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...
top of page
- 8 déc. 2022
- 2 Min
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. 2022
- 1 Min
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
- 2 Min
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
- 2 Min
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 2022
- 2 Min
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
- 1 Min
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...
bottom of page