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Poll: How many projects did you complete last year?
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Apr 23, 2016

This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "How many projects did you complete last year?".

This poll was originally submitted by Dmitrie Highduke. View the poll results »



 
Mary Worby
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I have no idea, I didn't count!

 
Julian Holmes
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Have no idea and please define what a 'project' is? This might be anything over 50,000 source characters to me. Remember that I work from Japanese to English.

[Edited at 2016-04-24 02:43 GMT]


 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Other (is project the same as job?) Apr 23, 2016

Last year, I completed 159 jobs (from job 7585 on the 5th January until job 7744 on the 18th December) ranging from 1,555 to 271,875 words...

[Edited at 2016-04-23 09:14 GMT]


 
neilmac
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I'm afraid I haven't the foggiest. I do things on a need-to-know basis and I have no idea why I would need to know this kind of information. I suppose I could trawl through all my folders for 2015 and find out, if I really wanted to.

Here's a question "right back at ya". Who (TF) wants to know?


 
Muriel Vasconcellos (X)
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< 100 Apr 23, 2016

But most of them were over 10,000 words and several were 50,000 words. In yesterday's poll I voted that my ideal project size is 14,000 to 20,000, which is what I'm most used to.

 
Jack Doughty
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< 100 Apr 23, 2016

But I did a lot of work on two novels, neither of which I completed during the year, so as others have implied, number of jobs done bears little relation to amount of work done.

 
Gianluca Marras
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101-300 Apr 23, 2016

can't say the exact number... but about 200-240

 
Jennifer Forbes
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170 Apr 23, 2016

170 jobs, to be precise. I can find out easily because I number my invoices with the year, followed by my own reference number (e.g. 2015/170).
However, as others have said, the size of these jobs varied from tiny to huge, so the actual number of jobs isn't especially meaningful.


 
Ilan Rubin (X)
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Utterly pointless question Apr 23, 2016

May as well ask what our favourite colour is, frankly

 
Balasubramaniam L.
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Don't know Apr 23, 2016

I only count the dollars (or the rupees).

 
Sheila Wilson
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First, define "project" Apr 23, 2016

One client sends texts - often of less than 200 words - several times a week, sometimes several times a day. Then there was the book, for editing rather than translating but still a long job. Is each one classed equally as a project? Seems a bit unscientific and of little use statistically.

 
Thayenga
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Other Apr 23, 2016

Frankly, I don't know. Counting my invoices doesn't help either, because some of my clients prefer bi-monthly or monthly invoices regardless of how many jobs they've sent me during that period.

Even if I counted all files, would it be fair/accurate to include all those 3 - 7 words' "projects"? I don't think so.

[Edited at 2016-04-23 17:11 GMT]


 
Hussein Dayow Idow
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<100 Apr 23, 2016

Just knew into this Online translation but on my Onsite translation of Somali to English I did more. I will answer this question next year.

 
Ventnai
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No idea Apr 23, 2016

No idea. I don't count them. They vary from a few words to thousands and I bill my clients for all their different translations at the end of the month, not separately. An invoice may contain one translation or twenty.

 
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