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Poll: How many projects did you complete last year? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Mary Worby 
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:34
German to English
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I have no idea, I didn't count!
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Julian Holmes
Japan
Local time: 23:34
Member (2011)
Japanese to English
Have no idea and please define what a 'project' is? This might be anything over 50,000 source characters to me. Remember that I work from Japanese to English. 
[Edited at 2016-04-24 02:43 GMT]
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| Other (is project the same as job?) | Apr 23, 2016 |
Last year, I completed 159 jobs (from job 7585 on the 5th January until job 7744 on the 18th December) ranging from 1,555 to 271,875 words...
[Edited at 2016-04-23 09:14 GMT]
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 16:34
Spanish to English
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I'm afraid I haven't the foggiest. I do things on a need-to-know basis and I have no idea why I would need to know this kind of information. I suppose I could trawl through all my folders for 2015 and find out, if I really wanted to.
Here's a question "right back at ya". Who (TF) wants to know?
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But most of them were over 10,000 words and several were 50,000 words. In yesterday's poll I voted that my ideal project size is 14,000 to 20,000, which is what I'm most used to.
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Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:34
Russian to English
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In memoriam
But I did a lot of work on two novels, neither of which I completed during the year, so as others have implied, number of jobs done bears little relation to amount of work done.
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can't say the exact number... but about 200-240
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170 jobs, to be precise. I can find out easily because I number my invoices with the year, followed by my own reference number (e.g. 2015/170).
However, as others have said, the size of these jobs varied from tiny to huge, so the actual number of jobs isn't especially meaningful.
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Ilan Rubin (X)
Russian Federation
Local time: 17:34
Russian to English
| Utterly pointless question | Apr 23, 2016 |
May as well ask what our favourite colour is, frankly
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Balasubramaniam L.
India
Local time: 20:04
Member (2006)
English to Hindi
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SITE LOCALIZER
I only count the dollars (or the rupees).
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Sheila Wilson
Spain
Local time: 15:34
Member (2007)
English
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| First, define "project" | Apr 23, 2016 |
One client sends texts - often of less than 200 words - several times a week, sometimes several times a day. Then there was the book, for editing rather than translating but still a long job. Is each one classed equally as a project? Seems a bit unscientific and of little use statistically.
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 16:34
Member (2009)
English to German
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Frankly, I don't know. Counting my invoices doesn't help either, because some of my clients prefer bi-monthly or monthly invoices regardless of how many jobs they've sent me during that period.
Even if I counted all files, would it be fair/accurate to include all those 3 - 7 words' "projects"? I don't think so.
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Just knew into this Online translation but on my Onsite translation of Somali to English I did more. I will answer this question next year.
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Ventnai
Spain
Local time: 16:34
German to English
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No idea. I don't count them. They vary from a few words to thousands and I bill my clients for all their different translations at the end of the month, not separately. An invoice may contain one translation or twenty.
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