Poll: How often do you have to refuse work because you are fully-booked? Autor de la hebra: ProZ.com Staff
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neilmac
España
Local time: 19:19
español al inglés
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Usually, not very often. Lately, very often.
I usually try to pass any extra work on to colleagues, but since Easter everyone I know around here has had to refuse some work, so I haven't been able to channel everything that has come in.
It would help if 90% of clients weren't all in such a desperate hurry, but don't get me started on that one...
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If I am busy I try to negotiate another deadline and in general my clients are willing to wait, within reason... Hope you all have a nice week-end!
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| Three buses syndrome | Jun 19, 2011 |
Sometimes it seems like the more work I have, the more likely it is that I'll have to turn down some big, amazing project!
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| not very often | Jun 19, 2011 |
I tend to a steady flow of work and lately I've had to refuse some work which I don't like to do
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Thayenga 
Alemania
Local time: 19:19
Miembro 2009
inglés al alemán
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Jennifer Gordon wrote:
Sometimes it seems like the more work I have, the more likely it is that I'll have to turn down some big, amazing project!
Indeed, being busy - not available for other reason - seems to draw work like a magnet. And some of the project I had to turn down were just what I've been looking for.
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Amy Duncan (X)
Brasil
Local time: 14:19
portugués al inglés
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I turn down work nearly every week, and sometimes more than one job in a day, but it's not always because I'm fully booked with translation work. Sometimes I'm busy with something else (usually music work) or I just need a day off. Also I'll turn down jobs that I feel are outside my areas of knowledge or are just too excruciatingly boring or complicated (unless I really need the money).
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Amandine Added
Reino Unido
Local time: 18:19
Miembro 2010
inglés al francés
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| More often than I like | Jun 19, 2011 |
Like most of you I imagine, the more busy I get the more project I'm proposed and I have to turned down them even if I've been waiting exactly for these kind of project... Too bad but taking more than I can handle would not be very professional I always try to negotiate another deadline but in my specialty it seems to always be the emergency of the century:)
I'm also very careful about the subject, never taking something tha... See more Like most of you I imagine, the more busy I get the more project I'm proposed and I have to turned down them even if I've been waiting exactly for these kind of project... Too bad but taking more than I can handle would not be very professional I always try to negotiate another deadline but in my specialty it seems to always be the emergency of the century:)
I'm also very careful about the subject, never taking something that is outside of my field or that I think I cannot translate with a sufficient quality. ▲ Collapse
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Mainly because I'm already fully booked and too many jobs are described as desperately urgent. I try to negotiate a longer deadline but these days that often isn't possible. I also try to recommend a trusted colleague, but they too are often busy. Are these jobs really so urgent? Who knows? It's annoying, but seems inevitable.
Jenny
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I don't push myself. I tend to get large jobs, and I keep myself budgeted at 2,000 words a day. That means that I am turning down jobs almost every day, Monday through Friday.
Usually people have crazy deadlines, but if I'm working on a large job, it would be impossible for them to wait, anyway. If I try to "sandwich" them in, I get behind on the big job, so it doesn't pay.
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Muriel Vasconcellos wrote:
I am turning down jobs almost every day.
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