| Pages in topic: [1 2] > | Poll: Professionally, what motivates you? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Professionally, what motivates you?".
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| | | | neilmac
Spain
Local time: 06:14
Spanish to English
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| Marjolein Snippe 
Netherlands
Local time: 06:14
Member (2012)
English to Dutch
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| payment and recognition | Mar 18, 2019 |
I am more happy to accept lower rates from people/agencies I enjoy working with, which is usually because of the recognition and the friendly/personal communication.
| | | | Ricki Farn
Germany
Local time: 06:14
English to German
| A cluster of motivations | Mar 18, 2019 |
1. Recognition from client, which
2. is reflected in adequate payment and
3. in a generally respectful tone of conversation (it doesn't have to be chatty, one of my favourite clients is a minimalist with words, but the right words).
4. Texts that are pleasant in form and content.
5. Knowing that my translations will be presented on/in a well-made website or file that will be enjoyable to read.
Forgot anything?
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| Spreading happiness and goodness around the world | Mar 18, 2019 |
This is my second motivation.
My first one is money.
I've got this 80-cm long wooden beauty I started 7 years ago, which I'd like to finish before I am blind and arthritic. I see her and her bare masts every day in my office, and I need less than 200 hours to install riggings, deadeyes, ratlines, blocks and sails.
But professional work is always in the way to pay my monthly bills.
Philippe
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Why can't I choose all options?
[Edited at 2019-03-18 08:52 GMT]
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I think what drives me the most is the challenge of solving challenging and fascinating linguistic problems.
The money is nice, but I could have chosen a different career when I was younger if I hadn't had such a compulsion to play with language.
| | | | Vera Schoen
Sweden
Local time: 06:14
Member (2008)
German to Swedish
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Earning a decent living and being proud of my work.
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Ivana Kahle
Germany
Local time: 06:14
Member (2007)
German to Croatian
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Being able to be a digital nomad
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Being independet, having fun working with languages and loving my job very, very much is why I'm motivated. No matter how many negative experiences I had regarding clients or money, I clung to my job because I really enjoy it.
[Edited at 2019-03-18 10:14 GMT]
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Ricki Farn wrote:
1. Recognition from client, which
2. is reflected in adequate payment and
Recognition of the quality of one's work and adequate rates go hand in hand
| | | | | friendliness | Mar 18, 2019 |
Marjolein Snippe wrote:
I am more happy to accept lower rates from people/agencies I enjoy working with, which is usually because of the recognition and the friendly/personal communication.
Friendliness is not always a good sign: as a rule, swindlers and non payers are always very friendly
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 06:14
Member (2009)
English to German
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It's a combination of payment, recognition, and, above all, loving what I'm doing.
| | | | | Many Reasons | Mar 18, 2019 |
Of course, being paid is... essential. We all have bills to pay! But developing good relationships with clients, agencies and peers is, in my opinion, more important, even if that could mean lower rates. After all, good relationships mean more contracts.
Another reason would be the satisfaction and pride of a job well done.
| | | | | Seeing My Name In Print As The Translator | Mar 18, 2019 |
Other than the pure pleasure and joy that I experience as I carry out my work as a literary translator, I enjoy seeing my name in print on my books' title pages, and most recently, on the cover, too.
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