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Poll: What motivates you most to stay in the translation profession? Uwekaji wa uzi: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "What motivates you most to stay in the translation profession?".
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Lieven Malaise 
Ubelgiji
Local time: 04:30
Mwanachama(2020)
Kifaransa hadi Kidaji
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| Income, passion for languages and flexibility | Apr 16 |
I love my job, I love the freedom that comes with freelancing and it allows me to generate an income that I probably wouldn't be able to generate in employement. Right now I have no reason whatsoever to even consider to leave the industry partially, let alone completely.
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CasaPhil
Uhispania
Local time: 04:30
Mwanachama
Kiingereza hadi Kifaransa
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Being the last one to leave a sinking ship!
Philippe
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Lieven Malaise
Ubelgiji
Local time: 04:30
Mwanachama(2020)
Kifaransa hadi Kidaji
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Philippe Etienne wrote:
Being the last one to leave a sinking ship!
Ha, I forgot about that one. 😊
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Lingua 5B
Bosnyia na Hezegovina
Local time: 04:30
Kiingereza hadi Kifaransa
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As our Spanish friends say - nada. I didn’t stay. Although I sometimes interact with the community here.
I also find it weird to keep seeing “translation” references here, while it’s only editing and postediting industry now. What translation?
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Just as the anarchists used to graffiti the walls after the so-called Carnation Revolution, ‘The last one out, turn off the airport lights’, I intend to stay until the very end (in Lieven’s company?), because I’m too old to change careers now…
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Samuel Murray
Uholanzi
Local time: 04:30
Mwanachama(2006)
Kiingereza hadi Kiafrikana
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| Option 5: Inflexibility | Apr 16 |
I have no other skills. So there.
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Jennifer Levey
Chile
Local time: 23:30
Kihispania hadi Kiingereza
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I'm retired. I quit translation as a 'profesion', as a money-earner, many years ago.
I still spend a lot of time translating stuff - but entirely for my own purposes: dealing with public administrations in half-a-dozen different countries on matters relating to pensions, legal matters, etc., as well as in connection with some of my retirement projects. One of these is the development of a multi-lingual website focused on the families of European settlers who came to this part of C... See more I'm retired. I quit translation as a 'profesion', as a money-earner, many years ago.
I still spend a lot of time translating stuff - but entirely for my own purposes: dealing with public administrations in half-a-dozen different countries on matters relating to pensions, legal matters, etc., as well as in connection with some of my retirement projects. One of these is the development of a multi-lingual website focused on the families of European settlers who came to this part of Chile in the late 19th century and the land concessions granted to them by the Chilean government of that time.
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Gregor Trebec
Slovena
Local time: 04:30
Kiingereza hadi Slovere
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Paycheck and also the passion for languages.
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Michael Newton
Marekani
Local time: 22:30
Kijapani hadi Kiingereza
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| staying in the translation profession | Apr 16 |
Turning the question on its head: what induced Henry to leave the translation profession?
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The few clients I have left pay me four times what I get paid in my new job, so I’m sticking around for that.
And yes that’s real translation, Lingua 5B. There are still people who want it.
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Jessica Noyes
Marekani
Local time: 22:30
Mwanachama
Kihispania hadi Kiingereza
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Daryo
Local time: 03:30
Kiserbia hadi Kiingereza
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| Where is AI when you need it ... | Apr 17 |
Where is AI when you need it ... to inject a dose of optimism with some 'the future is bright' pearls of wisdom?
Is it possible that a Thing with such humongous giga-memrory has run dry on PR BS? Or is suddenly short of avatars?
As for 'staying in the translation profession' - again, all depends on your 'definition of terms':
-- 'the translation profession' where '... profession = your only source of income' - that one is long gone - when the plane started ... See more Where is AI when you need it ... to inject a dose of optimism with some 'the future is bright' pearls of wisdom?
Is it possible that a Thing with such humongous giga-memrory has run dry on PR BS? Or is suddenly short of avatars?
As for 'staying in the translation profession' - again, all depends on your 'definition of terms':
-- 'the translation profession' where '... profession = your only source of income' - that one is long gone - when the plane started losing altitude I bailed out without waiting for the nosedive phase of the 'meeting with the future'. For that a parachute (in the form of 'spare' professions) was very handy, OTOH
-- 'the translation profession' where '... profession = your vocation' - you don't quit on that. ▲ Collapse
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Philip Lees
Ugiriki
Local time: 05:30
Kigriki hadi Kiingereza
Jessica Noyes wrote:
Inertia
You beat me to it
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Lingua 5B
Bosnyia na Hezegovina
Local time: 04:30
Kiingereza hadi Kifaransa
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Jessica Noyes wrote:
Inertia
AI people were counting on this when reducing prices by 80% and ruining the market.
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