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Poll: How far in advance are your projects usually confirmed?
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Kashif Bozdar
 
Gregor Trebec
Gregor Trebec
Slovenia
Local time: 14:26
Ingiriisi to Slovenian
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What projects? Mar 4

There is hardly any work at all. Most buiseness is going on behind the scenes.

Kashif Bozdar
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Maria Laura Curzi
 
Lieven Malaise
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Belgium
Local time: 14:26
Member (2020)
Faransiis to Dutch
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Varies Mar 4

It varies widely. Sometimes it's urgent, sometimes it's a week or even 2 weeks ahead. But I suppose most translators will experience this.

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
Local time: 13:26
Member (2007)
Ingiriisi to Portuguese
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It varies widely! Mar 4

I haven’t been booked very often in advance in over 40 years working as a translator, but in the first days of this year a very dear client booked me for a project due to start around the end of February and to run the whole year with projects having very different lengths, from very small to very large. Finally, I received the first one at the beginning of this month: a very welcomed 25,000 words project on organic farming which will be delivered tomorrow. Are things changing at last or is th... See more
I haven’t been booked very often in advance in over 40 years working as a translator, but in the first days of this year a very dear client booked me for a project due to start around the end of February and to run the whole year with projects having very different lengths, from very small to very large. Finally, I received the first one at the beginning of this month: a very welcomed 25,000 words project on organic farming which will be delivered tomorrow. Are things changing at last or is this the last breath? ▲ Collapse


Lieven Malaise
 
Lieven Malaise
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Belgium
Local time: 14:26
Member (2020)
Faransiis to Dutch
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Silver lining Mar 4

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:
Are things changing at last or is this the last breath?


If it's the last breath, then it will be a good one: February was a superb month and in this first week of March I keep being flooded with work (including crazy requests like "I have 13.000 words to be dealt with by tomorrow. How many can you take?").
 


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