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Poll: I tend to make long-term plans for my business or career Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "I tend to make long-term plans for my business or career".
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Experience has taught me not to make long-term plans. Future is so uncertain in so many ways that I just take one day at a time. I might make short and medium-term plans: my short-term plan is to finish well and on time the project at hand, while my medium-term plan is to stay healthy.
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| Wall planner | May 12, 2020 |
I have a wall planner showing jobs booked in for the next year. Does that count?
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Mervyn Henderson (X) 
Spain
Local time: 11:58
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Who says there's going to be a long term?
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Kay Denney
France
Local time: 11:58
French to English
I'm only ever chasing up new work just to keep me busy now (although I wouldn't object to a long-term project to be busy on)
I do try to provide the best possible quality with a view to long-term business relationships, does that count?
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Mervyn Henderson wrote:
Who says there's going to be a long term?
Sounds like the Little Translator could do with a Little Blue Pill...
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Mervyn Henderson (X)
Spain
Local time: 11:58
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... that pill doesn't make it any longer! Anyway, as everyone knows, it isn't the size that's important - it's the sighs.
[Edited at 2020-05-12 16:13 GMT]
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 11:58
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“The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft a-gley.”... R. Burns.
I never really thought about having a business or career. After graduating as a mature student, I considered doing VSO, but ended up coming to Spain and doing TEFL for several years before eventually drifting into translation. And I'm too old nowadays to be making long-term plans about anything - one day at a time will do me fine
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Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 07:58
Member (2014)
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I've gone through that phase years ago. Now I'm in a different phase where this is not longer a source of enthusiasm. A more realistic one.
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 11:58
Member (2009)
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In general, I could make all the plans I want to, but the future is too unpredictable to hold on to them. What seems to be a good idea or plan today, might become impossible tomorrow as the current pandemic has clearly shown.
Even though I do have some plans, life has taught me that it's much better to take one day at a time.
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Dan Lucas
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:58
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
| Plan B, Plan C | May 13, 2020 |
ProZ.com Staff wrote:
This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "I tend to make long-term plans for my business or career".
Having already had an unusually varied career path within my previous life as a sector analyst in equities, I then made a wrenching change to a different career as a freelance translator.
Almost every day I ponder the future of the profession. What happens if the human translation market shrinks dramatically? How do I protect myself? What can I do to increase my attractiveness to clients? If translation is no longer lucrative, what other options are open to me? What, in other words, is my Plan B? (And beyond that, what is my Plan C?)
No, you can't guarantee that things will go according to plan, but if you have made plans then at least you will have already considered a few possibilities, and you might get lucky. After all, as the old saw goes, luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
Regards,
Dan
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Why make long-term plans for a career when the future of our planet and of our societies is so unpredictable that you cannot even make mid-term plans for your life?
The only long-term plans I have are my house and my vegetable garden
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Kevin Fulton
United States
Local time: 05:58
German to English
| 3-day planning horizon | May 13, 2020 |
The same way I buy green bananas. I can reliably predict only that far in advance, but am sometimes wrong.
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expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 10:58
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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| "Carpe diem"! | May 13, 2020 |
Life away from plans is much more fun!
Planning ahead can ruin taking chances in life.
It doesn't work the way we want, and it can lead us to a big disappointment when we waste our valuable time and energy in making plans.
"Seize the day, and put very little trust in tomorrow". Horace's wise words!
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Becca Resnik
United States
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German to English
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| A whole plan *spreadsheet* | May 13, 2020 |
I have a spreadsheet where I track work-related things in general (to-do list broken down by category and priority, agencies applied to and when, rolling business expenses, etc.), one Sheet of which is literally called "The Plan." It's broken down by year and then by quarter and has X's to show what I'll be working on (career-development-wise) and when. A row along the top denotes "revenue sources unlocked," as I refer to it, meaning each new skill I have that can earn me money.
[Edited a... See more I have a spreadsheet where I track work-related things in general (to-do list broken down by category and priority, agencies applied to and when, rolling business expenses, etc.), one Sheet of which is literally called "The Plan." It's broken down by year and then by quarter and has X's to show what I'll be working on (career-development-wise) and when. A row along the top denotes "revenue sources unlocked," as I refer to it, meaning each new skill I have that can earn me money.
[Edited at 2020-05-13 23:09 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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