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The downs
This will not be a cheerful post!For three days now, I have not received a single demand for translation, except a translation agency who asked for a translation of 40 words and then send me a message of Erratum: Sorry, this is not to be translated i...
Back on the track
Hi,I have not written for such a long time because work and assignments just ate me up! Although times have been hard physically speaking and brain wise, this period gave me GREAT motivation for my translation career. I am quite thankful for all the ...
Three weeks of work
The last three weeks have been a total run for me. I just worked day and night and the quality of my work and myself have suffered!There were some assignements which I would have liked to deny, but the agencies were so insisting that they made me wor...
Keys to success - I. part
SPECIALISATION is definitely one of the keys to a successfull carreer in the translation business!Of course, when you have some professionnal training or experience in a field other than translation, you are a very lucky person! You should state your...
A forced holiday
Back again after quiete some time! But I have a good excuse - I was forced to take some holiday from the translation and Internet business. No, not because I would have won a week on the Caribbean or in Tahiti! Why roam so far afield? I just went nex...
Deep in the countryside..
...that's where I am living, far away from towns, villages, people. This morning, there was a mist which embraces everything. I sit outside under some trees and like the contrast: Not a single soul around me, but I am doing a translation for one of t...

