Poll: Do you work mainly with local or international clients?
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Nov 6, 2021

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Tom in London
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 00:54
Miembro 2007
inglés al portugués
+ ...
Foreign Nov 6, 2021

The large majority of my regular customers are based abroad, mostly in Europe. I only have two Portuguese clients: a lawyer with whom I work once in a while and a colleague with whom I work more often (split projects).

Muriel Vasconcellos
 
Tom in London
Tom in London
Reino Unido
Local time: 00:54
Miembro 2008
italiano al inglés
Yes Nov 6, 2021

"Do you work mainly with local or international clients?"


Yes.

This reminds me of something Mae West once said. "I only like two kinds of men: domestic, and foreign".

[Edited at 2021-11-06 10:29 GMT]


Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Mr. Satan (X)
 
neilmac
neilmac
España
Local time: 01:54
español al inglés
+ ...
Local Nov 6, 2021

But my main client has branch offices in other countries and sometimes I work directly with them.

 
Yetta Jensen Bogarde
Yetta Jensen Bogarde  Identity Verified
Dinamarca
Local time: 01:54
Miembro 2012
inglés al danés
+ ...
International Nov 6, 2021

98%% of my clients are international agencies.
Partly because of my membership with ProZ.com, partly my own choice.
I like it this way, and my regular clients have professional and pleasant PMs.


Muriel Vasconcellos
 
Wilsonn Perez Reyes
Wilsonn Perez Reyes  Identity Verified
El Salvador
Local time: 17:54
Miembro 2007
inglés al español
+ ...
No local clients Nov 6, 2021

The last time I had a local client here in El Salvador was about 10 years ago.

 
Muriel Vasconcellos
Muriel Vasconcellos  Identity Verified
Estados Unidos
Local time: 16:54
Miembro 2003
español al inglés
+ ...
International Nov 6, 2021

It happens that most of the international organizations I work with have headquarters in the United States, where I happen to live, but I am at the diametric opposite corner of the country in Sunny San Diego, 20 minutes from the Mexico border, and life is so different in California that there is even a movement to secede. Furthermore, most of the authors I translate are working in the field, not in the U.S.

Over time, I've had clients from all the continents except Antarctica (one
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It happens that most of the international organizations I work with have headquarters in the United States, where I happen to live, but I am at the diametric opposite corner of the country in Sunny San Diego, 20 minutes from the Mexico border, and life is so different in California that there is even a movement to secede. Furthermore, most of the authors I translate are working in the field, not in the U.S.

Over time, I've had clients from all the continents except Antarctica (one was very close, in Tierra del Fuego).
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José Silva
 
aliceQZ
aliceQZ
China
Most of my clients are local Nov 8, 2021

Most of my clients are local

 


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