Forum: Subtitling
Topic: Ask me anything about subtitling
Poster: Michael Wetzel
Post title: my assumptions
As far as the question of cost of living vs. average income/quality of life goes, you may be entirely correct. I don't think that I could substantially reduce my cost of living by moving to a different country without a significant loss of quality of life. However, that assumption may be outright wrong and the generalization from my personal case might also be very misleading.
I was also making certain assumptions about Norfuer's situation. Because it is a ministry and I assumed that he or she really is a native speaker of English (that's what the profile says and I didn't notice anything to make me assume otherwise), I also assumed that there is some kind of direct connection to the client and that they went to Norfuer because of this and not to save money by finding a captioner in a low-income country. Any of those assumptions could obviously be wrong. However, if my assumptions are correct, then Norfuer would be competing with Canadian captioners and not Philippine (or Indian, etc.) captioners and ought to calculate a suitable price and discount on that basis.
Topic: Ask me anything about subtitling
Poster: Michael Wetzel
Post title: my assumptions
As far as the question of cost of living vs. average income/quality of life goes, you may be entirely correct. I don't think that I could substantially reduce my cost of living by moving to a different country without a significant loss of quality of life. However, that assumption may be outright wrong and the generalization from my personal case might also be very misleading.
I was also making certain assumptions about Norfuer's situation. Because it is a ministry and I assumed that he or she really is a native speaker of English (that's what the profile says and I didn't notice anything to make me assume otherwise), I also assumed that there is some kind of direct connection to the client and that they went to Norfuer because of this and not to save money by finding a captioner in a low-income country. Any of those assumptions could obviously be wrong. However, if my assumptions are correct, then Norfuer would be competing with Canadian captioners and not Philippine (or Indian, etc.) captioners and ought to calculate a suitable price and discount on that basis.