Poll: If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle? ناشر الموضوع: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle?".
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| | | | | Indefinitely... | Sep 9, 2025 |
I don’t plan to retire, but I can live comfortably on my pension…
| | | | | I could live comfortably well. | Sep 9, 2025 |
I work at home, live with my parents and have saved some money, so I could live very well for more than a year.
| | | | Zea_Mays 
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| your clients do online research about you | Sep 10, 2025 |
Oscar Núñez Alfaro wrote:
I work at home, live with my parents and have saved some money, so I could live very well for more than a year.
A good reason for a potential client reading this to pay you a poor rate.
Folks, don't share private information in public forums!
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IrinaN (X)
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| Proz seems to be incurable | Sep 10, 2025 |
Zea_Mays wrote:
Folks, don't share private information in public forums!
I'm done being nice or humorous.
What is wrong with that obsessed, ill-bred mind that keeps pushing unrelated yet tacky, offensive and dangerously intrusive polls about our private and financial circumstances - passwords, savings etc? Didn't your parents teach you differently?
I'm proposing a counter poll:
How many reliable, human-oriented, decently paying clients did you obtain in 2025 via Proz directory:
One
More than one
Zero
Let's see the real side of Proz, something relevant for a change.
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Oscar Núñez Alfaro wrote:
I work at home, live with my parents and have saved some money, so I could live very well for more than a year.
With all due respect, but then it's not you but your parents who maintain your lifestyle.
| | | | | got to keep the nose to the grindstone | Sep 10, 2025 |
IrinaN wrote:
I'm proposing a counter poll:
How many reliable, human-oriented, decently paying clients did you obtain in 2025 via Proz directory:
One
More than one
Zero
Let's see the real side of Proz, something relevant for a change.
ZERO!
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IrinaN wrote:
Zea_Mays wrote:
Folks, don't share private information in public forums!
I'm done being nice or humorous.
What is wrong with that obsessed, ill-bred mind that keeps pushing unrelated yet tacky, offensive and dangerously intrusive polls about our private and financial circumstances - passwords, savings etc? Didn't your parents teach you differently?
I'm proposing a counter poll:
How many reliable, human-oriented, decently paying clients did you obtain in 2025 via Proz directory:
One
More than one
Zero
Let's see the real side of Proz, something relevant for a change.
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| Thanks for your opinions! | Sep 10, 2025 |
Alexandra Villeminey wrote:
Oscar Núñez Alfaro wrote:
I work at home, live with my parents and have saved some money, so I could live very well for more than a year.
With all due respect, but then it's not you but your parents who maintain your lifestyle.
I am grateful for that! To be honest, I work and charge a good rate for my services, and I was glad to come back home and help my parents as they do with me.
Thank you for your honesty, Alexandra and Zea!
| | | | | What does "all work" mean? | Sep 11, 2025 |
Is it the grimmest scenario? Let's say I'm a freelancer, and all my customers have abandoned me for good (or in my case, my employer has shown me the door, because, in fact, my workload over the last few months has been very scanty but I've been receiving my pay anyway). I'm back on the job market, expecting as I may well be to land a new job within weeks. No big deal, my lifestyle won't suffer much. And all I keep hearing is "No!" All doors closed forever. I take out a loan to pay for vocationa... See more Is it the grimmest scenario? Let's say I'm a freelancer, and all my customers have abandoned me for good (or in my case, my employer has shown me the door, because, in fact, my workload over the last few months has been very scanty but I've been receiving my pay anyway). I'm back on the job market, expecting as I may well be to land a new job within weeks. No big deal, my lifestyle won't suffer much. And all I keep hearing is "No!" All doors closed forever. I take out a loan to pay for vocational training, use portions of the money to pay my bills and buy food and other portions to repay the loan itself—all to no avail. No jobs for me as it I were a criminal with a serious background. So, is the whole thing just a way to find out how many weeks', months', or years' worth of savings I have? Well, I'm not telling you ▲ Collapse
| | | | Gregor Trebec
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| a month or so... | Sep 11, 2025 |
Not much, a month or so... I am on invalidity pension which is ridicously low.
| | | | Tom in London
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| Already happened | Sep 11, 2025 |
ProZ.com Staff wrote:
This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "If you suddenly stopped receiving all work, how long could you maintain your current lifestyle?". View the poll results »
In my case that has already happened and I have resigned myself to it.
Fortunately due to having no dependents, no debts, having worked hard in the good years, and having (just) enough pension income to cover my regular outgoings, I'll be OK. I have always had a frugal lifestyle and I don't intend to suddenly splurge on expensive holidays, cars, etc.
But I appreciate that others here have been totally or heavily reliant on translation as their only source of income, have dependents or other obligations, and have not been able to make provision for a rainy day and.....
Here's that rainy day. And the song, interpreted by a great interpreter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oarJMhtjMJs&list=RDoarJMhtjMJs&start_radio=1
[Edited at 2025-09-11 07:45 GMT]
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Daryo
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| True, but only to some extent | Sep 12, 2025 |
Zea_Mays wrote:
Oscar Núñez Alfaro wrote:
I work at home, live with my parents and have saved some money, so I could live very well for more than a year.
A good reason for a potential client reading this to pay you a poor rate.
Folks, don't share private information in public forums!
You could also see it as an argument for: don’t bother me with your silly rates, I can do nicely even without you - and mean it. So that bottom feeders move on to easier targets and leave you alone.
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