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Poll: Do you work during the holiday season?
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Muriel Vasconcellos
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I am right now Dec 25, 2012

I have a big job due on Tuesday. If I'd been smart, I might have tried to finish it earlier.

 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Sometimes Dec 25, 2012

It depends on having work to do!

 
Steve Kerry
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Rubbish Christmas.. Dec 25, 2012

I once spent the whole holiday apart from half of Christmas Day translating a specification brochure for bin lorries - rather enjoyed it, actually!

Steve K.


 
Thayenga
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Yes Dec 25, 2012

Although my calendar shows an unavailability, I'm still working. This is either as a translator/editor or as a writer. Our big holiday was December 21st, not being of the Christian faith.

Still, I want to wish all my fellow ProZians Happy and Safe Holidays!


 
Michael Harris
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Yes, always Dec 25, 2012

They are no other days than other days, just less people around.
I do not have a full day because I spend the time with my family, but as soon as they watch TV, I am agonner!
Life goes on ...


 
Oleksandr Kupriyanchuk
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A good idea: double (triple) rates Dec 25, 2012

...for the holiday season to make it even more enjoyable (and flexible).

Especialy if the holiday season is so long now -- in fact, at least from St. Nicholas Day (19 December) to the Lunar New Year in February and Women's Day in March.



Happy Holidays and best wishes for the New Year!

[Edited at 2012-12-25 11:16 GMT]


 
Julian Holmes
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Yes Dec 25, 2012

But preferably out of my own choosing and not through necessity.
Mind you, Xmas is just another normal day over here in Japan -- we celebrate the New Year.

Wishing you all good health and prosperity in 2013!


 
Martha Schwan
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WORK, WORK AND MORE WORK Dec 25, 2012

I do work during the weekends and also the holidays and that does not exclude Christmas and New Year.

I am right here in front of my PC and I can't wait until someone shows up with an emergency project.


 
Filipa Plant dos Santos
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I like it! Dec 25, 2012

Steve Kerry wrote:

I once spent the whole holiday apart from half of Christmas Day translating a specification brochure for bin lorries - rather enjoyed it, actually!

Steve K.


A Rubbish Christmas indeed!

I've got work over Christmas, which I'm glad of, but I did only accept the amount that I can fit in around the family while staying sane

Happy holidays to all of my fellow Prozians, and a good new year to us all!!

Filipa


 
Sonja Köppen
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I think the "no, never" ones... Dec 25, 2012

...are actually afk to feast/meet people and not online to check the according radio button, so I doubt this poll's outcome is representative

 
Patricia Prevost
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25th December, I am working right now Dec 25, 2012

I've got a project to deliver on Friday morning, so Yes, I am working now and will stop for Christmas lunch and then work a bit more after 6 or 7 p.m. And hey, I'm not complaining.

 
Ventnai
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Bah, humbug! Dec 25, 2012

I 'ate Christmas, so yes I am working. I have already been called Scrooge twice today. I'd much rather take time off and see my family and friends at another time of year.

 
Allison Wright (X)
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No "undo" button for poll answers Dec 25, 2012

I should have selected "Yes", but said "Sometimes, depends".

I had one holiday which encompassed Christmas and New Year in 1988/98, and another one in 1999/2000.

I have never worked on Christmas Day, but have worked on 1 January. Last year I worked right through the night on New Year's Eve on an urgent job for delivery 08:00 on 01.01.12. That was too extreme. I will not do that again.

I have a large job due on 03.01.2013, so I will probably work late this
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I should have selected "Yes", but said "Sometimes, depends".

I had one holiday which encompassed Christmas and New Year in 1988/98, and another one in 1999/2000.

I have never worked on Christmas Day, but have worked on 1 January. Last year I worked right through the night on New Year's Eve on an urgent job for delivery 08:00 on 01.01.12. That was too extreme. I will not do that again.

I have a large job due on 03.01.2013, so I will probably work late this afternoon (Christmas Day) and tonight. Religious observations are important to me, and those are "fixed appointments"; all the rest is pretty much negotiable.

I consider all other days during "the holiday season" as working days, although should confess that the afternoon of 20th December was spent enjoying a luncheon with friends...
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Marlene Blanshay
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I am this year... Dec 25, 2012

Work was slow for a few weeks and I didn't mind accepting some jobs over the holidays. I had a large editing job due the 27, and a smallish translation with no real due date. Another client had a review for me to do but it's been delayed. I'm fine working through the holidays!

 
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