Poll: How far in advance can you plan your work availability? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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| | | | | I don´t know... | Jun 22, 2007 |
I can´t really know because it depends on the project I am working on. Nowadays this is not a problem for me because I work exclusively for an agency, so they ask me how much time do I have before assigning me another project.
Best,
Fernando
| | | | ilker ingiz
Türkiye
Local time: 01:42
German to Turkish
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Since 1-2 years I am working much more for European Agencys, so I can make some plans. If I find more serious Agencys in Europe and let the turkish Agencys behind me maybe I may plan for one week
| | | | Paola Giardina 
Argentina
Local time: 19:42
Member (2006)
English to Spanish
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| No "calm" weeks for freelancers | Jun 22, 2007 |
I found this when I used to work with doctors as secrecrary and receptionist.
This always happened:Whenever I dared to say: "I think this seems to be a calm week, isn't it, Doctor?", I found new patients complaining at the waiting room. At that moment, this annoyed me
Now, again...talking about translations: a new project - a big one - is waiting for my answer in my spam-overloaded mailbox.
So, in spite of the obvious difference between patiens and transl... See more I found this when I used to work with doctors as secrecrary and receptionist.
This always happened:Whenever I dared to say: "I think this seems to be a calm week, isn't it, Doctor?", I found new patients complaining at the waiting room. At that moment, this annoyed me
Now, again...talking about translations: a new project - a big one - is waiting for my answer in my spam-overloaded mailbox.
So, in spite of the obvious difference between patiens and translations, I keep on using it as my lucky phrase, because today I do love my job.
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Parrot
Spain
Local time: 00:42
Spanish to English
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| Let me guess... | Jun 22, 2007 |
> 1 month for interpreters?
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I'm generally fully booked for the forthcoming 3-5 working days, and as I mainly do fairly short jobs (average about 2,000 words, but varying from 100 to 5000) most clients can't accept a longer deadline than a week or 10 days maximum. Right now, I've got bigger jobs lined up until mid-September, but they won't fill in all of my time so I can still fit in most of my normal stuff.
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| | | | Steven Capsuto
United States
Local time: 18:42
Member (2004)
Spanish to English
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| Three days or so | Jun 23, 2007 |
I usually have one or two long-term jobs running, and then fill in additional time with short-term jobs that are usually scheduled about three days into the future.
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Sometimes, when I'm translating a book (as I am now), my schedule is planned for one to three months ahead (although I still try to squeeze in a few small jobs from time to time, so that my other clients don't feel totally fotgotten ). But generally I know what I'll be doing in the next 2-7 days.
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My real answer would be about 2-3 days, as I notice others have mentioned in this discussion, but I put one day in the survey as the only other nearest option was 1 week.
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