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Poll: From where does the majority of your work come? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "From where does the majority of your work come?".
This poll was originally submitted by Paul Stevens
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This poll was originally submitted by Paul Stevens
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| Predominance of Europe... | Nov 4, 2008 |
Wow, that was a surprise!! But perhaps it will balance out a little after more people have responded.
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Αlban SHPΑTΑ 
United States
Member (2008)
English to Albanian
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| Good old Europe | Nov 4, 2008 |
Why not? Financially looking good. Population beats US by over 250%, and there are about 230 languages spoken here with an immense need to translate between them (with an emphasis on EU languages).
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Laureana Pavon
Uruguay
Local time: 10:46
Member (2007)
English to Spanish
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Though strangely enough I have many customers in countries where neither English nor Spanish (my source/target languages) are spoken, such as France and Germany.
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| US pollsters otherwise engaged? | Nov 4, 2008 |
This kind of poll may balance out as other time zones get going with their day, but on the other hand, many of our US colleagues may have important things to do today at the poll booths...
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wonita (X)
China
Local time: 09:46
I had no problem to work for clients on other continents if they were ready to pay decent European rates.
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Rebecca Garber
Local time: 09:46
Member (2005)
German to English
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Europe and North America. So I guess I'm Other for the day.
Happy voting to other US colleagues!
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Jon O (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:46
Dutch to English
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I've never had a job from outside of Europe... or even the EU as far as I remember...
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| Other--Caribbean | Nov 4, 2008 |
So I'm quibbling. I think I may be in the minority in that 90% of my work is local.
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Nigel Greenwood (X)
Spain
Local time: 15:46
Spanish to English
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| I voted South America | Nov 4, 2008 |
I have 1 very big South American client, ( so in size the majority is from there ). However, I do a lot of work for Europeans, ( I have more European clients ).
So, take your pick,
Nigel.
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| compare to living place | Nov 4, 2008 |
I think it would be interesting to compare the results of this poll to the results of another one, with the same response possibilities, but the question: Where do you live/work?
A least, I'm curious about it
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Laureana Pavon
Uruguay
Local time: 10:46
Member (2007)
English to Spanish
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MODERATOR
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Parrot
Spain
Local time: 15:46
Spanish to English
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| Biased question? | Nov 4, 2008 |
I kind of thought this depended on two underlying questions:
1. Where are languages most dispersed?
2. Where are the biggest concentrations of computers?
I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of translation going on elsewhere, but you have to be online to answer this.
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Amy Duncan (X)
Brazil
Local time: 10:46
Portuguese to English
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I'm amazed. I've only had one or two European clients since I began translating over a decade ago. Most of mine are in Brazil, and a few in the US and other places.
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| language pairs | Nov 4, 2008 |
I work in french to english. That may be why I don't get much from outside north america. Perhaps in EU they translate more from french to OTHER languages. However, the demand for french to english seems to be mostly a North American thing. I have gotten a few jobs from Europe, the majority of my work is local, provincial, from other provinces or from the US.
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