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25 avr. 20232 min de lecture
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),...
22 déc. 20222 min de lecture
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. 20222 min de lecture
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. 20222 min de lecture
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...
15 nov. 20222 min de lecture
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. 20221 min de lecture
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. 20222 min de lecture
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. 20222 min de lecture
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...
28 août 20222 min de lecture
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 20221 min de lecture
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...
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