Poll: As a freelancer, do you ever feel that you do have a boss? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "As a freelancer, do you ever feel that you do have a boss?".
This poll was originally submitted by John Cutler. View the poll results »
| | | | Mary Worby 
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:38
German to English
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I am my own boss. If I want to take time off, I can. I am not answerable to anyone. Except, perhaps, the customers!
| | | | | | Ashutosh Mitra
India
Local time: 01:08
Member (2011)
English to Hindi
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SITE LOCALIZER | yes on very few occasions.. | Mar 6, 2011 |
ProZ.com Staff wrote: This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "As a freelancer, do you ever feel that you do have a boss?". This poll was originally submitted by John Cutler. View the poll results »
When I felt being subordinate...when you come across illogical people, who don't want to listen...
[Edited at 2011-03-06 08:58 GMT]
[Edited at 2011-03-07 05:58 GMT]
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Simon Bruni
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:38
Member (2009)
Spanish to English
| You can try and be my boss but you will fail | Mar 6, 2011 |
I take it this poll is referring to agency PMs who treat their translators as though they were desperate scavengers who have merely had the good fortune to be blessed with a kind and generous (pfff) offer of paid work, whereupon we should prostrate ourselves before them and kiss their regal feet. I have in the past been guilty of meekly succumbing to these power-trippers but never again.
Cheers
Simon
[Edited at 2011-03-06 10:13 GMT]
| | | | | The end reader is the boss, that's what I feel. | Mar 6, 2011 |
Hi Friends,
I always feel that the end reader, for whom translation is meant, is my boss. Because, I need to make the translation in such a manner, that it accomodates everything of original text and try to make it interesting as much as possible.
Regards,
Prakash Sharma
Freelance Translator and Linguist (English Nepali/Hindi/Sanskrit)
| | | | neilmac
Spain
Local time: 21:38
Spanish to English
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| Ye, sometimes. | Mar 6, 2011 |
The client ... or maybe Hacienda...
| | | | Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 21:38
Member (2009)
English to German
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| Definitely no! | Mar 6, 2011 |
I had a boss for nearly 2 decades. We did get along very well, almost like professional "equals". But but still .. enough is enough.
The only boss-like one might be the customer. But that's a different story.
Happy Sunday.
[Edited at 2011-03-06 17:57 GMT]
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| NO!! Never, ever! | Mar 6, 2011 |
That's why I am a FREElancer
| | | | Henry Hinds
United States
Local time: 13:38
English to Spanish
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In memoriam
Or on second thought, make that a "yes". I have the toughest boss I could ever have, I see him in the mirror every morning. But he is the only one who can tell me what to do, no one else. My clients ask me what I can do for them, I tell them and then I go on to exceed their expectations; that is what the boss makes me do.
But the boss also lets me live life my way.
| | | | Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 21:38
Member (2009)
English to German
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| What's left to say? | Mar 6, 2011 |
Henry Hinds wrote:
Or on second thought, make that a "yes". I have the toughest boss I could ever have, I see him in the mirror every morning. But he is the only one who can tell me what to do, no one else. My clients ask me what I can do for them, I tell them and then I go on to exceed their expectations; that is what the boss makes me do.
But the boss also lets me live life my way.
You've said it all by speaking my mind. Thanks, Henry.
Enjoy life.
| | | | Allison Wright (X)
Portugal
Local time: 20:38
| No, but my feelings exactly. | Mar 6, 2011 |
Henry Hinds wrote:
Or on second thought, make that a "yes". I have the toughest boss I could ever have, I see him in the mirror every morning.
But the boss also lets me live life my way.
I have been heard to say on occasion that I "would never work for a boss like me".
Having said that, I do not believe I was ever as hard on any subordinates in the workplace as I am on myself, endless cups of coffee notwithstanding.
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Nicole Schnell
United States
Local time: 12:38
English to German
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In memoriam
Henry Hinds wrote:
Or on second thought, make that a "yes". I have the toughest boss I could ever have, I see him in the mirror every morning. But he is the only one who can tell me what to do, no one else. My clients ask me what I can do for them, I tell them and then I go on to exceed their expectations; that is what the boss makes me do.
But the boss also lets me live life my way.
| | | | Michael Harris
Germany
Local time: 21:38
Member (2006)
German to English
where should they come from?
| | | | | Each client becomes a temporary boss | Mar 8, 2011 |
I'd like so much to say that I am my own boss, but once I start working on a job, the client definitely becomes my "boss". I become very sensitive to whatever is asked for.
Just last week I was already working for a client and let myself be talked into accepting an extra 6,500 words to do in two days. I didn't know how to say "no". Actually, the 6,500 was less than what they asked me to take; I did talk them down. But it was a tricky text, and I ended up working through the night.... See more I'd like so much to say that I am my own boss, but once I start working on a job, the client definitely becomes my "boss". I become very sensitive to whatever is asked for.
Just last week I was already working for a client and let myself be talked into accepting an extra 6,500 words to do in two days. I didn't know how to say "no". Actually, the 6,500 was less than what they asked me to take; I did talk them down. But it was a tricky text, and I ended up working through the night.
This may be a hangover from working more than 30 years for bosses in offices. ▲ Collapse
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