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Poll: Do you get bored during your work?
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Gerard Barry
Gerard Barry
Alemania
Local time: 08:26
alemán al inglés
I did work ... Nov 10, 2021

Baran Keki wrote:

Gerard Barry wrote:
And because my current job is reasonably well paid, it's hard to leave.

Have you ever researched how much money you could make as a freelancer? There was a guy here not long ago who was boasting that he 'broke the record and made 100k in a year by translating' and most people here were waxing lyrical about his exploits. Just food for thought.


... as a freelancer before. Not that keen to go back to it at the moment though.
 
Baran Keki
Baran Keki  Identity Verified
Turquía
Local time: 09:26
Miembro
inglés al turco
Ok Nov 10, 2021

Gerard Barry wrote:
... as a freelancer before. Not that keen to go back to it at the moment though.

So it doesn't pay any better than the in-house position then?
 
Gerard Barry
Gerard Barry
Alemania
Local time: 08:26
alemán al inglés
Not in my case Nov 10, 2021

Baran Keki wrote:

Gerard Barry wrote:
... as a freelancer before. Not that keen to go back to it at the moment though.

So it doesn't pay any better than the in-house position then?


Not in my case, no. But there are other factors that make me not want to freelance as well, such as not wanting to work from home all the time.
 
Mario Freitas
Mario Freitas  Identity Verified
Brasil
Local time: 03:26
Miembro 2014
inglés al portugués
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Rarely Nov 10, 2021

Sometimes I do, but it's pretty rare. I used to get bored in other jobs, not in translation.

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Mario Freitas
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Brasil
Local time: 03:26
Miembro 2014
inglés al portugués
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What a pity, Gerard Nov 10, 2021

Gerard Barry wrote:

All the time. Translation is very boring work. Depends of course on what you're translating but seeing as most of us translate technical/legal/financial/business sort of texts, how could you not get bored?


I used to get bored when I worked with other things (I was a business manager for 20 years), but since I started translating, I rarely ever get bored. I hope you find something you love to do, like I did, one day.

[Edited at 2021-11-10 12:10 GMT]

expressisverbis
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Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
Francia
Local time: 08:26
francés al inglés
. Nov 11, 2021

Gerard Barry wrote:

But there are other factors that make me not want to freelance as well, such as not wanting to work from home all the time.


But then you complain that your translator colleagues are boring...

expressisverbis
 
Gerard Barry
Gerard Barry
Alemania
Local time: 08:26
alemán al inglés
Because many of them are. Nov 11, 2021

Kay Denney wrote:

Gerard Barry wrote:

But there are other factors that make me not want to freelance as well, such as not wanting to work from home all the time.


But then you complain that your translator colleagues are boring...



Because many of them are. Life can be complicated, Kay! No need to take my generalisations about translators personally.
 
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