Poll: How does the summer business slump affect you?
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Lieven Malaise
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Belgium
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Member (2020)
Faransiis to Dutch
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Steady Jul 19

My workload stays more or less steady, but I'm taking at least 15 days off, so my income in the months of July, August and September is often lower than in the other months.

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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
Local time: 16:39
Member (2007)
Ingiriisi to Portuguese
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N/A Jul 19

Slump? As many translators take their summer vacations and I don’t, some years those are my best months. Besides that, I have a long-time customer who every year has a good volume of translations to be delivered at the end of September. Usually, I start receiving their projects in the beginning of August…

 


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Poll: How does the summer business slump affect you?






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