Poll: How long is your normal working day (outside of the pressure of a rush job)? ناشر الموضوع: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "How long is your normal working day (outside of the pressure of a rush job)?".
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| | | | Mary Worby 
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Local time: 19:23
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My working day is governed by school hours, so starts when the school bus leaves our drive at 08:30 and ends when it deposits my son back into my care at 15:30!
| | | | neilmac
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Local time: 20:23
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Usually around 8 hours on average, depending on workload. It depends if you count administrative tasks, which take me forever to do, rather than translation work per se. The other day it took me almost 2 hours to prepare 3 invoices ...
| | | | Interlangue (X)
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Local time: 20:23
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| from 6.00 to 18.00 | Jun 27, 2010 |
that includes a ±30-minute lunch break though
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Very interesting poll, thank you!
In my case, it completely depends on work load.... My working hours are all over the place. Sometimes, I finish as late as 2 or 3am, especially when there is a bit time difference with my clients. I am working on trying to put some balance into my schedule.
| | | | Trudy Peters
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Local time: 14:23
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| What's a normal work day? :-) | Jun 27, 2010 |
What's a "normal" work day?
| | | | Richard Boulter
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| Two points (caveats) | Jun 27, 2010 |
First, my day is usually broken up by other commitments, particularly in volunteer cultural support in the community. So this is a total of actual production working time throughout a 24-hour period. I like to sleep occasionally, too.
Second, this is production work time, when I have the work. If I counted contacting new clients, promotional activities, study time and professional correspondence the numbers would ... See more First, my day is usually broken up by other commitments, particularly in volunteer cultural support in the community. So this is a total of actual production working time throughout a 24-hour period. I like to sleep occasionally, too.
Second, this is production work time, when I have the work. If I counted contacting new clients, promotional activities, study time and professional correspondence the numbers would be much higher. In my own mind, I include 'administrative/billing' tasks in 'production time'; this is a business.
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| | | | Jenn Mercer
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Local time: 14:23
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| Around 8, but who's counting? | Jun 27, 2010 |
My best strategy seems to be a morning session, an afternoon session, and an evening session. I aim for a certain amount of productivity per day rather than a set amount of hours. After a while, my brain becomes a gooey mass, completely unsuitable for deep thinking. There is no point in putting in hours at that point.
During crunch time the breaks are shorter, and when the deadlines are light I might skip the evening session. I enjoy being able to set my own hours and the breaks ar... See more My best strategy seems to be a morning session, an afternoon session, and an evening session. I aim for a certain amount of productivity per day rather than a set amount of hours. After a while, my brain becomes a gooey mass, completely unsuitable for deep thinking. There is no point in putting in hours at that point.
During crunch time the breaks are shorter, and when the deadlines are light I might skip the evening session. I enjoy being able to set my own hours and the breaks are often filled with activities such as, depending on the season, playing uno with my daughter or picking her up from school.
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| Less than 8 hours | Jun 27, 2010 |
Not I used to.
I worked 12 hours normal. But not any more.
I am cutting down jobs as I need to priotize what is valuable to me. Life is too short to ignore other imperatives
| | | | Michael Harris
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Local time: 20:23
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| I am one of the few | Jun 27, 2010 |
At least 12 hours a da, if not 14. Just too much to do, with an hors lunch break. Its not only translating, its also all of the other stuff like writting invoices, and loads of other office work which also hasto be done, but like Jean said, "who is counting?"
| | | | Terejimenez
Local time: 13:23
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احياء لذكرى | From 12 to 14 ! | Jun 28, 2010 |
As Mike stated, this includes the time for replying e-mails and accounting tasks.
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6am - 8pm.
yeah obviously this includes: lunch, picking up my son from school, some sigarettes.
My working day is not only translation, I teach (a couple of hours 4 days a week) so I have to go and teach, prepare lessons, evaluate exams.
so, all the work related activities take 14 hours a day.
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John Cutler
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Trudy Peters wrote: What's a "normal" work day?
I couldn't agree more.
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