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Poll: Are you a procrastinator? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Rajan Chopra
India
Local time: 16:06
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| Yes, if the deadline is not tight. | May 26, 2007 |
If the agencies/clients allow me sufficient time to do a translation, I keep postponing the work out of laziness. As a result, sometimes, I have to work very hard as some other agencies want me to deliver a job urgently. So, I have to finish this as well as the other job, which was postponed by me earlier. I know this is a bad habit, but I have not been able to get rid of it for the last 19 years or so.
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John Cutler 
Spain
Local time: 12:36
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My philosophy has always been: Why procrastinate before you have to?
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Julianne Rowland
United States
Local time: 06:36
Member (2006)
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| A reformed procrastinator | May 26, 2007 |
I used to be a procrastinator, until I realized that attacking a problem at the outset and 'coasting home' makes life so much easier and less stressful!
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| Only to a point | May 26, 2007 |
But I would not call it procrastination. A good time-planning rather
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In my view, "do it now" is the secret to success in business.
Incidentally, here's a story.
A Spaniard asked an Arab how to say "mañana" in Arabic. The Arab thought for a while and replied "I don't think Arabic contains a word that conveys that sense of urgency".
Just a joke - no offence intended.
Kind regards,
Jenny.
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| I like to procrastinate | May 26, 2007 |
Because all work and no play makes Nina a dull girl!
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| Another reformed procrastinator | May 26, 2007 |
By nature I definitely am one, but wisdom and self-awareness gained through many-years' painful experience already prevails Which probably means I am getting old
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Nesrin
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:36
English to Arabic
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| Pressure brings out the best in me... | May 26, 2007 |
...or so I would like to believe!
Generous deadlines just don't work for me. Put me under pressure and I'm on fire!!
Ok, I'm in denial. I admit it - am a procrastinator.
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lexical
Spain
Local time: 12:36
Portuguese to English
| Can't it wait, .... | May 26, 2007 |
...do we have to deal with this right now?
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Irene N
United States
Local time: 05:36
English to Russian
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| No, or rather not any more | May 26, 2007 |
Until the job is done it is a burden... unpaid for. Why would I need a double-shift, so to speak? It sits in the back of your mind torturing you and you are only half-relaxed at best. I can't remember any really luxurious deadlines but quite often they are just right, nice breaks including, and those breaks feel much nicer when you know that a good chunk is already done and over with. I prefer to keep it that way. When I feel dead lazy I simply say "no".
a. I would be stealing my ow... See more Until the job is done it is a burden... unpaid for. Why would I need a double-shift, so to speak? It sits in the back of your mind torturing you and you are only half-relaxed at best. I can't remember any really luxurious deadlines but quite often they are just right, nice breaks including, and those breaks feel much nicer when you know that a good chunk is already done and over with. I prefer to keep it that way. When I feel dead lazy I simply say "no".
a. I would be stealing my own no-worry free time
b. I'll have time for another job should I feel like it and it'll still be only one on my desk.
You can say that I am not a procrastinator because I am lazy and I hate discomfort:-) ▲ Collapse
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Textklick
Local time: 11:36
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In memoriam | You are so right | May 26, 2007 |
Nesrin wrote:
...or so I would like to believe!
Generous deadlines just don't work for me. Put me under pressure and I'm on fire!!
Ok, I'm in denial. I admit it - am a procrastinator.
I have an (agency) customer who bullies her customers and gives me very generous deadlines.
The result?
Procrastination and "JIT" delivery. Hasn't gone wrong yet (Inshallah).
The possible solution would be planning your life in Excel, but I've been there and done that as an inhouse person: it's a sad business and one that makes me revel in being in charge of my life.
We can "leverage" some wonderful tools for such tasks. I find a pencil and paper quite useful. Honest!
Chris
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 12:36
Spanish to English
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| the thief of time | May 27, 2007 |
who doesn't? ... so glad I'm in the sometimes section with the majority
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| The results are skewed | May 27, 2007 |
The people that would answer "most of the time" won't get round to voting before the poll closes
That reminds me, I must vote...
Terry.
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Özden Arıkan
Germany
Local time: 12:36
Member
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| The results are skewed II | May 27, 2007 |
And that because there's practically no way of knowing the difference between Sometimes/Most of the time AND I'll tell you later
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