Poll: Have family or friends requested your services as a favor? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Have family or friends requested your services as a favor?".
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| It has happened, more than once or twice... | Nov 17, 2018 |
But not fairly often, though just by coincidence I’m translating a GCE certificate for a niece.
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Liena Vijupe 
Latvia
Local time: 20:28
Member (2014)
French to Latvian
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More than once or twice but not too often.
Some have offered to pay (I refused). It's usually either something small and easy or just asking for advice, I don't consider it as a service. I have also said no on a few occasions when I knew it would take too much time and effort.
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Once in a while. Small stuff, not thousands of words.
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Ana Vozone
Local time: 18:28
Member (2010)
English to Portuguese
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Family and friends have asked for my services, but have always offered to pay, which I have always refused.
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Ivana Kahle
Germany
Local time: 19:28
Member (2007)
German to Croatian
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| Yes, a couple of times | Nov 17, 2018 |
... and I was glad that I could help. I would do it again any time.
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Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 14:28
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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I have actually been quite lucky in that sense, or else my family and my friends are very reasonable people. I've had quite a few jobs ordered by family members and friends, always with a request for a quote and payments without much "crying".
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Mónica Algazi
Uruguay
Local time: 14:28
Member (2005)
English to Spanish
As a sworn translator, I am often asked to translate documents for friends or friends' children, and it is a pleasure to help whenever I can.
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| Friend/Colleague Who Did Pay Me | Nov 17, 2018 |
A former friend/colleague of mine once asked me to translate some sentences into Spanish so he could include them in a short story he was writing.
I suppose it was because he always referred to me as a "professional translator" (after listening to me read my work on multiple occasions) when he introduced me to other writers that he didn't think twice about paying me my minimum charge, and was the first to bring up the issue, when he asked for my services.
[Edited at 2018-11-1... See more A former friend/colleague of mine once asked me to translate some sentences into Spanish so he could include them in a short story he was writing.
I suppose it was because he always referred to me as a "professional translator" (after listening to me read my work on multiple occasions) when he introduced me to other writers that he didn't think twice about paying me my minimum charge, and was the first to bring up the issue, when he asked for my services.
[Edited at 2018-11-17 16:12 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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Ricki Farn
Germany
Local time: 19:28
English to German
| Yes, occasionally | Nov 17, 2018 |
... but more often they ask me to accept their parcels or open the door to their AirBnB guests. Every neighbour loves a work-from-home translator.
Next up: The tale of the digital barnacle, the lesser-known cousin of the digital nomad.
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DZiW (X)
Ukraine
English to Russian
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| Cooperativeness: yes, I'm useful | Nov 17, 2018 |
I can easily tell people from biz and from my people: they help me and I help them
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