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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 11:18
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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About the same Mar 31, 2020

I’ve just checked and regarding the number of projects it’s about the same, but I’m under the impression that I made less money. I’ll know the exact amount later today when I’ll issue my monthly invoices. As some of my big clients are shut down I’m expecting a downturn next month. We’ll see…

 
Elizabeth Tamblin
Elizabeth Tamblin  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:18
French to English
Much quieter Mar 31, 2020

Almost no work for me this month.

Michaël Massiah
Katarina Karanusic
 
Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 12:18
French to English
. Mar 31, 2020

About the same, but last year I went away on holiday for the last ten days, and this time work slowed down due, I expect, to the Covid19 lockdown. I work a lot in tourism and with events organisers and museums, they obviously aren't in need of much work for the moment

 
Ventnai
Ventnai  Identity Verified
Spain
Local time: 12:18
German to English
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About the same Mar 31, 2020

You should really ask tomorrow when I've done all my invoices and can make a direct comparison with previous years

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
Alexandra Speirs
Alexandra Speirs  Identity Verified
Local time: 12:18
Italian to English
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quieter in the last week Mar 31, 2020

I am about to deliver my last job.
Nothing on the horizon for the moment, maybe I can get some ironing done ....

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Emma Page
 
Emma Page
Emma Page
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:18
French to English
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Would love to see this every month Mar 31, 2020

COVID is obviously causing upheaval, this data matches my anecdotal understanding from peers (a minority are gaining work due to the situation, a lot of people have less work than usual but not a majority).

As an aside, I'm surprised that several commenters have said they will know how their march was "after invoicing today". You don't keep track of your income all the time?? I have an excel sheet which shows me my running total for the month and year, and I wouldn't know what to d
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COVID is obviously causing upheaval, this data matches my anecdotal understanding from peers (a minority are gaining work due to the situation, a lot of people have less work than usual but not a majority).

As an aside, I'm surprised that several commenters have said they will know how their march was "after invoicing today". You don't keep track of your income all the time?? I have an excel sheet which shows me my running total for the month and year, and I wouldn't know what to do without it...
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Carina Tschaitschmann
Andrew Morris
Sabrina Bruna
Jared Tabor
Rosalind Haigh
Angie Garbarino
Isabelle Bibloque
 
Thayenga
Thayenga  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 12:18
Member (2009)
English to German
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Much quieter Mar 31, 2020

March was basically a no-work month. Hopefully things will improve soon.

 
Kevin Fulton
Kevin Fulton  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 07:18
German to English
Slightly higher than last year Mar 31, 2020

But much higher compared to recent months. I also had a relatively slow Q4 in 2019.

 
Dan Lucas
Dan Lucas  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:18
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
Slightly better year on year Mar 31, 2020

ProZ.com Staff wrote:
This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "In comparison to last year, work-wise, my March was..."

Looks like sales were up 5-10% YoY. A change of that amount is just noise, really, given that orders are so lumpy, but I'm just glad that revenues are not massively down as they were in February.

Dan


Andrew Morris
 
Dan Lucas
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United Kingdom
Local time: 11:18
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
An idea is enough Mar 31, 2020

Emma Page wrote:
You don't keep track of your income all the time?? I have an excel sheet which shows me my running total for the month and year, and I wouldn't know what to do without it...

Provided that I have a sense of where I am, that's okay. I do track income, but as nearly all my revenue comes from overseas the calculations are complicated by forex and bank charges, so it's never exact anyway.

I find Excel a bit inflexible for my purposes. I have a tool that parses my project folder names and calculates a total for the month based on that, which is as much as I care to do.

Generally I don't slouch into action after I have imported finalised data from the bank into the accounts software at the beginning of the month and exported a file for my main tool to slice and dice.

That generates pretty charts showing precise monthly summaries for the preceding four years, cumulative year-to-date figures, year-on-year and month-on-month comparisons, monthly data chunked up to quarterly data, and so on.

Horses for courses.

Dan


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Angie Garbarino
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Local time: 12:18
Member (2003)
French to Italian
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Me too Mar 31, 2020

Emma Page wrote:
I have an excel sheet which shows me my running total for the month and year, and I wouldn't know what to do without it...

I agree with you I consider it very important, regarding the jobs in March, it was almost the same, but who knows for April?


Jennifer Caisley
 
Jennifer Caisley
Jennifer Caisley  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:18
Member (2019)
German to English
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I agree with Angie above - let's see what April brings! Mar 31, 2020

My March was actually well above the previous year - but the marked slowdown of the past week or so has me thinking that April will be a fraction of what it was in 2019.

As Covid-19 didn't start to have a major impact on many of my European clients, in particular, until mid-way through the month, it might be really interesting to re-run this poll next month and compare the results then!


Jared Tabor
Angie Garbarino
Aisha Maniar
 
Mario Freitas
Mario Freitas  Identity Verified
Brazil
Local time: 08:18
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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Quieter Mar 31, 2020

In the beginning of the month, it looked like it would be the same as last year. But as of the 20th, things started to slow down. It wasn't a bad month, just a bit below average. But I'm afraid of what's to come now...

 
Paul Dixon
Paul Dixon  Identity Verified
Brazil
Local time: 08:18
Portuguese to English
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Very bleak Mar 31, 2020

The situation here is very, very bad. The year was not too bad to start with but now with COVID19 things have got so bad that my biggest new job since the outbreak was only 700 words.
I don't want to bring politics into it, but there is a plan now for vertical isolation, by which only people at risk would be isolated and companies can get back to work. Despite the serious drawbacks that could arise (less isolation could mean more deaths), if some companies went back to work then, for trans
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The situation here is very, very bad. The year was not too bad to start with but now with COVID19 things have got so bad that my biggest new job since the outbreak was only 700 words.
I don't want to bring politics into it, but there is a plan now for vertical isolation, by which only people at risk would be isolated and companies can get back to work. Despite the serious drawbacks that could arise (less isolation could mean more deaths), if some companies went back to work then, for translators, things would get a bit better IMHO. But they can't get any worse...
Not sure what will happen as both possibilities have very serious side effects. If people return to work, less isolation could bring more deaths. If they don't, then the economy will collapse with millions unemployed and more deaths (from hunger).
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