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Poll: Do you read the news or some other activity before starting work for the day?
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Oct 4, 2022

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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 09:48
Liige (2007)
inglise - portugali
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Yes Oct 4, 2022

I never start working before taking my breakfast and I always watch the news while I’m eating it (I know it’s unhealthy especially now in these difficult times).

[Edited at 2022-10-04 19:22 GMT]


Yetta Jensen Bogarde
Xanthippe
Tom in London
Thaiane Assumpção (X)
expressisverbis
Younes TAZI
Luciana da Costa Monteiro
 
Susanna Martoni
Susanna Martoni  Identity Verified
Itaalia
Local time: 10:48
hispaania - itaalia
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I should do it every day Oct 4, 2022

I generally have my breakfast, read some news on the media and walk to kiosk and buy the newspaper.
I like walking, enjoy fresh air and read the news on a paper device.

I should do it every day, I actually try to do it as often as I can.
This month of October is very nice and such habit seems perfect for our freelance job.


Xanthippe
Thaiane Assumpção (X)
ABIAS JEAN MARY
 
peter jackson
peter jackson  Identity Verified
Hispaania
Local time: 10:48
hispaania - inglise
Yes but Oct 4, 2022

I am finding it increasingly difficult as I pull even more of the little hair I have left out every time I read something about Britain’s ever more insane leaders. I am so pleased I live in Spain!

Barbara Carrara
Ventnai
Jean Shearer
Philip Lees
Tom in London
Helen Genevier
 
Xanthippe
Xanthippe
Prantsusmaa
Local time: 10:48
Liige (2008)
itaalia - prantsuse
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SITE LOCALIZER
Yes Oct 4, 2022

As I’m not a morning person, I prefer to start my day going outside for a long walk with my dog.

This allows me to really wake up!

Then, a second coffee and go to work!


Susanna Martoni
ABIAS JEAN MARY
 
Alex Lichanow
Alex Lichanow
Saksamaa
Local time: 10:48
inglise - saksa
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No... Oct 4, 2022

...unless brewing up some coffee counts as "some other activity"
I actually used to read the news before starting to work, but quite honestly, I gave it up at some point. No need to get myself depressed before translating my first word.


expressisverbis
Thaiane Assumpção (X)
svetlana cosquéric
Barbara Carrara
 
Metin Demirel
Metin Demirel  Identity Verified
Türgi
Local time: 12:48
itaalia - türgi
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Other Oct 4, 2022

I don't read the news regularly. Every time I attempt to, I come across something stupid like a spelling error or an irrelevant term used in the wrong context, which makes me lose my motivation about my job. Even if the text is technically perfect, the news is always repugnant.

But I have my morning routine. I wake up late and spend 2 hours before the breakfast (checking the emails and respond to them if urgent, watching videos on YouTube, blabbing around on one particular WhatsApp
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I don't read the news regularly. Every time I attempt to, I come across something stupid like a spelling error or an irrelevant term used in the wrong context, which makes me lose my motivation about my job. Even if the text is technically perfect, the news is always repugnant.

But I have my morning routine. I wake up late and spend 2 hours before the breakfast (checking the emails and respond to them if urgent, watching videos on YouTube, blabbing around on one particular WhatsApp group, shopping for the breakfast if I am not feeling lazy, etc.).
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Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
Prantsusmaa
Local time: 10:48
prantsuse - inglise
. Oct 4, 2022

I read the news and answer any personal e-mails and messages before getting down to work. I think of it as a warm-up for my brain.

Kevin Fulton
Thaiane Assumpção (X)
Liena Vijupe
Susanna Martoni
Younes TAZI
Josephine Cassar
Philip Lees
 
Tom in London
Tom in London
Suurbritannia
Local time: 09:48
Liige (2008)
itaalia - inglise
Strange diet. Oct 4, 2022

Teresa Borges wrote:

.... I always watch the news while I’m eating it


Not easy to do....


Thaiane Assumpção (X)
Stephanie Mitchel
 
Tom in London
Tom in London
Suurbritannia
Local time: 09:48
Liige (2008)
itaalia - inglise
Select Oct 4, 2022

The mainstream news (here it's the BBC and Sky) is all manipulated by the privileged people who decide what the news is going to be today and what you are going to think about it.

Instead, I carefully select the news I want to know about, mainly by using Twitter to follow a number of particular people who specialise in the subjects that interest me such as global warming, alternative energies, protecting the environment globally, hunt sabotage, radical politics, and of course cute p
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The mainstream news (here it's the BBC and Sky) is all manipulated by the privileged people who decide what the news is going to be today and what you are going to think about it.

Instead, I carefully select the news I want to know about, mainly by using Twitter to follow a number of particular people who specialise in the subjects that interest me such as global warming, alternative energies, protecting the environment globally, hunt sabotage, radical politics, and of course cute puppies.

[Edited at 2022-10-04 12:18 GMT]
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Ventnai
Yaotl Altan
Maria Teresa Pozzi
 
Lydia Molea
Lydia Molea  Identity Verified
Saksamaa
Local time: 10:48
inglise - saksa
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Coffee Oct 4, 2022

I need at least one cup to start anything in the morning. Everything after that first cup is negotiable

Thayenga
expressisverbis
Susanna Martoni
 
expressisverbis
expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 09:48
Liige (2015)
inglise - portugali
+ ...
No Oct 4, 2022

A cup of coffee (my cereal killer) and a shower give me an energetic start. In general, breakfast at 9:30/10:00.
As for the news, I leave it to my personal secretary who provides me with the latest news from around the world 😜


Thomas T. Frost
 
Thomas T. Frost
Thomas T. Frost  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 09:48
taani - inglise
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Yes Oct 4, 2022

I always get out of bed first.

expressisverbis
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Younes TAZI
Sebastian Witte
Philip Lees
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
Robert Rietvelt
 
Bruno Barbosa de Souza Moraes
Bruno Barbosa de Souza Moraes  Identity Verified
Brasiilia
Local time: 06:48
portugali - inglise
+ ...
Coffee and chess Oct 4, 2022

I drink coffee before.
Depending on the time I have, I also play chess.


Susanna Martoni
 
Jocelin Meunier
Jocelin Meunier  Identity Verified
Prantsusmaa
Local time: 10:48
inglise - prantsuse
+ ...
Yes Oct 4, 2022

Generally, a cup of coffee and a quick run on a video game. It's the best way for my gears to start grinding. The news are usually for the end of the day, because no one likes to work demoralized.

expressisverbis
 
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