Get Rich Slowly has a great post on How to budget for an irregular income; it’s definitely worth a read on your coffee break. Two of J.D.’s tips that I particularly agree with are: Use separate business and personal accounts and pay yourself from the business account as if you were an employee. I started [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Link: living on an irregular income
Posted in Links, Money on July 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Guest post: project manager pet peeves
Posted in Guest posts on July 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The recent guest post on Translator pet peeves generated so much interest that I thought it would be interesting to let other players in the industry vent, I mean share their thoughts as well. The following guest post is by Paula Dieli; her bio appears after the post. These pet peeves include my own project [...]
Self-publishing with Lulu
Posted in Self-publishing on July 25, 2009 | 18 Comments »
Thanks to Andrew Bell for suggesting this post idea! Years ago, becoming a published author was a really big deal; one had to write up a book proposal, find an agent, shop the book around to various publishing houses and hope that one of them would sign on to publish the book. In the traditional [...]
Some interesting links
Posted in Links on July 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
If you’re looking for some coffee break reading, you might want to check out: Paula Dieli’s new blog Essential Project Management. Paula just launched this blog, and as far as I know it’s the only one devoted to translation/localization project management. Get Rich Slowly on The high cost of laziness, which reminded me why it’s [...]
Personal software training: a niche waiting to be filled?
Posted in Money, Technology on July 15, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of giving a seminar on “Beyond the Basics of Freelancing” for the Northern California Translators Association. At the end of the seminar, I did a short overview of ways to diversify your freelance income stream. All of us are familiar with the basics such as editing, proofreading, voiceover, copywriting, [...]
Keeping statistics about your freelance business
Posted in Freelancing on July 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It would be hard to top the buzz (furor?) generated by the guest post on translator pet peeves, so I’m going to stick with a dry topic for today! Statistics and performance metrics are important keys to tracking the success of your freelance business. Hopefully you at least track your income and expenses, but there [...]
Guest post: translator pet peeves
Posted in Guest posts on July 9, 2009 | 18 Comments »
This is a guest post by Interpres incognitus, a US-based freelance translator who prefers to remain anonymous. “The client doesn’t want a translation, he just wants to know what it says.” This is a direct quote from a project manager at a translation agency and the perfect way to introduce my guest post. We were [...]
Links: for your reading pleasure
Posted in Links on July 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »
If the summer weather has you looking for some inspiration, here are some recent blog posts I’ve enjoyed reading. These are in no particular order: Escape from Cubicle Nation (don’t you love the title?) Get Rich Slowly linked to this blog, which has some excellent tips on entrepreneurial topics. Check out the “open source coaching” [...]
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Corinne McKay is an ATA-certified French to English translator specializing in international development, law and non-fiction books. She launched Thoughts on Translation in February, 2008 as a way to connect and share ideas with freelance translators around the world.
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