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Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle? | True, but only to some extent

Daryo — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 22:11:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle?
Poster: Daryo
Post title: True, but only to some extent

[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:

[quote]Oscar Núñez Alfaro wrote:

I work at home, live with my parents and have saved some money, so I could live very well for more than a year. [/quote]

A good reason for a potential client reading this to pay you a poor rate.
Folks, don't share private information in public forums! [/quote]

You could also see it as an argument for: don’t bother me with your silly rates, I can do nicely even without you - and mean it. So that bottom feeders move on to easier targets and leave you alone.

Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle? | Already happened

Tom in London — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:42:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle?
Poster: Tom in London
Post title: Already happened

[quote]ProZ.com Staff wrote:

This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle?".

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[/quote]

In my case that has already happened and I have resigned myself to it.

Fortunately due to having no dependents, no debts, having worked hard in the good years, and having (just) enough pension income to cover my regular outgoings, I'll be OK. I have always had a frugal lifestyle and I don't intend to suddenly splurge on expensive holidays, cars, etc.

But I appreciate that others here have been totally or heavily reliant on translation as their only source of income, have dependents or other obligations, and have not been able to make provision for a rainy day and.....

Here's that rainy day. And the song, interpreted by a great interpreter:

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[Edited at 2025-09-11 07:45 GMT]

Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle? | a month or so...

Gregor Trebec — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 05:57:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle?
Poster: Gregor Trebec
Post title: a month or so...

Not much, a month or so... I am on invalidity pension which is ridicously low.

Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle? | What does "all work" mean?

Denis Fesik — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 05:06:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle?
Poster: Denis Fesik
Post title: What does "all work" mean?

Is it the grimmest scenario? Let's say I'm a freelancer, and all my customers have abandoned me for good (or in my case, my employer has shown me the door, because, in fact, my workload over the last few months has been very scanty but I've been receiving my pay anyway). I'm back on the job market, expecting as I may well be to land a new job within weeks. No big deal, my lifestyle won't suffer much. And all I keep hearing is "No!" All doors closed forever. I take out a loan to pay for vocational training, use portions of the money to pay my bills and buy food and other portions to repay the loan itself—all to no avail. No jobs for me as it I were a criminal with a serious background. So, is the whole thing just a way to find out how many weeks', months', or years' worth of savings I have? Well, I'm not telling you

Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle? | Thanks for your opinions!

Oscar Núñez Alfaro — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:50:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle?
Poster: Oscar Núñez Alfaro
Post title: Thanks for your opinions!

[quote]Alexandra Villeminey wrote:

[quote]Oscar Núñez Alfaro wrote:

I work at home, live with my parents and have saved some money, so I could live very well for more than a year. [/quote]

With all due respect, but then it's not you but your parents who maintain your lifestyle. [/quote]

I am grateful for that! To be honest, I work and charge a good rate for my services, and I was glad to come back home and help my parents as they do with me.

Thank you for your honesty, Alexandra and Zea!

Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle? | Z E R O

Claudio Machado Junior — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:58:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle?
Poster: Claudio Machado Junior
Post title: Z E R O

[quote]IrinaN wrote:

[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:

Folks, don't share private information in public forums! [/quote]

I'm done being nice or humorous.

What is wrong with that obsessed, ill-bred mind that keeps pushing unrelated yet tacky, offensive and dangerously intrusive polls about our private and financial circumstances - passwords, savings etc? Didn't your parents teach you differently?

I'm proposing a counter poll:

How many reliable, human-oriented, decently paying clients did you obtain in 2025 via Proz directory:

One
More than one
Zero

Let's see the real side of Proz, something relevant for a change. [/quote]

Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle? | got to keep the nose to the grindstone

Alexandra Speirs — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:39:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle?
Poster: Alexandra Speirs
Post title: got to keep the nose to the grindstone

[quote]IrinaN wrote:

I'm proposing a counter poll:

How many reliable, human-oriented, decently paying clients did you obtain in 2025 via Proz directory:

One
More than one
Zero

Let's see the real side of Proz, something relevant for a change. [/quote]

ZERO!

Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle? | ...

Alexandra Villeminey — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:05:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle?
Poster: Alexandra Villeminey
Post title: ...

[quote]Oscar Núñez Alfaro wrote:

I work at home, live with my parents and have saved some money, so I could live very well for more than a year. [/quote]

With all due respect, but then it's not you but your parents who maintain your lifestyle.

Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle? | Proz seems to be incurable

IrinaN (X) — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:36:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle?
Poster: IrinaN (X)
Post title: Proz seems to be incurable

[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:

Folks, don't share private information in public forums! [/quote]

I'm done being nice or humorous.

What is wrong with that obsessed, ill-bred mind that keeps pushing unrelated yet tacky, offensive and dangerously intrusive polls about our private and financial circumstances - passwords, savings etc? Didn't your parents teach you differently?

I'm proposing a counter poll:

How many reliable, human-oriented, decently paying clients did you obtain in 2025 via Proz directory:

One
More than one
Zero

Let's see the real side of Proz, something relevant for a change.

Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle? | your clients do online research about you

Zea_Mays — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:51:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle?
Poster: Zea_Mays
Post title: your clients do online research about you

[quote]Oscar Núñez Alfaro wrote:

I work at home, live with my parents and have saved some money, so I could live very well for more than a year. [/quote]

A good reason for a potential client reading this to pay you a poor rate.
Folks, don't share private information in public forums!

Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle? | I could live comfortably well.

Oscar Núñez Alfaro — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:41:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle?
Poster: Oscar Núñez Alfaro
Post title: I could live comfortably well.

I work at home, live with my parents and have saved some money, so I could live very well for more than a year.

Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle? | Indefinitely...

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:58:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: Indefinitely...

I don’t plan to retire, but I can live comfortably on my pension…

Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle?

ProZ.com Staff — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:10:04 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle?".

View the poll results »