Very often the translators receive high volume translations. Instead the client may require big volumes with low rates. 

Translators are often confronted with this question․ How to deal with such offers ? Refuse or accept them? 

Let's introduce some ideas that may be helpful during your experience. 

1. Big volumes do not necessarily reduce your time or your efforts. You have to work on a large-scale content, match the terminology over the context, do repeatedly the review, eliminate the inconsistencies, rework the fluency, apply various checking to improve the translation quality.

2. Big volume translation is not a finished product. You cannot reduce your actions.

You have to explain to your customer that you will work on a context  as much as you have a text. You could deliver the translation once it has gone through all the necessary steps of quality checking.

3. Let's consider that you translate a big volume with the help of CAT tool. Some CATs may  generate the report of repetitions, errors and any other messages necessary to rise the quality. Even once, you have finished the whole job, you may notice a minor error or change. You take your time again to recheck the entire context; spelling, extra dots at the end of sentences, extra spaces within the words, the capitalization that require some languages.

4.  We all prefer to work on long-term projects. They allow us to feel financially safer. Anyway, does  we really evaluate the efforts that we put for hard working and time-consuming job. Start to  consider  short-term projects as the very potential ones. Sometimes they are well paid and they allow us to have a free time.

Translators have a very flexible schedule, they work day and night. They count on their week-ends ! Thus  they need to categorize better their projects, opportunities and orders.

5. Finally, it is not possible to expand constantly your skills of a translator. In a fast moving environment, being all the time under the pressure of learning CATs or web-based tools, you have to stop one day and say NO for the projects that are out of scope of your interest and profit.