Holiday time – or not going away
I should have been on holiday, this week – in Austria, in our all-time favourite hotel to be specific, in …
Category Archives: Self-employment
Mind Matters
Eleven weeks and counting into lockdown, it’s more important than ever to look after our mental health. I’m aware that …
My life in lockdown – 10 weeks on
Everyone has a different take on the lockdown experience. None of us knew what to expect when lockdown was announced …
What a difference a month makes…
What a different world we live in now to just over a month ago, when I wrote my last post …
Freelancing when you’re ill – a double-edged sword?
I recently retweeted a fabulous in-house job offer for a translator in a large international scientific organisation in Geneva, saying …
A decade in retrospective
Having spent yesterday taking down the Christmas decorations and giving the house a deep-clean before the first full working week …
Going greener in your office
The ITI Bulletin editor has very kindly given me permission to reproduce the original text on which my recent article …
Customer Service shambles – the sorry story of BA’s epic communication fail
I’m back again (after a very long gap – my apologies: where does time go?!) with another rant about customer …
Out with the old – in with the new
A very belated Happy New Year! And humble apologies for the two months’ silence since my last blog post. In …
I’m a translator, NOT a machine: when it’s time to say goodbye to a client
I’ve written on a couple of previous occasions about parting company with clients: sometimes this happens over time, maybe because …
