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Polls for Translators

Poll questions
	What is the worst time-waster?
	If you work at a laptop, do you usually use touchpad or mouse?
	Do you know that defrauding laborers of their wages is one of the 4 sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance?
	Where are you located?
	Would you also like to receive job notifications by RSS (in addition to e-mail)?
	In your opinion, inflation in your country is:
	If you run a translation agency, do you ever outsource / subcontract your projects to other translation agencies?
	Do you use moneybookers?
	Do you use Google Checkout?
	How many weeks of vacations do you take per year?
	What do you like the most about TranslationDirectory.com?
	Do you celebrate Christmas?
	Which one of the following translation portals emails you the largest number of job notifications?
	Which one of the following sites has the most appealing color scheme?
	How old were you when you earned your first money translating?
	Do you charge a fine (interest) fee for every day of payment delay?
	What is your favorite vacations time?
	Do you have licensed SDL Trados software installed at your computer?
	Are you a translator or an interpreter?
	Do you have TranslationDirectory.com bookmarked in your browser?
	Did you read a lot when you were a child?
	Have you always dreamt to become a translator?
	Do you plan to be a freelance translator for the rest of your life?
	Is it necessary to learn translation theory in order to become a good translator?
	Will human translation be entirely replaced by machine translation in the future?
	On what percentage of your work do you benefit (in time and/or money) from using translation memory tools?
	Do you have savings?
	What translators’ clients are more demanding?
	Do you prefer to receive large or small translation projects?
	Have you ever worked as an in-house translator or interpreter?
	Do you prefer to subscribe to newsletters by e-mail or rss?
	Have you ever hired a debt collection agency?
	Would you go abroad for 1 to 12 months to temporarily work as an in-house translator?
	Do you listen to music while translating?
	How many children do you have?
	Do you know that the Bible is the most popular book in the world?
	Are you single or married?
	What is the purpose of your life?
	What is the best country to live in?
	Do you ever translate after midnight?
	Do you regularly participate in online forums for translators?
	How many hours per night do you sleep (in average)?
	How many hours per day do you work (in average)?
	What is the most reliable way to save your earnings?
	What is your average per word rate, EUR?
	How many foreign countries have you visited?
	What stops you from launching your own translation agency?
	What percentage of your work do you get from job sites such as ProZ, TranslatorsCafe etc?
	If you are a paid member of a translation portal (ProZ.com, TranslatorsCafe.com, TraduGuide.com, TranslatorsBase.com etc) - are you happy with your paid membership?
	What do you spend the most of your working time for?
	How many clients have you worked for as a freelance translator?
	When will the financial and economic crisis hit its bottom?
	Do you use glossary tools that are not Excel (such as Multiterm)?
	Do you create/maintain glossaries?
	Are you a paying member of a translators association?
	How much have you spent for all software on your computer?
	Do you subscribe to RSS feeds?
	How much did you pay for your computer? (Not including special software and peripherals)
	What operating system do you mainly work with?
	Do you use cracked (pirated) software?
	Do you regret purchasing your CAT tool?
	How many clients have you worked for as a freelance translator?
	Have you ever bought anything online?
	Do you have a credit card?
	Are you a full-time or a part-time freelance translator (interpreter)?
	Do you use a marketing plan to obtain new customers for your language services?
	Would you like to emigrate?
	Do you work while travelling?
	What is your net translator’s monthly income?
	Will US economy collapse?
	What is your gender?
	Do you have an official translator education (degree in linguistics/philology/translation) ?
	What country do you live in?
	Is globalization a good thing?
	What is your religion?
	What USD exchange rate do you expect in the future (vs. Euro)?
	Do you often feel lonely and isolated working from your home?
	How do you prefer to be paid?
	Are you going to change your OS to Windows Vista?
	What is the most frequent reason you turn down translation job offers (while you need more jobs)?
	Do you have debts?
	Does your freelance translator work provide you with enough income for living or do you have to have other sources of revenue?
	Do you primarily work at a desktop computer or at a laptop?
	As a freelance translator, do you have your own website (on your own domain)?
	Besides translating into your native language, do you also provide translations into a language that is not your native language?
	As a freelance translator, how many words of non-technical text are you comfortable with translating per working day (8 hours)?
	Are you a paying member of any of the translation portals that require you to pay recurring membership fees to obtain special benefits?
	Do you think cash (paper and coin money) will eventually be removed from circulation?
	If you don’t use Linux, what stops you?
	Do you like travelling abroad?
	Do you proofread your translations (if you are paid for translation only)?
	As a freelance translator, would you like to create your own translation agency in the future?
	Do you live in your native country or abroad?
	How many e-mail messages do you receive daily (including spam, job alerts, newsletters, personal correspondence etc)?
	If you had a lot of free time, would you start learning another foreign language?
	Do you do test translations free of charge?
	If working on a translation project you are unsure how to translate a certain term, what would you do?
	Do you receive translation jobs from translation agencies or from direct clients?
	Do you use CAT/TM tools?
	What problem bothers you the most as a freelance translator?