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Poll: How does the summer business slump affect you?
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Lieven Malaise
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Belgium
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Steady Jul 19

My workload stays more or less steady, but I'm taking at least 15 days off, so my income in the months of July, August and September is often lower than in the other months.

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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
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N/A Jul 19

Slump? As many translators take their summer vacations and I don’t, some years those are my best months. Besides that, I have a long-time customer who every year has a good volume of translations to be delivered at the end of September. Usually, I start receiving their projects in the beginning of August…
 
Oxana G
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Variations Jul 21

The work volume fluctuates anyway during the year, and I like to take some periods off to rest, recharge, spend more time with family.
 


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