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Poll: How many jobs would you say you have completed so far this year? Autor de la hebra: ProZ.com Staff
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I want fewer jobs and more words per job.
Philippe
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Mar Brito 
Reino Unido
Local time: 15:02
Miembro 2015
inglés al español
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I know this because I keep a very detailed spreadsheet with every one of them -couldn't manage without it.
I would love for fewer but bigger projects to come my way so that I wouldn't have to juggle so many at the same time, but it works for me.
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I also keep track of every job with a spreadsheet.
These 455 projects include very big projects as well as many tiny jobs. Of course, I am very happy to have more than enough work, but I am also trying to work on big projects more often because the administrative hassle for tiny projects is ridiculous.
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Exactly 188 until the end of August, everything from very large to tiny projects...
[Edited at 2019-09-18 09:49 GMT]
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Thomas Pfann
Reino Unido
Local time: 15:02
Miembro 2006
inglés al alemán
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| Trend to small jobs and ongoing projects | Sep 18, 2019 |
It's hard to estimate but the number of jobs I have completed so far is certainly in the hundreds. I have issued around 50 invoices since the beginning of the year but many/most of those cover multiple jobs.
It used to be very different when I started out as a translator some 13 years ago. Back then, most of my projects were much larger, often tens of thousands of words and I'd get a few small jobs in between. Since then, though, I noticed a clear trend towards the reverse. These da... See more It's hard to estimate but the number of jobs I have completed so far is certainly in the hundreds. I have issued around 50 invoices since the beginning of the year but many/most of those cover multiple jobs.
It used to be very different when I started out as a translator some 13 years ago. Back then, most of my projects were much larger, often tens of thousands of words and I'd get a few small jobs in between. Since then, though, I noticed a clear trend towards the reverse. These days a 5,000-word translation is already a large job in my book. And more recently (say, over the last two years or so), I took on several accounts which are running on a tab and I get small regular requests (in some cases on an almost daily basis) and invoice at the end of the month. I don't mind this at all and it actually suits me very well but it's definitely a very different way of working than ten years ago. ▲ Collapse
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The number is reflected in the invoice no.
It used to be more by this time of the year, but I am purposely scaling down and in the process weeding out, especially clients with long payment terms.
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Samuel Murray
Países Bajos
Local time: 16:02
Miembro 2006
inglés al afrikaans
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ProZ.com Staff wrote:
"How many jobs would you say you have completed so far this year?"
And it's already September, so it's a slow year for me. 1150 total last year, also 1150 total the year before that. 230 invoices so far.
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101 jobs to date spread over 44 invoices and representing about 242000 words.
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neilmac
España
Local time: 16:03
español al inglés
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I suppose I could estimate it, but it would take me time which I would rather dedicate to the couple of jobs I have in hand today. Let's just say I've made enough to pay the bills, which is all I need to know until the end of the month when I have to do my quarterly tax return.
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Mario Freitas
Brasil
Local time: 11:03
Miembro 2014
inglés al portugués
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93 so far.
However, a "job" measures absolutely nothing, since a "job" can have 25 words or 250,000 words.
This question would be a lot smarter if it asked how many words have you translated so far this year.
Considering that, I issued 101 invoices, for 971k words so far.
But it's still not a good indicator since the word count includes translations and revisions.
[Edited at 2019-09-18 18:47 GMT]
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Thomas Pfann
Reino Unido
Local time: 15:03
Miembro 2006
inglés al alemán
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| Small drops vs large projects | Sep 18, 2019 |
Mario Freitas wrote:
However, a "job" measures absolutely nothing, since a "job" can have 25 words or 250,000 words.
This question would be a lot smarter if it asked how many words have you translated so far this year.
[Edited at 2019-09-18 18:47 GMT]
No, that wouldn't be a smarter question, it would be an altogether different question.
I find the question interesting precisely because a job can have 25 words or 250,000 words.
[Edited at 2019-09-18 22:24 GMT]
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| Don't know, don't care | Sep 19, 2019 |
I get numerous small jobs every month from 4-6 agencies.
I bill at the end of the month. So, I can tell you how many invoices I've sent, but I have absolutely no interest in trying to figure out the number of jobs/projects.
The cats and I have plenty of kibble, and that's all that matters.
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But my jobs tend to be large. One was 38,000 words. Quite a few of them were over 10,000.
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Mario Freitas
Brasil
Local time: 11:03
Miembro 2014
inglés al portugués
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| Check this, Thomas | Sep 19, 2019 |
Thomas Pfann wrote:
No, that wouldn't be a smarter question, it would be an altogether different question.
I find the question interesting precisely because a job can have 25 words or 250,000 words.
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I had 93 jobs so far and 917,000 words.
Olly had 101 jobs and 242,000 words.
Samuel had 650 jobs, which shows he does a lot of very small jobs and very few big ones.
If you studied statistics, you know that "jobs" as an indicator in this case is entirely meaningless. Just supposing this was for ranking purposes, I'd be one of the last ones in the list, and I doubt very much anyone has exceeded my volume in words.
Yes, I know it's not a competition. I'm just saying "how many jobs" means nothing at all.
[Edited at 2019-09-19 06:37 GMT]
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