Poll: Are you the main breadwinner in your household? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Are you the main breadwinner in your household?".
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Lieven Malaise
Belgium
Local time: 05:13
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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My partner works less than half-time, so yes.
[Edited at 2022-06-24 08:59 GMT]
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I have been living alone since my youngest daughter left the nest some 20 years ago (in fact she has been living with me again since December last year but she's not financially dependent on me any more). Translation allowed me to support myself (I'm a widow) and raise my three kids on my own.
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expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 04:13
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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How many times should we keep asking the same question?
Just try to copy and paste this question in Google followed by "Proz", and you will see the results.
[Edited at 2022-06-24 09:58 GMT]
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expressisverbis wrote:
How many times should we keep asking the same question?
Just try to copy and paste this question in Google followed by "Proz", and you will see the results.
[Edited at 2022-06-24 09:58 GMT]
Well, apparently when Proz has no new Quick Polls questions (or hasn’t vetted yet the ones that have been suggested) recycles the old ones over and over again. And yet one of the rules for suggesting a poll is “Ensure that a similar question has not been asked recently by searching for key terms”.
[Edited at 2022-06-24 10:35 GMT]
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David GAY
Local time: 05:13
English to French
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expressisverbis wrote:
How many times should we keep asking the same question?
Just try to copy and paste this question in Google followed by "Proz", and you will see the results.
[Edited at 2022-06-24 09:58 GMT]
True, but people come and go. The translation landscape has changed a lot. Same goes for personal situations. So in my opinion, it s always interesting to ask.
[Edited at 2022-06-24 13:28 GMT]
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:13
Member (2008)
Italian to English
Yes - I'm the main breadwinner in my household. And there's only one person: me. And a cat.
New question: what did you have for breakfast this morning?
[Edited at 2022-06-24 17:25 GMT]
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Tom in London wrote:
New question: what did you have for breakfast this morning?
[Edited at 2022-06-24 17:25 GMT]
Do you have the same number of toes on your left foot as on your right?
Yes | No | Other | Don't know
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Lingua 5B 
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Local time: 05:13
Member (2009)
English to Croatian
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Is your middle toe bigger than your big toe?
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expressisverbis wrote:
How many times should we keep asking the same question?
Just try to copy and paste this question in Google followed by "Proz", and you will see the results.
[Edited at 2022-06-24 09:58 GMT]
Maybe there's been a massive wave of divorces or marriages among translators since Covid.
People may have got sick of their partners also working from home. Or had a bigger pool to pick from in their online dating.
I've gone from earning 80% (married) to 100% (single) to 50% (recoupled) over the past three years, and I do like to see myself as a trendsetter.
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expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 04:13
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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| No interest whatsoever | Jun 25, 2022 |
David GAY wrote:
So in my opinion, it s always interesting to ask.
And I answer with a question: Why it is so important to know if we are the main breadwinners in our household? If speed is more important than quality, what clothes am I wearing today while working or not...?
There are polls that are a complete nonsense to me and other questions very private, and that's why most part of the time I don't answer.
I have no interest whatsoever to know if you are the main breadwinner or not in your household.
[Edited at 2022-06-25 16:43 GMT]
[Edited at 2022-06-25 16:43 GMT]
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Dan Lucas
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:13
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
expressisverbis wrote:
There are polls that are a complete nonsense to me and other questions very private, and that's why most part of the time I don't answer.
Problem solved, surely?
Dan
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expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 04:13
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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| Actually ...... | Jun 25, 2022 |
Lingua 5B wrote:
Is your middle toe bigger than your big toe?
.... Yes it is!
About these poll questions (and answering them), don't we have better things to do, like translating for example? Or is there not enough work?
[Edited at 2022-06-25 20:42 GMT]
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