| Pages in topic: < [1 2] | Poll: Do you stop working for meals? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Linda Ildevert (X) 
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:46
French to English
I usually stop for half an hour or so, if only to rest my eyes and brain! I find I work better in the afternoon if I have a lunch break.
| | | | DZiW (X)
Ukraine
English to Russian
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Mostly I work as an interpreter, so yes (sometimes it's but a day-long-and-on party)
On the other hand, when I'm really busy--including translation--I often forget I'm hungry, so it takes awhile to (look at the clock and) remember it!
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Yes, I stop work to eat. Even more embarrassing, sometimes there's no work, but i eat anyway!
| | | | Ventnai
Spain
Local time: 05:46
German to English
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I might postpone eating lunch, but only by an hour or so.
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Michael Harris
Germany
Local time: 05:46
Member (2006)
German to English
| Poll for tomorro | Jan 11, 2017 |
Julian Holmes wrote:
I stop working whenever I feel like it and this can include when I'm hungry.
I think this question could have been phrased better as:
Do you skip meals when you're busy? or something along these lines.
Yet another cackhanded question from Anonymous IMHO
Small edit
[Edited at 2017-01-11 13:41 GMT]
Do you keep working when sitting on the toilette?
| | | | Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 01:46
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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| For meals and other things | Jan 12, 2017 |
I take at least one break per hour. I take my meals in a different room, on the table, out in the balcony, away from the office. I also take breaks for cigarrettes, coffee, shower, movie, wife, kids, fixing things at home, washing, cooking... This is one of the great advantages of being a freelancer, isn't it?
Of course I have no regular or schedule time for any of these things. I can go to sleep anywhere between midnight and 6:00 am, so I can wake up anywhere between 8:00 am and 2:... See more I take at least one break per hour. I take my meals in a different room, on the table, out in the balcony, away from the office. I also take breaks for cigarrettes, coffee, shower, movie, wife, kids, fixing things at home, washing, cooking... This is one of the great advantages of being a freelancer, isn't it?
Of course I have no regular or schedule time for any of these things. I can go to sleep anywhere between midnight and 6:00 am, so I can wake up anywhere between 8:00 am and 2:00 pm. Then, of course the meals and other things vary in time as well. Scheduled and fixed times is something I'm not willing to have ever again in my life.
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