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Poll: What do you do when you have no paid work lined up? Inițiatorul discuției: ProZ.com Staff
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Tom in London
Regatul Unit
Local time: 06:02
Membru (2008)
din italiană în engleză
Question "What do you do when you have no paid work lined up?".
Answer "Something else" (obviously).
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Justin Peterson 
Spania
Local time: 07:02
Membru (2007)
din spaniolă în engleză
Panic and imagine myself living under a bridge, with a cup on the sidewalk for handouts.
Why isn't this an option?
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| Pleasure myself | Feb 21, 2022 |
It's a great opportunity for some me time.
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polskiexpert
Regatul Unit
Local time: 06:02
Membru (2010)
din poloneză în engleză
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I celebrate and take my dog for a long walk!
M.
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Bruno Pavesi
Brazilia
Local time: 02:02
Membru (2020)
din engleză în portugheză
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| I try to make room for fun haha | Feb 21, 2022 |
When I'm not working I am:
- Playing games
- Checking out nature with my son
- Going on walks with my family
- Using said walks as an excuse to get ice cream
- Enjoying the time I have left with my cat, she was diagnosed with terminal cancer so, trying to enjoy her
- Studying my butt off and trying not to lose my mind
- Seeking out new clients
Though sometimes I'm just on my couch doing whatever is closest to zero things at all. It's ... See more When I'm not working I am:
- Playing games
- Checking out nature with my son
- Going on walks with my family
- Using said walks as an excuse to get ice cream
- Enjoying the time I have left with my cat, she was diagnosed with terminal cancer so, trying to enjoy her
- Studying my butt off and trying not to lose my mind
- Seeking out new clients
Though sometimes I'm just on my couch doing whatever is closest to zero things at all. It's nice to just zone out sometimes. ▲ Collapse
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Kay Denney
Franţa
Local time: 07:02
din franceză în engleză
Bruno Pavesi wrote:
Enjoying the time I have left with my cat, she was diagnosed with terminal cancer so, trying to enjoy her
My sympathies!
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| I suppose I take care of personal projects | Feb 21, 2022 |
and domestic chores, whenever I have extra time, but I don't remember any time when there was nothing on the horizon at all.
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Thayenga
Germania
Local time: 07:02
Membru (2009)
din engleză în germană
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| A combination | Feb 22, 2022 |
First I take care of personal projects and/or chores and then I go out into nature or meet with friends. There's always something to do.
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Rita Utt
Franţa
Local time: 07:02
din engleză în germană
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| Maybe that's not what works best | Feb 22, 2022 |
Christina Pauly wrote:
You absolutely baffle me! Don't you need to pay your bills?
I wouldn't dream of taking time off just because I don't have any assignments. I need to work to earn money, and save it for old age.
Who do you think will pay for my living when I'm old? Me, nobody else, just me.
In my experience networking or just thinking about strategy or streamlining your processes in order to work quicker and better or acquiring new skills and/or find new ways to showcase them is often more sucessful than sending out CVs and bidding
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Carmen Grabs
Germania
Local time: 07:02
Membru (2012)
din engleză în germană
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| Too much time on hand | Feb 23, 2022 |
I have done all my chores, my paperwork etc. but still have too much time available. What's happening in the translation world right now?
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Robert Forstag
Statele Unite
Local time: 01:02
din spaniolă în engleză
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| From smile to grimace | Feb 23, 2022 |
Justin Peterson wrote: Panic and imagine myself living under a bridge, with a cup on the sidewalk for handouts. Why isn't this an option?
Ten years ago, one might have characterized this as dark humor.
Now, it simply cuts too close to home[less]....
[Edited at 2022-02-23 18:19 GMT]
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Enrico Zoffoli
Italia
Local time: 07:02
Membru (2013)
din germană în italiană
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Luckily this has never happened in the last 10 years.
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Matthias Brombach
Germania
Local time: 07:02
Membru (2007)
din olandeză în germană
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| Earlier clients... | Feb 25, 2022 |
Carmen Grabs wrote:
What's happening in the translation world right now?
... of me (and you, perhaps) are openly recruiting here on proz and look for new translators, while their still existing sellers in their books have no work. I believe they have opened the next round in the downward spiral.
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Mihai Badea (X)
Luxemburg
Local time: 07:02
din engleză în română
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But not any book.
Right now - among others - I read one which is likely to illuminate what it means when banks are disconnected from the international inter-bank communication system.
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)
Cooperative governance for network innovation, standards, and community
Susan V. Scott, Markos Zachariadis
Routledge, 2014
It is a free book (published in Open regime).
***... See more But not any book.
Right now - among others - I read one which is likely to illuminate what it means when banks are disconnected from the international inter-bank communication system.
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)
Cooperative governance for network innovation, standards, and community
Susan V. Scott, Markos Zachariadis
Routledge, 2014
It is a free book (published in Open regime).
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A suggestion to ProZ.com
For some of us, books are important. If you could find a way to integrate books in the ProZ.com eco-system, that would be certainly appreciated. ▲ Collapse
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Anna A. K.
Germania
Local time: 07:02
Membru (2020)
din engleză în germană
| Life of a committed translator | Mar 3, 2022 |
When I don't translate, I use the time to catch up on linguistic topics and try to improve my translation skills by reading up on how to become a better translator/writer. Or I seek out new clients.
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