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Poll: Do you think freelancing can make one "sluggish"?
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Oct 10, 2010

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Oleksandr Kupriyanchuk
Oleksandr Kupriyanchuk  Identity Verified
Egyesült Államok
Tag (2009 óta)
orosz - angol
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Vice versa?! Oct 10, 2010

Actually, freelancing can make a fast-moving one move even faster and, contrariwise, make a slow-moving one move ever slower



[Edited at 2010-10-10 08:23 GMT]


 
Interlangue (X)
Interlangue (X)
Angola
Local time: 22:47
angol - francia
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Yes... Oct 10, 2010

... for those who lack self-discipline...

 
Angie Garbarino
Angie Garbarino  Identity Verified
Local time: 22:47
Tag (2003 óta)
francia - olasz
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I agree Oct 10, 2010

Interlangue wrote:

... for those who lack self-discipline...


 
Simon Bruni
Simon Bruni  Identity Verified
Egyesült Királyság
Local time: 21:47
Tag (2009 óta)
spanyol - angol
Yes Oct 10, 2010

Since going freelance I've started developing a mucous membrane and a penchant for lettuce

 
Thayenga
Thayenga  Identity Verified
Németország
Local time: 22:47
Tag (2009 óta)
angol - német
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Not rellay Oct 10, 2010

It all depends on the freelancer, his/her character and what she/he wants in life and the affiliated goals, both life in general as well as one's professional life.

 
Anne-Sophie Cardinal
Anne-Sophie Cardinal  Identity Verified
Kanada
Local time: 16:47
Tag (2007 óta)
angol - francia
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I fully agree! Oct 10, 2010

Interlangue wrote:

... for those who lack self-discipline...


 
mk_lab
mk_lab  Identity Verified
Ukrajna
Local time: 23:47
Tag (2004 óta)
angol - orosz
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I'm also completelly agree Oct 10, 2010

It all depends on the freelancer, his/her character and what she/he wants in life and the affiliated goals

Good guys - are good, but bad ones - are sure bad

Question is how to keep your energetics HIGH working alone (without communications with companions, workfellows, co-workers)?



[Edited at 2010-10-10 13:39 GMT]


 
Jack Doughty
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Egyesült Királyság
Local time: 21:47
orosz - angol
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Az Ő emlékére:
Opposite Oct 10, 2010

I retired from a full-time job in 1990. If I hadn't had freelance work and ProZ to keep me interested, I could be on the way to senile decay by now.

 
Tina Vonhof (X)
Tina Vonhof (X)
Kanada
Local time: 14:47
holland - angol
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Sluggish? Oct 10, 2010

Sluggish? For the past ten years I held down a busy full-time job and translated in the evenings and on weekends. Now I am close to retiring but I will put extra effort into my translation business. I don' even know what sluggish means.

 
María Eugenia Wachtendorff
María Eugenia Wachtendorff  Identity Verified
Chile
Local time: 16:47
angol - spanyol
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Not at all! Oct 10, 2010

Each client is a "boss" you need to keep content. There's no time for sluggishness here.

As we say in Chile: "Al camarón que se duerme se lo lleva la corriente"


 
Henry Hinds
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Egyesült Államok
Local time: 14:47
angol - spanyol
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Az Ő emlékére:
No Slugs Oct 11, 2010

We all have a boss who is totally unforgiving, a slave driver, who we can see every morning in the mirror. Those who don't will have already died of hunger.

And as we say on the border, "camarón que se duerme se lo lleva la chi... [colorful Mexican expletive deleted].


 
Gianluca Marras
Gianluca Marras  Identity Verified
Olaszország
Local time: 22:47
angol - olasz
it can, in my case no Oct 11, 2010

Well at the beginning someone can think: Oh I'll do it later...
In my case NO, I have a strong self-discipline, and anyway being sluggish means starting a diet: no work, no money, no food

In general, being a freelancer for me means having also a lot of things to do that I require effort because work is task No 1, I sometimes wake up at 5 am to work, because I want to go to the gym at 9....and at the end of the d
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Well at the beginning someone can think: Oh I'll do it later...
In my case NO, I have a strong self-discipline, and anyway being sluggish means starting a diet: no work, no money, no food

In general, being a freelancer for me means having also a lot of things to do that I require effort because work is task No 1, I sometimes wake up at 5 am to work, because I want to go to the gym at 9....and at the end of the day I realize how many activities I have "packed" in 24 hours....
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Marta Cervera Areny
Marta Cervera Areny
Spanyolország
Local time: 22:47
katalán - spanyol
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On the contrary!! Oct 11, 2010

I don't think a sluggish freelancer can survive!

Freelance job means you need to find your clients, do the job and do it well so the client is happy and keeps you sending more jobs. And nobody will do this for you!

If you're sluggish, none of this can happen.


 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugália
Local time: 21:47
Tag (2007 óta)
angol - portugál
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I am with Marta Oct 11, 2010

Marta Cervera Areny wrote:

I don't think a sluggish freelancer can survive!

Freelance job means you need to find your clients, do the job and do it well so the client is happy and keeps you sending more jobs. And nobody will do this for you!

If you're sluggish, none of this can happen.


On the contrary, it teaches you discipline, patience and time-management!


 
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