Poll: How does your family influence your work-life balance as a translator? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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| | | | Lieven Malaise
Belgium
Local time: 13:29
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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Having 4 teenage children and a dog and being a single parent my family obviously "influences" my work-life balance. But since I have to do the housekeeping every single day I'm a lot "around" and working from home I'm always "available". Moreover I mostly don't work during the weekends, so the balance is basically pretty good.
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I’m a widow and I have three children, but when I started freelancing (at first part-time) they were not small kids anymore (my youngest was 10) and they all knew what my work meant for all of us as a family. Still remember my eldest son whispering, sometimes even shouting, to his sisters: “Please be quiet, Mummy is working…”. Now my children are all grown-up and they have long left the nest…
| | | | | Working at Home Is a Luxury | Sep 30, 2024 |
Working at home, I have no commute, and no set hours, which makes helping the kids out and running them around a heck of a lot easier. It's a luxury I cherish every day.
If I were an in situ employee, I don't know how I'd do it.
What's more, in Spain domestic help, which we have, is relatively affordable, so I feel really fortunate to be doing what I am doing, and where I'm doing it.
I have friends and family making a heck of lot more money than me, and in wealthier countries... See more Working at home, I have no commute, and no set hours, which makes helping the kids out and running them around a heck of a lot easier. It's a luxury I cherish every day.
If I were an in situ employee, I don't know how I'd do it.
What's more, in Spain domestic help, which we have, is relatively affordable, so I feel really fortunate to be doing what I am doing, and where I'm doing it.
I have friends and family making a heck of lot more money than me, and in wealthier countries...but without my quality of life.
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| Working at home | Sep 30, 2024 |
One of the unintended consequences of Covid-19 is that today no one looks astonished when they learn that we work at home, without a boss, without rushing to catch public transport or without traffic jams...
| | | | | work a lot, life .... a bit less | Sep 30, 2024 |
I was going to write a long post full of negative sides.
Let's make it simple: working from home makes people think you have a lot of free time and you love spending your free time running after errands or the members of the family's needs.
so there is not a work-life balance: you work to feed your family and you have to spend your free time taking care of their needs.
| | | | Kay Denney 
France
Local time: 13:29
French to English
I have the house to myself often enough to get all my work done. My children are grown and have flown, my partner still goes to work even if he's reduced his hours. He's come to understand that he needs to be quiet near me when he's on the phone.
If necessary I could turn one of the empty bedrooms into an office, but I prefer having my desk in a corner of the living room where I can see who comes in and out of the house, and up or down the stairs, as well as having a gorgeous view of my f... See more I have the house to myself often enough to get all my work done. My children are grown and have flown, my partner still goes to work even if he's reduced his hours. He's come to understand that he needs to be quiet near me when he's on the phone.
If necessary I could turn one of the empty bedrooms into an office, but I prefer having my desk in a corner of the living room where I can see who comes in and out of the house, and up or down the stairs, as well as having a gorgeous view of my favourite rosebush in the garden. I have only once had to go elsewhere to work and that was when I was asked to do a rush job on a Saturday, paid double. ▲ Collapse
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