| Pages in topic: [1 2] > | Poll: Where do you work most often? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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| | | Only at home | Dec 28, 2016 |
in my own private SOHO (small office home office)
I have desktop PCs, not laptops, which means I'm restricted regarding where I can work, anyway, and sometimes contracts with my customers specifically state that I do their work only at my registered work address for security reasons.
This is quite fine with me because I want to completely forget about work when I leave the office and go outside.
Glad we have an actual name to a poll this time. I hope Anonymous<... See more in my own private SOHO (small office home office)
I have desktop PCs, not laptops, which means I'm restricted regarding where I can work, anyway, and sometimes contracts with my customers specifically state that I do their work only at my registered work address for security reasons.
This is quite fine with me because I want to completely forget about work when I leave the office and go outside.
Glad we have an actual name to a poll this time. I hope Anonymous has gone on a long holiday.  ▲ Collapse
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To translate I prefer to sit at my desk in my little cozy study , surrounded by dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference books, but for revision/proofreading (my work or others’ work) my long and large dining table will serve as work desk or weather permitting I’ll enjoy my garden table on the terrace…
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Spain
Local time: 05:28
Spanish to English
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| Shared purpose room at home | Dec 28, 2016 |
One corner of my open-plan living room-kitchen is my main "office space". There's a fully-functioning backup PC in the spare room too, but I mostly use that as a radio player...
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| my home office | Dec 28, 2016 |
I have a room where I work, and I work only in that room and that room is only for working (or relaxing with a comfortable armchair and my music)
Now I share it with my 8-year-old son, who does his homework here with me.
But he just uses one of the desks and my old computer.
| | | | mona elshazly 
Egypt
Local time: 06:28
Member (2016)
Italian to Arabic
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| In an office | Dec 28, 2016 |
I sometimes work from office and sometimes from home.
| | | | Reed James
Chile
Local time: 01:28
Member (2005)
Spanish to English
| A translator's home is his castle | Dec 28, 2016 |
I work at my home office. I have one big new computer in front of me and a smaller, older one to the right, both PCs.
I should mention that I keep the door closed-much like the drawbridge of a castle. If visitors/intruders do not have a legitimate reason for entering, they fall into the moat!
| | | | | Purpose-built office | Dec 28, 2016 |
But increasingly also in my car as I ferry teenagers around their various pursuits.
Forget the Lincoln Lawyer, here's the Toyota Translator.
Although I mostly use the Lamborghini, natch.
[Edited at 2016-12-28 11:24 GMT]
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Luiz Barucke
Brazil
Local time: 01:28
Member (2013)
Spanish to Portuguese
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| Home office and a cafe | Dec 28, 2016 |
Most of the time, I work in my home office, but I take my laptop to a cafe 1-3 times a week for some hours to change the setting around.
| | | | KKastenhuber
Austria
Local time: 05:28
Russian to German
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| Office away from home | Dec 28, 2016 |
I rent a room at an office I share with another company. Wasn't sure about the investment initially, but couldn't be happier now (and it's been 1.5 years already).
| | | | | I call it my cage, but the door is always open! | Dec 28, 2016 |
Teresa Borges wrote:
To translate I prefer to sit at my desk in my little cozy study , surrounded by dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference books…
I prefer the big desktop computer and my good office chair. There are fine views of the sunset at that time of day, and the kitchen is only a few paces away when I need some coffee or company.
| | | | Mario Chavez (X)
Local time: 23:28
English to Spanish
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| A pleasant thought | Dec 28, 2016 |
Gianluca Marras wrote:
I have a room where I work, and I work only in that room and that room is only for working (or relaxing with a comfortable armchair and my music)
Now I share it with my 8-year-old son, who does his homework here with me.
But he just uses one of the desks and my old computer.
Thanks, Gianluca. I could picture the whole thing and I don't even have children"
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Mario Chavez (X)
Local time: 23:28
English to Spanish
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Reed James wrote:
I work at my home office. I have one big new computer in front of me and a smaller, older one to the right, both PCs.
I should mention that I keep the door closed-much like the drawbridge of a castle. If visitors/intruders do not have a legitimate reason for entering, they fall into the moat!
A moat with crocodiles, piranhas and the like?
Please say yes!
| | | | Mario Chavez (X)
Local time: 23:28
English to Spanish
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| Pleasant comments | Dec 28, 2016 |
I've enjoyed some of the comments: a translator's home office is his (her) castle is one of my favorites.
Starting last September, I had to adjust my working habits due to the start of my PhD's first semester. Working on translations in my MacBook Pro in my rented university room was a peach. The only thing I couldn't do properly was dictation (using Nuance's program and a crappy headset and mike). Other than that, a chair made comfier with the aid of a cheap 4-euro cushion, music s... See more I've enjoyed some of the comments: a translator's home office is his (her) castle is one of my favorites.
Starting last September, I had to adjust my working habits due to the start of my PhD's first semester. Working on translations in my MacBook Pro in my rented university room was a peach. The only thing I couldn't do properly was dictation (using Nuance's program and a crappy headset and mike). Other than that, a chair made comfier with the aid of a cheap 4-euro cushion, music streaming from iTunes and my 17-inch laptop were a pretty good combination, paired (definitely!) with a speedy Internet connection (30-40 MB).
I'm writing these lines from this office now. Wait, now I can't insert pictures?
Come March 2017, however, I'll be back on the road with one of my laptops.
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| | | | | Home office in theory | Dec 28, 2016 |
But I'm flexible and adapt to the seasons (my office is too warm in the summer - and right now, I'm getting ready to repaint it).
Frequently I'll start my day in the kitchen. Answering emails after my morning coffee, and then move when I get restless. My home office has a bigger screen and wireless extra keyboards, which is to prefer over my laptop alone, but then again, I don't want to get so comfy I can't pick up and travel while still working at least part of the day. I'll be "on the r... See more But I'm flexible and adapt to the seasons (my office is too warm in the summer - and right now, I'm getting ready to repaint it).
Frequently I'll start my day in the kitchen. Answering emails after my morning coffee, and then move when I get restless. My home office has a bigger screen and wireless extra keyboards, which is to prefer over my laptop alone, but then again, I don't want to get so comfy I can't pick up and travel while still working at least part of the day. I'll be "on the road" for at least 7 weeks in 2017, and will only have my laptop and whatever desk I find where I am. ▲ Collapse
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