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Poll: Is frugality necessary to be a successful freelancer? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Is frugality necessary to be a successful freelancer?".
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Mary Worby 
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:17
German to English
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I see no link between frugality and success as a freelance translator.
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inkweaver
Germany
Local time: 08:17
French to German
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I don't see the link either. 
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Nicole Schnell
United States
Local time: 23:17
English to German
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In memoriam
Is that required from lawyers, scientists, architects or medical doctors, too? They probably went to the same university as the translator.
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DianeGM
Local time: 09:17
Member (2006)
Dutch to English
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Never thought about it.
[Edited to add:]
So I suppose that is a de facto 'NO!'
[Edited at 2013-02-06 08:34 GMT]
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Mary Worby
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:17
German to English
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.. profligate spending might serve as a better incentive to work hard and be successful!
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Thomas Pfann
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:17
Member (2006)
English to German
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| Don't see the connection either | Feb 6, 2013 |
If anything frugality is probably an obstacle to being successful as a freelancer.
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Nicole Schnell
United States
Local time: 23:17
English to German
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In memoriam | Feel free to kill me | Feb 6, 2013 |
But I think that anyone who is posting such a question probably shouldn't be a translator and / or run a business.
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| Not in the least | Feb 6, 2013 |
First, I agree that there's no connection.
Second, I am the opposite of frugal: if I have money, I spend it. And I consider myself successful.
I work for high rates. If I worked for low rates and had a family support, then frugality might might be a useful trait.
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Wrong question... What do you mean actually?
Save your money? To be modest in your rates? To avoid every-and-one offer from any client?
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Can't see the connection between being frugal and being successful!
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Timo Eugster
China
Local time: 14:17
Finnish to English
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| Another fine poll on Proz | Feb 6, 2013 |
To echo the other comments here, why would you have to be frugal to be successful?
Smart people tend not to spend their money wastefully.
The implied alternative would appear to be something akin to the plot from the film Brewster's Millions (which could be fun but, ultimately, unethical).
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What exactly do you mean?
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Allison Wright (X)
Portugal
Local time: 07:17
Is frugality necessary?
What, exactly, is a successful translator?
What is success?
(I think I know what a translator is.)
That's the problem with working for two hours in the morning, sustained only by pear juice instead of coffee. I get floored by a ProZ poll!
Edited for a gaffe, because I am a flawed human being. Floored twice now. My third cup of coffee is going down really wel... See more Is frugality necessary?
What, exactly, is a successful translator?
What is success?
(I think I know what a translator is.)
That's the problem with working for two hours in the morning, sustained only by pear juice instead of coffee. I get floored by a ProZ poll!
Edited for a gaffe, because I am a flawed human being. Floored twice now. My third cup of coffee is going down really well.
[Edited at 2013-02-06 12:01 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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