Poll: What kind of conditions would help you reduce stress levels and make your life easier? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "What kind of conditions would help you reduce stress levels and make your life easier?".
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The only thing causing me some level of stress at the moment is the fact that work demand is much more spaced than it used to be...
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Lieven Malaise
Belgium
Local time: 22:30
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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Getting paid without having to work.
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Samuel Murray 
Netherlands
Local time: 22:30
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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Whatever leads to more money.
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 22:30
Spanish to English
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I'm pretty much at the end of my career - in fact I reached retirement age a few years ago, but didn't realise it and kept on working and paying my self-employed Social Security contributions. Eventually the SS had to pay me back a couple of grand, which was nice for a change. Now, I only pay 30 € a month. Like most other translators, my work has dropped off a bit, but I still have enough to keep ticking over and not get bored.
All in all, my stress levels are pretty much okay, a... See more I'm pretty much at the end of my career - in fact I reached retirement age a few years ago, but didn't realise it and kept on working and paying my self-employed Social Security contributions. Eventually the SS had to pay me back a couple of grand, which was nice for a change. Now, I only pay 30 € a month. Like most other translators, my work has dropped off a bit, but I still have enough to keep ticking over and not get bored.
All in all, my stress levels are pretty much okay, and apart from general health issues I'm just glad to be alive. (I've just returned from the funeral of a friend here, and he was 10 years younger than me)... ▲ Collapse
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Liena Vijupe
Latvia
Local time: 23:30
Member (2014)
French to Latvian
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| reliable and consistent clients | Oct 16 |
who also pay fair rates.
Apparently, most of us just want to do the work in peace and earn a decent income, not new "faster" and "more productive" tools (only 1 person of a 100 seems to care about those at the time of this post). How interesting!
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Nadja Balogh
Germany
Local time: 22:30
Member (2007)
Japanese to German
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No accounting work, no bureaucracy hassle, just pure and simple translation - this would be my working heaven.
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A single project of 30kwords at €1000 per word would likely make my life easier.
"Likely" because I've never had to manage €30M for private purposes. Perhaps buying a couple of buildings, a few hundred square kilometers of arable land and one or two luxury resorts for renting would also generate more stress and complication than being a hunter gatherer in a rainforest.
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Daryo
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:30
Serbian to English
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Lieven Malaise wrote:
Getting paid without having to work.
Just do some research on what usually happens to lottery winners ...
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Lieven Malaise
Belgium
Local time: 22:30
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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Daryo wrote:
Just do some research on what usually happens to lottery winners ...
I was joking. There is no reason to take this any more serious than I intended it to be. 😊
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Nikolay Novitskiy
Russian Federation
Local time: 02:30
Member (2018)
English to Russian
| Errrything is alright | Oct 17 |
Why I don't think that translating is such a stressfull thing. I mean, it's much less stressful than skydiving or industrial climbing. The worst thing that can ever happen to you is to spill coffee on your keyboard...
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expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 21:30
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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Work has never stressed me out. In fact, what stresses me out is sometimes the lack of it.
On the question: it would be great if there were a cure for nerve-wracking Graves' disease, but I've been able to live with it.
To reduce stress and make my life easier, there's nothing better than being healthy and working! That's what I've always wished for.
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