Poll: Do you find it frustrating when urgent projects pop up during holidays or summer? Автор на темата: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Do you find it frustrating when urgent projects pop up during holidays or summer?".
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| No, I appreciate the work. | Jul 31, 2025 |
I live alone, I have no family obligations, I'm my own boss and I love keeping my clients happy…
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Zea_Mays 
Италия
Local time: 21:15
Английски на Немски
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| ? "I try not to work during holidays/summer." ? | Jul 31, 2025 |
Summer is an entire season of 3 months.
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Liena V.
Латвия
Local time: 22:15
Член (2014)
Френски на Латвийски
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I find urgent projects frustrating no matter when they pop up, but I appreciate the work as long as it pays well and I can manage to do it.
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Lieven Malaise
Белгия
Local time: 21:15
Член (2020)
Френски на Холандски
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Receiving translation requests is never frustrating. Either I'm available, or I'm not. The only thing that I imagine to be possibly frustrating is reveicing no requests during a week and then receiving 3 large translation requests of which you can only accept one. Fortunately that never happens.
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Lingua 5B
Босна и Херцеговина
Local time: 21:15
Английски на Френски
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| Depends on the project | Jul 31, 2025 |
Last summer I received an offer on my phone while I was literally on a SUP board on the sea. I quickly told them I was interested, then provided a longer reply once I was back to the shore. If this required me to actually work while on vacation, I wouldn't have replied. But this was an interpreting project starting after my vacation. Actually it was easy for me to travel from the country where I vacationed to the country of the assignment on my way back. And the project was worthwhile and paid w... See more Last summer I received an offer on my phone while I was literally on a SUP board on the sea. I quickly told them I was interested, then provided a longer reply once I was back to the shore. If this required me to actually work while on vacation, I wouldn't have replied. But this was an interpreting project starting after my vacation. Actually it was easy for me to travel from the country where I vacationed to the country of the assignment on my way back. And the project was worthwhile and paid well.
So, my answer is - it depends. ▲ Collapse
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Rita Faleiro
Португалия
Local time: 20:15
Член (2025)
Испански на Portuguese
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| I appreciate any work that appears | Jul 31, 2025 |
We are two freelancers workers at home. With two kids to feed, if we don't work, we don't receive. So, summer or not, I appreciate all the work that appears.
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Samuel Murray
Нидерландия
Local time: 21:15
Член (2006)
Английски на Африкаанс
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| Poll asker is from the US | Jul 31, 2025 |
The poll asker uses "holidays" for one-day national holidays and "summer" for multi-day holidays. So, poll asker is from the US. But we know what they mean. They mean "during a national/bank holiday or during vacations/holidays".
[Edited at 2025-07-31 11:00 GMT]
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Oscar Núñez Alfaro
Коста Рика
Local time: 13:15
Член (Oct 2026)
Английски на Испански
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I find it wonderful to receive projects when I actually need them. But, when I am busy with many projects, it is really hard to receive more projects even if I want to work with them.
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Oscar Núñez Alfaro
Коста Рика
Local time: 13:15
Член (Oct 2026)
Английски на Испански
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I find it wonderful to receive projects when I actually need them. But, when I am busy with many projects, it is really hard to receive more projects even if I want to work with them.
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IrinaN (X)
Съединени американски щати
Local time: 14:15
Английски на Russian
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| High-school kid's question? | Aug 1, 2025 |
Adults do not have all-summer vacations....
It's getting curiouser and curiouser
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CasaPhil
Испания
Local time: 21:15
Член
Английски на Френски
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I have a holiday in order to forget about work. Nevermind if I miss a project.
Being frustrated for not being able to take on work, or for reluctantly taking on work, is like wanting to be in two spots at the same time or two individuals in one.
Decisions need to be made and accepted, because time is a one-way street where reversing is forbidden.
Philippe
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Sometimes life is urgent, and lots of peole are not on holiday at any given time.
What is frustrating is when I have told a client I am able to take on a job, but hear nothing for a week, and then suddenly they want it overnight or preferably yesterday ...
And meanwhile I have enought to do for other clients.
But that doesn´t happen much these days!
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WolfgangS
Франция
Local time: 21:15
Английски на Немски
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Provided it's a good customer and not some agency short of translators during that period.
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