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Poll: What aspect of being a freelance translator do you find hardest to deal with?
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Henry Schroeder
Henry Schroeder  Identity Verified
United States
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Member (2002)
German to English
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The computer Sep 21, 2015

all the time without interruption...
 
Mario Freitas
Mario Freitas  Identity Verified
Brazil
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Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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A combination of ALL these Sep 22, 2015

... would be a good choice, for I believe all of us translators (or most of us) have to deal with all these issues.

Thinking about each one separately, though it was a tough choice, I realized irregular and usocial hours is my main issue today. Not because it's a real problem for me, but because I end up not following my wife's and my children's routine, despite all the advantages of working late at night, already dicussed in a recent post here.
 
Venkatesh Sundaram
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India
Local time: 05:41
German to English
All of the above? Sep 22, 2015

Mario Freitas wrote:

... would be a good choice, for I believe all of us translators (or most of us) have to deal with all these issues.

Thinking about each one separately, though it was a tough choice, I realized irregular and usocial hours is my main issue today. Not because it's a real problem for me, but because I end up not following my wife's and my children's routine, despite all the advantages of working late at night, already dicussed in a recent post here.


A couple of colleagues have already mentioned that "all of the above" ought to be an option
 
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