Poll: What would solve your biggest concern at the moment?
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neilmac
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 17:25
Spanish to English
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Money Sep 16, 2023

The car I bought in February has developed an engine fault and I expect it will cost a lot to fix. Not long after buying it, I forgot to put the handbrake on properly and it rolled into the wall outside my house, causing 1700 € worth of damage to the bodywork and headlamps. So, a windfall of 5000 € or so would be a great help to offset these misfortunes.

I had a kidney removed a couple weeks ago and am recovering well, so my health seems to be as good as can be expected under th
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The car I bought in February has developed an engine fault and I expect it will cost a lot to fix. Not long after buying it, I forgot to put the handbrake on properly and it rolled into the wall outside my house, causing 1700 € worth of damage to the bodywork and headlamps. So, a windfall of 5000 € or so would be a great help to offset these misfortunes.

I had a kidney removed a couple weeks ago and am recovering well, so my health seems to be as good as can be expected under the circumstances.
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Dan Lucas
Diana Obermeyer
expressisverbis
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 16:25
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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Health Sep 16, 2023

I have no concerns other than my health. I have a very common condition in older age - knee osteoarthritis.

Yetta Jensen Bogarde
expressisverbis
 
Mr. Satan (X)
Mr. Satan (X)
English to Indonesian
Other Sep 16, 2023

Vendor lock-in is my biggest concern at the moment. I have to use several cloud translation platforms, and some of them are straight up rejecting Firefox. I'm also still experimenting if OmegaT could work with SDLXLIFF without issues. Good thing that DOCX and XLSX can be opened and modified flawlessly in LibreOffice.

Stupid proprietary software with their stupid proprietary file formats. I wish them dead. That would solve this nonsense.

[Edited at 2023-09-16 10:09 GMT]


 
Kevin Fulton
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United States
Local time: 11:25
German to English
Winning big in the lottery ... Sep 16, 2023

... would take care of a lot of my concerns, but would create a new one: taxes, but I could hire someone to manage that.

expressisverbis
Philip Lees
Diana Obermeyer
Muriel Vasconcellos
 
Dler Piran
Dler Piran  Identity Verified
Iraq
Local time: 18:25
Member (2023)
English to Kurdish
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Banks and mony transfer services Sep 16, 2023

Most of the money transfer services, like PayPal and Payoneer, are not available in my country, and banking services are just too bad for international transfers here.

 
Tom in London
Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:25
Member (2008)
Italian to English
Dinner Sep 16, 2023

ProZ.com Staff wrote:

"What would solve your biggest concern at the moment?".


Deciding what to have for dinner.


Elena Feriani
 
expressisverbis
expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 16:25
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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Pasta Sep 16, 2023

Tom in London wrote:

ProZ.com Staff wrote:

"What would solve your biggest concern at the moment?".


Deciding what to have for dinner.


Or is it a mission "impastable"?

My answer to this poll:
As long as I keep my "mens sana in corpore sano" and doing all my best as a person and as a professional, I am able to (re)solve my concerns.

[Edited at 2023-09-16 18:29 GMT]


Tom in London
 
bishan sharma
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Local time: 20:55
English to Japanese
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Other Sep 17, 2023

Well, I am 75 and retired. My biggest concern at the moment is that how should I spend my rest of life. What kind of activity should I adopt to make my rest of life meaningful.

 
Muriel Vasconcellos
Muriel Vasconcellos  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 08:25
Member (2003)
Spanish to English
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Health Sep 17, 2023

I had a stroke last year (of *their* making during an operation) and am gradually getting into the swim of things again. I tend to drop words when I write -- though not when I am speaking.

expressisverbis
Zea_Mays
Barbara Carrara
 
S_G_C
S_G_C
Romania
Local time: 18:25
English to Romanian
The lottery!!! Sep 18, 2023

If I won the lottery - and I'm not even aiming for the 1st prize.
This is truly not a joke, unfortunately.
I could really help both myself, my daughter, and my little niece (born with a rare genetic syndrome) with the money. It would chase the nightmares away and push my daily anxiety aside.


 
S_G_C
S_G_C
Romania
Local time: 18:25
English to Romanian
Me Sep 18, 2023

Muriel Vasconcellos wrote:

I tend to drop words when I write -- though not when I am speaking.


Gosh, this appeals to me - I tend to forget words when I speak yet place them where they belong when I write. Or think one thing and utter another - like, for example, my teenage daughter was excitedly telling me about this new make-up powder she would have liked to try and I wanted to ask her what shade she chose and instead I said "how do you take it". It didn't make any sense at all. I also tend to drop things.
However, I never thought this could indicate a possible stroke...

Wishing you and everybody else struggling with health issues a speedy recovery!


 


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