Hello and a belated Happy Thanksgiving from Thoughts on Translation! While I get back on track after taking last week off, we’ll let some other bloggers do the talking…these are some links to posts I enjoyed reading this morning, in no particular order. Have fun with them; Thoughts on Translation will be back with some [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Post-holiday links
Posted in Links on November 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Managing your time as a freelancer
Posted in Freelancing, tagged Freelancing, time management on November 25, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Time management is always an important issue for freelancers, and especially so at this time of year. It always seems that November and December are a triple whammy of the winter holidays, clients realizing that they need to squeeze in the last few projects of the year, and trying to finish up all of our [...]
Coffee break links
Posted in Links on November 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Here are a couple of interesting links for your coffee break reading: Get Rich Slowly on How much house do you need?. As a small house dweller (we have our family of three and my office in an 1,150 square foot ranch with no plans to move or expand) and an envier of Tumbleweed Tiny [...]
Translation makes the front page of the LA Times
Posted in Links on November 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Having recently joined the ATA Public Relations Committee, I was excited to receive an e-mail this morning about a story on the front page of today’s Los Angeles Times. “Demand grows for niche translators” profiles German to English waste management translator Abigail “Trash Girl” Dahlberg and features extensive quotes from ATA President Nicholas Hartmann and [...]
Why you need your own domain name
Posted in Marketing, Technology on November 13, 2009 | 16 Comments »
What’s in a domain name (corny, I know, but too obvious to pass up…)? A lot, as it turns out. As freelancers who are dependent on e-mail to keep our businesses running, domain names are very, very important. The three basic options when it comes to e-mail are: Use a domain name provided by your [...]
Overcoming psychological barriers to success
Posted in Freelancing, tagged freelance success, freelance translation on November 6, 2009 | 10 Comments »
This week, two blog posts on the psychology of freelancing caught my eye: this one from Get Rich Slowly, entitled “Knocking out the beliefs that hold you back” and this one from I Will Teach You To Be Rich, entitled “Success and the shrug effect” (and by the way, it’s not that I love blogs [...]
Audio interview: getting started as a freelance translator
Posted in Getting started as a translator, Interviews on November 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
While I’m formulating a few posts on the recent ATA conference in New York, here’s an interview that I’ve been meaning to post for a while. Colorado-based Portuguese translator, interpreter and voiceover talent Cris Silva (who has the distinction of being Colorado’s only ATA-certified English to Portuguese translator) recently interviewed me about getting started as [...]
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