Poll: Would you describe your job as stressful? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Over the years, I’ve managed to get rid of some of the things I find more stressful: short deadlines (I don’t accept them) and late payments (all my customers pay on time, though at different periods). No offers for a while and then getting too many at once can stress me a bit, but that’s inherent to the freelancer’s life.
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| I still manage to enjoy the working part | Aug 26 |
While at the same time hating almost everything around it:
- Being ghosted by project managers,
- "your best rate?",
- dear resource,
- and so on...
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| 19.2% No, I don’t find it stressful at all | Aug 27 |
This cannot be true.
Every job has its moments of stress from time to time.
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Lieven Malaise
Belgium
Local time: 19:33
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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I always fully load and sometimes overload my planning. So obviously my work is sometimes stressful because of the deadlines. But that stress is nothing compared to the stress I feel when I think I'm running out of work (fortunately something that only happens once or twice a year). I prefer worrying about deadlines anyday above worrying about the amount of work I receive.
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 19:33
Spanish to English
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What I mostly find stressful about my job is that sometimes I have to combine it with other necessary time-consuming activities, for example vehicle maintenance, medical checkups and appointments (not always my own), or even socialising.
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| it has become stressful | Aug 27 |
it is getting more and more stressful.
low rates
impossibile deadlines
high taxes
and the increasing use of MT which produces standard and sometimes bad translations but then the underpaid translator will be blamed
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| After use of CAT tools less stress | Aug 27 |
From my experience before the year 2000 there was a time I got more stress due to an overflow of translation work load but at present the need for translation is decreasing but the quality of translation increased and the use of CAT the tools/AI help to make it less stressful. To be perfect most CAT tools translation still need about 15% editing, reviewing and proofreading and cause less stress.
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Kay Denney 
France
Local time: 19:33
French to English
I have one client who is always stressed out, but I charge her 20% more than others so that compensates for the stress. Also, since she has learned that she can trust me, she is less stressed nowadays.
Last time I got stressed was when a PM didn't confirm her order with a PO, after sending the usual request complete with the customary "please do not start until you get the official PO" in bold. I didn't realise until after she had clocked off Friday evening. I would have worked for a few ... See more I have one client who is always stressed out, but I charge her 20% more than others so that compensates for the stress. Also, since she has learned that she can trust me, she is less stressed nowadays.
Last time I got stressed was when a PM didn't confirm her order with a PO, after sending the usual request complete with the customary "please do not start until you get the official PO" in bold. I didn't realise until after she had clocked off Friday evening. I would have worked for a few hours on it at the weekend to make the deadline easier to manage and possibly fit other stuff in during the week, but never mind. Then on the Monday morning, my phone was playing up and for some reason I couldn't answer calls. The PM was calling frantically to check that I could still do the job, while I was out walking the dog of course. Then when I called her back she didn't answer, then called me again but my phone wouldn't let me answer...
Before I could get round to taking my phone to be repaired, it mysteriously started working again. harumph! ▲ Collapse
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expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 18:33
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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because it's not work that stresses me out, it's some people.
I'd rather have loads of work and have my mind busy and contribute to something good and positive through my work as a translator than sitting still and stressing out.
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| 80% compressive, 12% flexural, 5% tensile, 3% shear | Aug 29 |
I've been noticing how people (especially those who speak English) are now increasingly inclined to use words that have no color, like stress, for things that can be described with many words of all colors. They use medical terms like syndromes and conditions describe what's going on in their heart. I even heard the word "hydrate" used for the act of drinking water (there is no one word in Russian by which this could be translated, at least I can't think of one). When asked if I ever had depress... See more I've been noticing how people (especially those who speak English) are now increasingly inclined to use words that have no color, like stress, for things that can be described with many words of all colors. They use medical terms like syndromes and conditions describe what's going on in their heart. I even heard the word "hydrate" used for the act of drinking water (there is no one word in Russian by which this could be translated, at least I can't think of one). When asked if I ever had depression, I said I did after breaking up with my girlfriend, but my words were misinterpreted to mean I was a serious depression case shunning to seek medical care. According to them, depression is an almost incurable mental disease that needs to be treated with medication (it was the first time I learned about it, and this broke one of my plans). To answer the original question, working to tough deadlines is about the only source of stress, and there's usually nothing I can do about it because I'm a full-timer ▲ Collapse
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