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Happy Easter!
The fantastic Easter period. The first annaul leaves welcoming the spring wheather – not this year unfortunately – trying to prolong the holiday by addding Easter Monday and Good Friday. Like me, I...
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Verifika!
Before I come to tell you my – very personal – opinion about this tool, I tell you its story, how I got to it. One of my friends and colleagues posted about this tool on facebook, so I downloaded it,...
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The evolution of the translation
I occasionally do mentoring for translators. Rather than language lessons or how to translate, I help people to use CAT tools. Usually the software, which is known enough to be used by a large amount...
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Time management II (or: why the every day 10 minutes plan doesn’t work)
I tried to go with my plan of the half an hour reading, half an hour in the garden, half an hour thinking, but I can’t! There are plenty of things, I would like to push into a day – just remembered...
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Can I have a sample, please?
I had this e-mail since March 2013 in my inbox. I set-up a very strict e-mail archiving policy for myself. I have a folder for every customer. I only archive my customer’s e-mails, once I created a job...
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When a mother has to let go
Well, I started my activity back in 2009. I mean, loads of us, freelance translators try to become PROFESSIONALS, we like to think about ourselves like real divas of the linguistic and we love...
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#iapti2013
In socialist Hungary of my youth it was a pain, when young people started to sang anything else, than just the pioneer songs. They discovered beat and rock’n’roll without permission. But this was and...
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Two blondies: -How is your net? – Hm…not sure, I think inter?
Italians are crazy people! They talk all the time! About what? Food, soccer and politics. You enter a bar and you hear someone talking about last night’s match or about a new pizzeria, opened next...
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No sex at work
My idea separating my personal and business life took another step: I bought a business computer. Surely, all things, I do to strap myself away from my business identity aims to have one goal: to give...
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Working during your holiday
I truly did everything! I started to send out emails at the beginning of the week to let agencies know, I will be away. I scheduled my last jobs to be finished before I am away and still I haven’t...
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Became an employee again
Some weeks ago I wrote about the difficulty of separating myself from my business. I took the most important step and opened a bank account for my company. It makes me possible to let pay K2L‘s...
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When you have no time at all, you have all the time, you need
Keyboard shortcuts make me crazy. I never learned 10 finger typing. I tried, but after the first row (a-s-d-f j-k-l-ö) I always quit. I type since I was 18 – yes, I am differently aged person, when I...
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More efficient than Dior’s hydro creme set
My core business is translation. I rarely have – and take – the opportunity to get out for some fieldwork (interpreting). Firstly, I created my business to be less local and more global. I have no...
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Do we need to talk about ethics?
Translators, who freelance like me, usually never meet the major part of their customers. In the past five years, there was one customer, who insisted to see me in his office, before actually letting...
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Who gives me more?
I use proz’ invoicing feature. The tool is just brilliant (internet-based service) Best thing is that you also have reports. These reports are easy to understand. You can see for example, which is your...
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The key is the key!
Truly, in the last 24 hours I was in every level of hell. It started yesterday evening, when Giorgio thought, we should take the cats to his parents. They have a big yard, he was worried, that Rise and...
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How was my 2013?
What has happened in 2013? Ha-ha…I can tell you, what has happened. I became a business woman! I translated since 2009 regularly – and not regularly since 2001 – so I already had some customers, which...
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Enough! Am not a slave!
This year starts good. After some more serious reporting on my last year’s activity I found one major leakage in my daily performance. My rates are too low with some agencies, so I work way too much to...
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Your own pace
How to be at the right pace in your business? This week I am in Hungary. I would lie by saying, it is like every – any – other country to me. Hungary is my heart, my lounges, it is the core of my life...
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Record, report, export, read and act!
My time-management problem started, when I started freelancing and it never ended ever since. I find every day something, what completes my puzzle. Yes, time-management for me was a puzzle, which I...
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