Poll: How much of your necessary income do translation and/or other linguistic services provide? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "How much of your necessary income do translation and/or other linguistic services provide?".
This poll was originally submitted by John Holloway. View the poll results »
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Every single € cent of it.
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Nikolay Novitskiy 
Russian Federation
Local time: 14:20
Member (2018)
English to Russian
I consider translation as a business, and I prefer to specialize than to devirsify now. Perhaps that's because my return on investment in this activity is still growing. When it begins to fall, I'll consider either making some changes, or turning to other activities. It depends.
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| Way over 100% | Jun 18, 2020 |
I make far more money than my family actually needs.
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I don’t live from my translation income. I have a pension from the 30 years I worked in-house (an EU institution). I only started freelancing when I retired. I don't know anyone else my age that isn't retired, but I have no intention of stopping…
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 10:20
Member (2009)
English to German
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| Less than 25% | Jun 18, 2020 |
Linguistic services are only one of my three financial "legs". Even more so because I am providing them only a few hours per week since my retirement. Unless, of course, a larger and interesting project comes up.
[Edited at 2020-06-18 11:22 GMT]
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Aline Amorim
Brazil
Local time: 06:20
English to Portuguese
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| 25 - 50% of my necessary income | Jun 18, 2020 |
Linguistic services are only one of my five financial "legs".
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The other 20% comes from a survivor's pension.
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Enrico Zoffoli
Italy
Local time: 10:20
Member (2013)
German to Italian
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I work full time as a translator and could make ends meet even if I cut my working hours by 30%.
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Enrico Zoffoli wrote:
I work full time as a translator and could make ends meet even if I cut my working hours by 30%.
However I do not think you are alone here.
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... and I am very pleased about this.
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I wish that option had been up there.
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 10:20
Spanish to English
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"Language services" is/are my only source of income.
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Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 06:20
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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100% since June 2013. It could actually have happened a lot earlier than 2013 if I had trusted the profession instead of investing in other illusional jobs in-house. But better late than never.
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:20
Member (2008)
Italian to English
ProZ.com Staff wrote:
This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "How much of your necessary income do translation and/or other linguistic services provide?". This poll was originally submitted by John Holloway. View the poll results »
What is "necessary income? Isn't it all necessary?
So my answer to this latest dumb question is: all of it.
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