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Freelancing when you’re ill – a double-edged sword?

February 19, 2020

I recently retweeted a fabulous in-house job offer for a translator in a large international scientific organisation in Geneva, saying …

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Dear Dragon…

January 20, 2020

As you may (or may not) be aware, I’m a long-time user of your speech recognition software. I first started …

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A decade in retrospective

January 6, 2020

Having spent yesterday taking down the Christmas decorations and giving the house a deep-clean before the first full working week …

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Going greener in your office

October 3, 2019

The ITI Bulletin editor has very kindly given me permission to reproduce the original text on which my recent article …

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I’m a translator, NOT a machine: when it’s time to say goodbye to a client

November 5, 2018

I’ve written on a couple of previous occasions about parting company with clients: sometimes this happens over time, maybe because …

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It never rains but it pours…

October 15, 2018

I was going to call this blog post “Best laid plans”, but as things got progressively worse last week, I …

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Getting my head out of the sand…

May 23, 2018

Like the proverbial ostrich, I’m afraid I’ve left it rather late to get my head out of the sand and …

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Focus on Studio

March 17, 2018

Last week I was invited to attend another SDL Trados focus group, following on from the one I’d attended well …

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Praise indeed…

February 21, 2018

I’ve been spurred on to write this post by the warm reception to a tweet I posted last week, commenting …

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Online 24/7 – really?

February 6, 2018

This post was inspired by a recent early bird booking period for the BP2018 Conference, which was announced on a …

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