Fighting exhaustion: the power of napping
Winter has come and it's brutal. It seems that everyone's sick, tired, burnt out or depressed. Or trying to get to the end of dry January...
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- 12 févr.
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Worry less, trust yourself more
I recently posted a rant against January, aka the slowest month of the business year with February. And clients and friends actually saw...
- 12 févr.
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Men who pretend you're just not there on social media.
Recently, I commented on a thread on LinkedIn about ChatGPT. Then another man commented just after me in a trolly manner, very...
- 12 févr.
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Winter rant
I hate January. For me, it's the slowest month of the year with February. Each year, I spend both months waiting for orders in a growing...
- 22 déc. 2022
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Let's stop being d***s on social media
Lately, I've been posting less on LinkedIn. Basically, I'm shocked by the way people, including me sometimes, are just mean on social...
- 15 déc. 2022
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Being stuck on repeat
I'm 43 now, which I consider neither young nor old. My age is starting to give me the privilege of experience, at least to some extent,...
- 15 déc. 2022
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Learning to communicate better: following up quickly
This week, I gained and lost two big jobs in a flash. Why? In one of the two cases, for circumstantial reasons over which I had no...
- 8 déc. 2022
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It's not me, it's not you, then what is it?
I'm becoming more and more a translator "by default". What does it mean? I'm realising that even though translation remains my main...
- 8 déc. 2022
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No pain, no gain but do we need to be so mean to ourselves anyway?
Yesterday I took the day off work for my 4th back tattoo session... This means that I took a day without earning any money to almost puke...
- 15 nov. 2022
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Kindness is free, but people prefer to be mean to each other on social media instead
I'm back on LinkedIn after a well-deserved holiday, and I must say I'm appalled at the level of aggressivity posts and comments are...
- 15 nov. 2022
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Work hard, live harder
Two weeks ago, I put my out-of-office on for the first time since 2012. Of course, I ended up replying to all my emails as I received...
- 5 oct. 2022
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Working with people you don't particularly like on difficult projects within impossible timeframes
Episode 2: Give them what they want. My last post was about those unbearable overachieving PMs, which we've all been if we started our...
- 5 oct. 2022
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Working with people you don't particularly like on difficult projects within impossible timeframes
Episode 1: Not my cup of tea, but hey Recently, I've worked on a complicated translation project with a PM I didn't find particularly...
- 5 sept. 2022
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Of mice and (sadistic) men
As a coach in training, I've seen a shocking post shared recently. It's the story of a 1950s psychology experiment involving mice....
- 28 août 2022
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Taking some 'time off'
This summer has been hectic, as I've been travelling and moving around with my family... while working. Yesterday was my very first real...
- 28 août 2022
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There: I've said it
The most unnerving post trend right now. People who start with something like "I don't like chocolate", "I am left-handed", "I shower in...
- 28 août 2022
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When you get that 150-page text
For some translators in certain niches, it's just another day at the office: they only translate a few long manuscripts, books, reports...
- 28 août 2022
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Pay your freelancers first
I've been chasing a client to get a €250 or so invoice paid. I did the work in February and invoiced it in March. In May, I resent the...
- 23 juil. 2022
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My kids will always come first
After careful consideration, I decided to postpone my second year of formal coaching training to 2023-2024. The thing is, the training...
- 22 juil. 2022
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Netflix and unchill
I always watch everything in the original version, even when I don't understand a word of the language. Therefore, like most people who...
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