Tag: freelance
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Calling all translators! Tell me about ethics.
Hi everyone, just a quick one today. As many of you will already know, I’m currently about halfway through writing my PhD thesis on the ethics of translation and I was hoping that you might be able to offer me a little help. I’ve attempted to retain a sense of practical, professional relevance within my […]
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The Joys of Working From Home
Earlier today, during a spontaneous mid-morning break from my work, I found myself questioning whether or not, after several years of working almost exclusively from home as a freelance translator and researcher, I could go back to working in the ‘real world’ of offices, 9-5 and all that jazz. While the obvious answer is yes, of […]
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Bass Solos and Job Satisfaction
Before getting into today’s post, I want to quickly share a link. A short while back, one of my posts (Translation’s Identity Crisis) was translated into Spanish and posted on the Júramelo blog as ‘La crisis de identidad de la traducción‘. It’s brilliant to be able to read yourself in another language and it’s a great […]
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Book Review: 101 Things a Translator Needs to Know
After bringing you a Translation Studies-based post last time out, I wanted to again stick with an exploration of translation literature in today’s entry. The similarities end there, however, as here I give you my thoughts on the recently published (April 2014) 101 Things a Translator Needs to Know – quite a compelling title I’m […]
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Trust me, I’m a translator
Before getting started with today’s blog post, I just wanted to quickly mention a recent post I was featured in. Over at the Balance Your Words blog, Sara has started a great new series entitled ‘What’s on your desk?’ that gives translators out there a little insight into their fellow professionals’ quirks and working habits […]
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Guest Post: Mastering LinkedIn with Sara Colombo
HOW TO BE YOURSELF, ATTRACT THE RIGHT PEOPLE AND USE LINKEDIN EFFECTIVELY Hello all and thank you for having me here today. How are you? Joseph invited me to write a guest post for his blog and I am glad today we’ll be talking about LinkedIn. Yes, the once professional network that became a social […]
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Better (trans)late than never…
First of all, apologies for the awful pun. It’s probably not the best way to begin your first ever blog but my thinking was that, from that initial low, the only way is up… and that can only be a good thing, right?! As mentioned, this is my first ever blog; but why now? I […]
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