Poll: My last job was: Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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| | | Established client | Jun 1, 2023 |
My last job (delivered 5 minutes ago) was for an established client with whom I have been working for 4 years mainly on large projects: EN+FR->PT(pt)
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| | | | Lieven Malaise
Belgium
Local time: 16:53
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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| Established client | Jun 1, 2023 |
The last job I did was for a regular client I've been working for since the year 2007.
| | | | Kay Denney 
France
Local time: 16:53
French to English
What's the difference between "new" and "new, potential" except for the fact that "new, potential" is nonsense in that a client is one or the other but never both?
The last job I delivered was for my most recent client but it's the fourth job so far so now I'm wondering at what point a client moves from "new" to "established"...
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| Weird question but here goes | Jun 1, 2023 |
Since 2005, I've done 3240 "jobs" (although with some exceptions, the files I receive from a client in one month count as one "job"). I've had 315 "new" clients in that period, which means that there's only a 9.72% chance that the last job I did at any one time was for a "new" client, and a 90.27% chance that it was for an established client. Still, to answer the question: sure enough, and somewhat unsurprisingly, my most recent job was from an "established" client (one I've had since 1995). ... See more Since 2005, I've done 3240 "jobs" (although with some exceptions, the files I receive from a client in one month count as one "job"). I've had 315 "new" clients in that period, which means that there's only a 9.72% chance that the last job I did at any one time was for a "new" client, and a 90.27% chance that it was for an established client. Still, to answer the question: sure enough, and somewhat unsurprisingly, my most recent job was from an "established" client (one I've had since 1995).
Is this of any interest to anyone? Well, possibly, I suppose 
Like Kay, I don't understand the difference between "new" and "potential" if they've given me a job. Also, a (presumably new) client I get "through a colleague" is, I would have thought, a "new client". If it isn't new, but still through a colleague or anyone else, isn't it an "established" client?
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Kay Denney wrote:
What's the difference between "new" and "new, potential" except for the fact that "new, potential" is nonsense in that a client is one or the other but never both?
In my book, a potential client becomes a new client when I receive the first job and only then…
| | | | Isabelle Neely
United States
Local time: 08:53
Member (2016)
English to Dutch
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| my last job was | Jun 1, 2023 |
My last job was for an established client... one of those clients I do many small jobs for (one or two pages), but at the end of the month all the small jobs add up.
| | | | | Established-ish | Jun 1, 2023 |
I’ve been working for this one since 1993 but probably won’t be for much longer as they have the AI bug…
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Els Peleman
Belgium
Local time: 16:53
French to Flemish
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| the job I am still working on | Jun 2, 2023 |
My last job is for an end customer I work for indirectly via an agency and directly with the internal translator as well. It is a huge instruction document (9000 words) about construction material for balconies.
Other jobs today: proofreading some social media post for another end customer and for an action for a company that works with people with ASS and is looking for donations.
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