Poll: How do you usually feel after end-of-the-year celebrations? Autor vlákna: ProZ.com Staff
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| | | | Liena V. 
Lotyšsko
Local time: 04:59
Člen (2014)
francouzština -> lotyština
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There is no "usually", each year is different and I've already changed my mind about whether I've had enough several times in the past week alone and I still have 5 days left for la dolce far niente, so I am not making any predictions.
Happy New Year, everyone!
| | | | | Always thankful for the experiences lived! | Dec 31, 2025 |
I have lived many grateful personal and professional experiences! I am always thankful for having amazing clients who are excited to work with me the next year. Likewise, I also have many projects in mind that I would like to start very soon! So, I do not complain!
Best wishes for this new year to everyone!
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Glad it's over...
Happy New Year!
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Peter Moss-Métra
Francie
Local time: 03:59
Člen (2010)
němčina -> angličtina
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| The last year... | Dec 31, 2025 |
The amount of work I have been receiving has been dropping since 2023. In about 9 months, my income halved. It continued at 50% of my usual volume until the summer of this year, then dropped to almost nothing. It picked up over the past few weeks (probably because I was taking work for people on holiday), but I have no illusions about the future. After 20 years, I think it's time to move on. The ups and downs, the clients always wanting faster and cheaper translations, with no tolerance at all f... See more The amount of work I have been receiving has been dropping since 2023. In about 9 months, my income halved. It continued at 50% of my usual volume until the summer of this year, then dropped to almost nothing. It picked up over the past few weeks (probably because I was taking work for people on holiday), but I have no illusions about the future. After 20 years, I think it's time to move on. The ups and downs, the clients always wanting faster and cheaper translations, with no tolerance at all for any error: "the translation must be totally error-free and ready for delivery without the need for proofing". What am I? A machine? I may not be as fast as AI, but I'm better. But I have to be as fast as AI, but perfect, and cheap! So that, on top of the usual complaints about my English (99% of which are totally unfounded, almost laughable) and general quibbling from clients whose native language is not English have pushed me over the edge. Post-editing is a mind-numbing activity, and after 5 years of study, working for an income that barely pays the rent in Paris, basta! Time to move on... to where I don't know. But the world of translation has become intolerable ▲ Collapse
| | | | Zea_Mays
Itálie
Local time: 03:59
angličtina -> němčina
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| relieved (like my dog) | Dec 31, 2025 |
My dog fears bangs and cracks like from guns and fireworks to that point that he gets into panic, hyperventilating, peeing and pooping and running around in search of a hiding place.
After 3 years of this condition and none of the other solutions I tried working, this year I decided to resort to drugs and got an antidepressant from the vet. Seeing him - a funny turbo dog - moving so slow and being that calm hurts, but if it helps him to feel less stress and fear, we'll have to get through ... See more My dog fears bangs and cracks like from guns and fireworks to that point that he gets into panic, hyperventilating, peeing and pooping and running around in search of a hiding place.
After 3 years of this condition and none of the other solutions I tried working, this year I decided to resort to drugs and got an antidepressant from the vet. Seeing him - a funny turbo dog - moving so slow and being that calm hurts, but if it helps him to feel less stress and fear, we'll have to get through this. ▲ Collapse
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Zea_Mays wrote:
My dog fears bangs and cracks like from guns and fireworks to that point that he gets into panic, hyperventilating, peeing and pooping and running around in search of a hiding place.
After 3 years of this condition and none of the other solutions I tried working, this year I decided to resort to drugs and got an antidepressant from the vet. Seeing him - a funny turbo dog - moving so slow and being that calm hurts, but if it helps him to feel less stress and fear, we'll have to get through this.
I had a female Rottweiler named Pupé (because she was like a doll puppy when we got her at 2 months, yeap, too young) who suffered a lot with strong noises like fireworks, sirens, and storm thunders. She used to hide under a solid cement stairway in the backyard.
When she was a puppy one holiday, we came back to the house and she was under a table. The flat-screen LED television had dropped at an angle towards the table, making a sort of doghouse; she was hidden there.
Since then, every holiday season, we decided to stay at home so she wouldn't be alone. We used to close all windows/doors, turn the AC on (warming isn't a joke; we are having 40° Celsius today), and play classical music loudly so she didn't hear the explosions. She passed away at 14 years old in 2019, and I miss her every day.
Now, luckily, the Buenos Aires government has decided to prohibit the sale of fireworks because it isn't just pets that suffer, but small kids and people with disabilities, too. Also, since we have temperatures increasing every year, it has become dangerous to store fireworks to sell, so they prohibited it and set high fines for stores having them. Therefore, this year it's more quiet and even cats are happier.
Let's hope people keep the environment and climate change in mind for 2026, since we don't have a backup planet to live on. (Despite what some stoned tech moguls might say.)
A toast to a better 2026!
| | | | | My french bulldog | Dec 31, 2025 |
I also had a dog, a female French bulldog, named Troia (I know what it means in Italian but she was named after a beautiful beach in Portugal) who was terrified of loud noises, not only thunderstorms, but also fireworks, sirens and car horns. When she heard strange noises, she would get between my legs (she made me fall more than once). She belonged to my daughter Marta, but when Marta went to work in Mexico, we took care of each other for 10 years, even after Marta returned. She passed away two... See more I also had a dog, a female French bulldog, named Troia (I know what it means in Italian but she was named after a beautiful beach in Portugal) who was terrified of loud noises, not only thunderstorms, but also fireworks, sirens and car horns. When she heard strange noises, she would get between my legs (she made me fall more than once). She belonged to my daughter Marta, but when Marta went to work in Mexico, we took care of each other for 10 years, even after Marta returned. She passed away two years ago of old age, she was 15, which in dog years is equivalent to being a centenarian. She used to sleep in my room at the foot of my bed. From time to time, I “hear” her drinking water during the night. I miss her every day...
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