Poll: Are you the main breadwinner in your household?
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Jun 24, 2022

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Lieven Malaise
Lieven Malaise
Bélgica
Local time: 03:26
Miembro 2020
francés al neerlandés
+ ...
Yes. Jun 24, 2022

My partner works less than half-time, so yes.

[Edited at 2022-06-24 08:59 GMT]


 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 02:26
Miembro 2007
inglés al portugués
+ ...
Yes Jun 24, 2022

I have been living alone since my youngest daughter left the nest some 20 years ago (in fact she has been living with me again since December last year but she's not financially dependent on me any more). Translation allowed me to support myself (I'm a widow) and raise my three kids on my own.

Barbara Cochran, MFA
 
expressisverbis
expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 02:26
Miembro 2015
inglés al portugués
+ ...
Again? Jun 24, 2022

How many times should we keep asking the same question?

Just try to copy and paste this question in Google followed by "Proz", and you will see the results.

[Edited at 2022-06-24 09:58 GMT]


Baran Keki
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
writeaway
Barbara Carrara
Tom in London
Michele Fauble
Angie Garbarino
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 02:26
Miembro 2007
inglés al portugués
+ ...
. Jun 24, 2022

expressisverbis wrote:

How many times should we keep asking the same question?

Just try to copy and paste this question in Google followed by "Proz", and you will see the results.

[Edited at 2022-06-24 09:58 GMT]


Well, apparently when Proz has no new Quick Polls questions (or hasn’t vetted yet the ones that have been suggested) recycles the old ones over and over again. And yet one of the rules for suggesting a poll is “Ensure that a similar question has not been asked recently by searching for key terms”.

[Edited at 2022-06-24 10:35 GMT]


expressisverbis
writeaway
Barbara Carrara
Jennifer Levey
 
David GAY
David GAY
Local time: 03:26
inglés al francés
+ ...
True Jun 24, 2022

expressisverbis wrote:

How many times should we keep asking the same question?

Just try to copy and paste this question in Google followed by "Proz", and you will see the results.

[Edited at 2022-06-24 09:58 GMT]

True, but people come and go. The translation landscape has changed a lot. Same goes for personal situations. So in my opinion, it s always interesting to ask.

[Edited at 2022-06-24 13:28 GMT]


Anja Hajek
Dina Lebedieva
Barbara Cochran, MFA
Edward Potter
Maria da Glória Teixeira
 
Tom in London
Tom in London
Reino Unido
Local time: 02:26
Miembro 2008
italiano al inglés
Yes Jun 24, 2022

Yes - I'm the main breadwinner in my household. And there's only one person: me. And a cat.


New question: what did you have for breakfast this morning?

[Edited at 2022-06-24 17:25 GMT]


expressisverbis
Robert Rietvelt
 
Philip Lees
Philip Lees  Identity Verified
Grecia
Local time: 04:26
griego al inglés
Poll ideas Jun 25, 2022

Tom in London wrote:

New question: what did you have for breakfast this morning?

[Edited at 2022-06-24 17:25 GMT]


Do you have the same number of toes on your left foot as on your right?

Yes | No | Other | Don't know


Barbara Carrara
P.L.F. Persio
Tom in London
expressisverbis
Robert Rietvelt
Thomas T. Frost
 
Lingua 5B
Lingua 5B  Identity Verified
Bosnia y Herzegovina
Local time: 03:26
Miembro 2009
inglés al croata
+ ...
LOL Jun 25, 2022

Is your middle toe bigger than your big toe?

Tom in London
P.L.F. Persio
expressisverbis
Robert Rietvelt
 
Changes Jun 25, 2022

expressisverbis wrote:

How many times should we keep asking the same question?

Just try to copy and paste this question in Google followed by "Proz", and you will see the results.

[Edited at 2022-06-24 09:58 GMT]

Maybe there's been a massive wave of divorces or marriages among translators since Covid.

People may have got sick of their partners also working from home. Or had a bigger pool to pick from in their online dating.

I've gone from earning 80% (married) to 100% (single) to 50% (recoupled) over the past three years, and I do like to see myself as a trendsetter.


expressisverbis
P.L.F. Persio
 
expressisverbis
expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 02:26
Miembro 2015
inglés al portugués
+ ...
No interest whatsoever Jun 25, 2022

David GAY wrote:

So in my opinion, it s always interesting to ask.



And I answer with a question: Why it is so important to know if we are the main breadwinners in our household? If speed is more important than quality, what clothes am I wearing today while working or not...?
There are polls that are a complete nonsense to me and other questions very private, and that's why most part of the time I don't answer.
I have no interest whatsoever to know if you are the main breadwinner or not in your household.

[Edited at 2022-06-25 16:43 GMT]

[Edited at 2022-06-25 16:43 GMT]


Robert Rietvelt
Kristina SAT
ahartje
 
Dan Lucas
Dan Lucas  Identity Verified
Reino Unido
Local time: 02:26
Miembro 2014
japonés al inglés
Ny Jun 25, 2022

expressisverbis wrote:
There are polls that are a complete nonsense to me and other questions very private, and that's why most part of the time I don't answer.

Problem solved, surely?

Dan


expressisverbis
 
expressisverbis
expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 02:26
Miembro 2015
inglés al portugués
+ ...
Yes, surely. Jun 25, 2022

Dan Lucas wrote:

Problem solved, surely?

Dan


I don't consider it a problem, but yes, I try to ignore what doesn't interest me.
This question was already asked before during this year (February 2022), that's the reason of my participation in this poll.
Here it is:

https://www.proz.com/forum/poll_discussion/356194-poll_are_you_the_only_bread_winner_in_your_household.html

And I am sure that there are many interesting polls out there...


Matthias Brombach
 
Robert Rietvelt
Robert Rietvelt  Identity Verified
Local time: 03:26
Miembro 2006
español al neerlandés
+ ...
Actually ...... Jun 25, 2022

Lingua 5B wrote:

Is your middle toe bigger than your big toe?


.... Yes it is!

About these poll questions (and answering them), don't we have better things to do, like translating for example? Or is there not enough work?

[Edited at 2022-06-25 20:42 GMT]


expressisverbis
 


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