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Where is professional translation going when you read job offers like this one?
Thread poster: milena ferrante
Pierre Bancov Local time: 18:37 Member (2008) Japanese to French + ...
Can we afford a sort of hard barrier of entry though?
Jun 19, 2018
I've been on these forums for years but it's always the same problem. I've taken the time to turn down some people in the past but I still get thousands of emails per year asking for cheap jobs. The larger question is, should we have a hidden barrier? Like you're an agency, you post a job offer and the system simply ditches it if it doesn't fit minimum requirements, banning your account after a certain number of rejected posts. That's the only thing that would reduce the amount of e-... See more
I've been on these forums for years but it's always the same problem. I've taken the time to turn down some people in the past but I still get thousands of emails per year asking for cheap jobs. The larger question is, should we have a hidden barrier? Like you're an agency, you post a job offer and the system simply ditches it if it doesn't fit minimum requirements, banning your account after a certain number of rejected posts. That's the only thing that would reduce the amount of e-mails I get every day.
As long as we'll get those annoying "work for cheap or else" offers, I guess we'll have to simply ignore them. But it is disheartening to have to endure them day in and day out. ▲ Collapse
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Daniel Frisano Italy Local time: 18:37 Member (2008) English to Italian + ...
Here
Jun 19, 2018
milena ferrante wrote:
Where is professional translation going when you read job offers like this one?
Towards a free market where decent goods and services can be produced at very low prices by underpaid individuals, more or less like the very same device at least 90% of us is using right now to read this thread.
We will all be poor. Run!
Michele Fauble
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Pierre Bancov wrote: That's the only thing that would reduce the amount of e-mails I get every day.
You could turn off the option to receive job notifications...
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Tom in London United Kingdom Local time: 17:37 Member (2008) Italian to English
set a limit
Jun 19, 2018
Pierre Bancov wrote:
..... I still get thousands of emails per year asking for cheap jobs...
I don't get very many at all. Maybe 10 per year. So this puzzles me. Is there something in the labyrinth of settings ("job notification settings" maybe?) where I had previously set some kind of limit on the rates I was prepared to accept?
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milena ferrante Local time: 18:37 Member (2006) English to Italian + ...
TOPIC STARTER
Rates need to consider taxes
Jun 19, 2018
The problem in Italy are really high taxes. I should live in India, I know...but I love my country. So maybe I will be poorer but happier...
However, I am not discussing rates.
I am discussing the fact that a serious platform should not allow posts like those: be perfect for very little money. If you pay little money, as you said, you might be allowed NOT to be perfect.
There are plenty of other sites for those posts.
Mirko Mainardi
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