bogarde
Post title: Yes

I attend a couple of national and international conferences for translators every year

Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know? | It depends...

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:06:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: It depends...

[quote]Axelle H. wrote:

Depends on the job of non-freelancers...If you are talking about in-house translator, I don't think they are traveling so much ?? [/quote]

A number of people working for the EU as in-house translators (I’m not talking of interpreters) have to travel a lot between the three places of work (Brussels, Luxembourg and Strasbourg) for some meetings…

Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know? | Other

Muriel Vasconcellos (X) — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:35:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know?
Poster: Muriel Vasconcellos (X)
Post title: Other

Not anymore. When I was an in-house translator (two different international organizations), I traveled to almost every country in Latin America and several in Europe. In those days, headquarters translators were sent to every meeting. We often worked through the night to have documents ready for the delegates in the morning. As each page was produced (and checked by a senior reviewer), it would get passed on to the typing pool for retyping in the proper single-spaced format.

That was before the Internet! My switch to freelancing coincided with introduction of the current practice of delivering electronic documents attached to emails.

[quote]So when Axelle H. wrote:
If you are talking about in-house translator, I don't think they are traveling so much ??, [/quote]

there was a time when in-house translators got to travel a lot!

I might add that, because of my experience working for meetings, I was transitioned to précis-writing, which continued to involve some travel. But I gave that up some time ago. I find that traveling takes more out of me than it used to.

[Edited at 2018-09-26 09:37 GMT]

Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know? | Not interested in travelling

CasaPhil — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:31:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know?
Poster: CasaPhil
Post title: Not interested in travelling

But I undertood the question was about business travel. I'm quite fine with travelling on holidays.

Philippe

Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know? | Other

Axelle H. — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 08:29:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know?
Poster: Axelle H.
Post title: Other

Depends on the job of non-freelancers...If you are talking about in-house translator, I don't think they are traveling so much ??

Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know? | Other

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 08:23:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: Other

Not now! My circumstances have changed a lot! I lived alone in Brussels for 30 years but the fact that my children were in Lisbon made me travel at least every month until I retired from my job and decided to move back in 2015. I haven’t traveled since…

Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know?

ProZ.com Staff — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 08:10:02 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have more opportunities to travel than non-freelancers you know?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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