| Topic | Poster Replies (Views) Latest post |
| Poll: Do you think DeepL is something for human translators to worry about? ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... 6) | 83 (22,652) |
| Poll: Has a proofreader ever "ruined" a translation you've done? ( 1, 2, 3... 4) | 45 (7,425) |
| Can we have a poll to find out how translators are doing financially? ( 1, 2, 3, 4... 5) | 65 (8,633) |
| Poll: Do you feel some reviewers make changes to translations "just to change something"? ( 1, 2... 3) | 33 (9,924) |
| Poll: How many languages and dialects are spoken in your home country? ( 1, 2... 3) | 31 (6,479) |
| Poll: Do you speak any of these constructed languages? ( 1... 2) | 19 (4,865) |
| Poll: How many CAT tools do you use? ( 1... 2) | 20 (4,803) |
| Poll: How many hours per week do you actually spend working (translating, accounting, marketing, etc.)? ( 1, 2... 3) | 31 (8,712) |
| Off-topic: Personal poll for a Uni project: official translation assignments | 5 (1,110) |
| Poll: Do you live in your native country? ( 1... 2) | 21 (6,009) |
| Poll: Have you ever told a client you are not interested in continuing working with them? ( 1... 2) | 28 (10,462) |
| Poll: Freelancers, are you members of your local chamber of commerce? ( 1, 2... 3) | 33 (9,260) |
| Poll: What % of your freelance income goes to your rent or mortgage (home/office space)? ( 1... 2) | 19 (7,203) |
| Off-topic: Can we have new polls more often? | 4 (1,356) |
| Poll: To how many countries have you traveled? ( 1, 2... 3) | 43 (13,375) |
| Poll: Do you have cat and/or dog and/or other pet(s) ( 1, 2... 3) | 31 (13,525) |
| Poll: How do you usually unwind and keep fresh for work? ( 1... 2) | 15 (5,696) |
| Poll: Would you say your current clients are also your ideal clients? | 5 (2,765) |
| Poll: Do you ever follow up with clients who have not contacted you for work in a while? | 10 (4,029) |
| Poll: Have you ever refused to take on a project because of the payment method? | 14 (5,806) |
| Poll: What is your level of use of CAT tools? ( 1... 2) | 22 (9,385) |
| Poll: What percentage of your customers are not fluent in the target language? | 13 (4,503) |
| Off-topic: If you weren't a translator / interpreter, what would you like to be? ( 1, 2... 3) | 36 (12,582) |
| Are there any full time mum translator? How is your job survive the long summer vocation? | 4 (2,039) |
| Poll: How often do you look at the Visitors tab of your ProZ.com profile? ( 1... 2) | 24 (9,932) |
| Poll: Have you ever taken a vacation lasting longer than a month? ( 1... 2) | 18 (7,435) |
| How much time did it take you to get constant work when you started working on proz.com? | 1 (1,991) |
| Poll: At least 60% of freelancers say they started freelancing by choice. Are you one of them? ( 1, 2, 3... 4) | 45 (17,311) |
| Poll: Do you think it is important to work with more than one CAT tool to get more work? ( 1... 2) | 18 (7,379) |
| Poll: Do you apply higher rates for urgent/weekend work? ( 1... 2) | 17 (12,710) |
| Poll: How much of your income are you able to put into savings? | 11 (4,610) |
| Poll: Have you experienced payment-related issues when using a client's translation management system? ( 1... 2) | 18 (7,045) |
| Poll: A reasonable cost for errors and omissions, liability and personal property loss insurance: ( 1... 2) | 15 (6,869) |
| Poll: In your opinion, which is the ideal age to become a freelance translator? | 14 (4,881) |
| Poll: Do you ever think in your source language(s)? | 13 (4,338) |
| Poll: If you had the choice, when booking a service, which would you prefer? | 4 (2,687) |
| Poll: Has it ever taken you a few months or even a year to send in an invoice? ( 1... 2) | 18 (7,047) |
| Poll: Your client pays you twice for the same job. What do you do? ( 1, 2... 3) | 30 (12,155) |
| Poll: Has GDPR changed the way you do business? | 11 (5,471) |
| Poll: How booked up are you for the coming month? | 13 (4,603) |
| Poll: Have you ever translated the same sentence the same way for two different clients? ( 1... 2) | 18 (7,144) |
| Poll: Do you catch yourself paraphrasing sentences when reading a text in your source language(s)? | 7 (3,313) |
| Poll: Have you ever been asked to edit/proofread a text which you translated for different client? | 8 (3,641) |
| Poll: Have you ever mixed up the deadlines for different projects? | 9 (3,683) |
| Poll: Do you think your translation speed has improved over the last three years? | 12 (4,342) |
| Poll: How much of your translation-related research involves Wikipedia? ( 1... 2) | 15 (5,408) |
| Poll: My favorite dictionary is: | 7 (3,325) |
| Poll: Do you engage in small talk with some of your clients? | 11 (4,055) |
| Poll: Most of the texts you translate belong to... ( 1... 2) | 16 (6,780) |
| Poll: You accept a new client's job, and then find they have poor feedback from previous translators. You: ( 1... 2) | 17 (6,893) |