Poll: For me professionally, the first half of 2022 was Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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All in all, it was positive, but with the usual ups and downs:
January: so, so
February; good
March: excellent
April: so, so
May: very good
June: good
July will be very good as after two very quiet weeks I have two big projects: a 35,000 words translation EN-PT and a 28,000 revision FR-PT. That's the life of a freelancer!
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Kay Denney 
France
Local time: 10:33
French to English
I was on an upward curve back in Feb 2020 which was my peak month since starting to freelance, then Covid smashed it all to pieces. Since Jan 22 I feel like I have managed to get back to where I left off, and I'm now averaging that peak from Feb 20, so definitely very positive for me. I'm now enjoying, not exactly a lull, but a quieter time, so I can get most of my work done in the morning before my partner even gets up, then take some time to do stuff together (he being retired now).
[Ed... See more I was on an upward curve back in Feb 2020 which was my peak month since starting to freelance, then Covid smashed it all to pieces. Since Jan 22 I feel like I have managed to get back to where I left off, and I'm now averaging that peak from Feb 20, so definitely very positive for me. I'm now enjoying, not exactly a lull, but a quieter time, so I can get most of my work done in the morning before my partner even gets up, then take some time to do stuff together (he being retired now).
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Lieven Malaise
Belgium
Local time: 10:33
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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-11% compared to same period of 2021
+38% compared to same period of 2020
+35% compared to same period of 2019
+10% compared to same period of 2018
etc.
Neither stellar nor disastrous
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Actually I was on downward curve during the first semester of this year. But thank God that at least I am still having my saving and I hope things will get better to me as an English-Indonesian translator and to all translators reading this.
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Kevin Fulton
United States
Local time: 04:33
German to English
| Same as most years | Jul 26, 2022 |
Jobs with identical deadlines, unpredictable gaps between offers. The current summer has been unusually slow, however.
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Susanna Martoni
Italy
Local time: 10:33
Member (2009)
Spanish to Italian
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Not fantastic.
Some good news, some good projects.
The problem is discontinuity.
Resistere resistere restistere 
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If it goes on like that, I will hit the 100k mark this year. I am happy and thankful that everything goes so well.
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Dan Lucas
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:33
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
| Strong in my pair/area | Jul 26, 2022 |
JA-EN financial translation has been busy all year.
I'm turning down work through lack of capacity and fatigue.
Dan
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Paul Dixon
Brazil
Local time: 05:33
Portuguese to English
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Very bad. I did get some interesting jobs, including a book on dentistry, but not even a drop in the tsunami of bills I have to pay. Brazil, which was already in a deep crisis, was very badly hit by covid and many companies went bust or pulled out of the country (Ford being the most notable case).
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