We translators have our way with words, and we somehow all agree on a handful of common things and situations that each and every one of us encounters during their career at least once or twice. Our job is no easy one, regardless of what many,...
We translators have our way wi...
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Double standards. Double standards everywhere. Translators don’t mind making their colleagues wait months before paying them, but they have a problem waiting to get paid. Translators who say they respect their highly professional colleagues, pretending they learned a lesson or 2 from their experience. But when it’s...
Double standards. Double stand...
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Being a freelancer means meeting endless types of clients on a daily basis. Some are a breath of fresh air and so amazing to work with, while others give you a hard time, and working with them is really not my idea of a healthy...
Being a freelancer means meeti...
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I can’t stress enough the freedom that comes with being your own boss, but with that also comes the imperativeness of making your own business decisions and being responsible for them and their consequences. More people are tending to work on a freelance basis nowadays. This...
I can’t stress enough the fr...
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In translation as in everything in life, bad things happen. I don’t know why it took me this much time to blog about this experience I had over 2 years ago. I worked for a client a couple of years back and then he was nowhere to...
In translation as in everythin...
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A one-time client contacted me for a super urgent translation. About 50 pages to be translated within 24 hours. Every time I receive such requests, the first thing that comes to my mind is: here we go; another client who, instead of admitting to being...
A one-time client contacted me...
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I genuinely didn’t want to start off my blogging year with a post where I publicly rant about the only client that gives me a hard time when it comes to issuing payments and settling invoices, but they left me with no choice! I found myself...
I genuinely didn’t want to s...
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