Freelancing

The change you want to see in your world

I haven't been posting a lot for a while. Even though April hasn't been that good financially (not bad exactly, but not good either),...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...