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Poll: Have you ever worked past midnight on a project? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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| Other (between regularly and occasionally) | Oct 3, 2015 |
When I started out freelancing some 40 years ago, all-nighters were very regular, as I had a full-time job, and I would push through the night with a few espressos in order to beat a deadline. I still work past midnight occasionally, but my all-nighters are long gone...
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raptisi 
Greece
Local time: 17:02
English to Greek
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And until 6:00 AM, when I had to go to my other, regular job
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Ty Kendall
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:02
Hebrew to English
| Only once in my first year of translating | Oct 3, 2015 |
Once was enough to realize how ill-advised and counterproductive it was. (At least for me).
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I voted "occasionally" but it happened only once as an exception.
I don't work past 6-7 PM. My productivity work-wise is so low that the next morning would be spent on cleaning up all the nonsense I'd produced in the previous evening.
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Diana Coada (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:02
Portuguese to English
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| No, and I wouldn't! | Oct 3, 2015 |
I can't even think straight after 8pm.
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 16:02
Spanish to English
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| Yes, occasionally | Oct 3, 2015 |
It's no big deal. I don't have to get up in the morning at a set time or take kids to school etc., so my schedule is pretty flexible. I can usually chop and change any arrangements I might have in order to deal with things as they crop up.
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B D Finch
France
Local time: 16:02
French to English
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| Yes, but never again | Oct 3, 2015 |
I am a natural night-owl and tend to stay up late. This is not good and, as others have noted, for most people, myself included, productivity and accuracy drops off late at night even if one is not conscious of it at the time. Far better to go to bed early and get up very early. That's something I haven't yet managed though.
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Muriel Vasconcellos (X)
United States
Local time: 07:02
Spanish to English
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It's a routine for me. That's when the interruptions stop. Since I don't have a human family and my dogs are very patient, there's no urgency for me to get up early the next day.
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I always thought all translators stayed up late. However, this poll nudges me to try and stay with the majority.
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Charlotte Farrell
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:02
Member (2013)
German to English
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It's when I'm most productive - everyone is in bed, things are quieter, and I also know that I can't put anything off till later like I can do earlier in the day. I then don't set my alarm for any time in the morning so I always get better sleep and can get back into work slowly. It's definitely what works best for me
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Richard Jenkins
Brazil
Local time: 12:02
Member (2006)
Portuguese to English
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I've always been a late starter so working into the evenings is normal for me when I've got a heavy workload, but I have a psychological 11 PM drop off point, and working beyond that seems like infringement on my personal time and life. I need a couple of hours to wind down, read a book, listen to some music before finally hitting the sack.
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But I try to avoid doing so whenever possible, since it has a knock-on effect on the following days - for me anyway.
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| I have, and wish I could again | Oct 3, 2015 |
Freelancing has definitely put me in touch with my brain's natural rhythm, and I now know what my ideal working day would be... unfortunately, living with three other people in a limited space makes it nigh-on impossible to sustain. Ideally, I would work from say 7 till 1, spend the afternoon doing stuff not presenting huge intellectual challenges, including a really good sleep, then sit back down to it from say 10 till 1, when my brain is once more fizzing and particularly creative (not to say ... See more Freelancing has definitely put me in touch with my brain's natural rhythm, and I now know what my ideal working day would be... unfortunately, living with three other people in a limited space makes it nigh-on impossible to sustain. Ideally, I would work from say 7 till 1, spend the afternoon doing stuff not presenting huge intellectual challenges, including a really good sleep, then sit back down to it from say 10 till 1, when my brain is once more fizzing and particularly creative (not to say ever-so-slightly mad!). Until that day comes, I will try to avoid going past about 11, or I simply don't get enough sleep for it to be sustainable. ▲ Collapse
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Used to do that every day when I was young :-0)
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