| Pages in topic: < [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18] | Moving on from freelance translation, starting a new career Thread poster: James Greenfield
|
|---|
Dan Lucas 
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:10
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL wrote:
I also live in the countryside, near Wales, and I enjoy it a lot (and my dog too).
In the Marches, Giovanni, or further north?
I think you need to be good at managing your business and putting the effort in if you want to be successful. I don't see that in many young people. Luckily, my children are bright enough.
I think the "managing your business" issue is absolutely central. Academic smarts are one thing, but the kind of shrewdness needed to succeed in business is something very different.
Dan
| | | |
Dan Lucas wrote:
In the Marches, Giovanni, or further north?
Well, very close to Herefordshire. Maybe not that close... 
| | | | TonyTK
German to English
+ ...
|
It says a lot loud and clear when a thread gets 255 answers and 25,166 views so far, doesn’t it?
| | |
|
|
|
Baran Keki
Türkiye
Local time: 07:10
Member
English to Turkish
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:
It says a lot loud and clear when a thread gets 255 answers and 25,166 views so far, doesn’t it?
It says, as one poster here aptly mentioned more than once, they 'have a lot of time on their hands'. Though, come to think of it, they must have... when there isn't much money to be made from translation in 'their personal situations'.
| | | | | "Time on their hands" | Feb 29 |
I've actually been really busy recently, so I must be some kind of superhuman multitasker and time manager.
I'll add that to the list of transferable skills.
What we need now is a longer list of jobs to which we can transfer them.
| | | | Zea_Mays
Italy
Local time: 06:10
English to German
+ ...
| most in-demand jobs on LinkedIn | Feb 29 |
https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-strategy/most-in-demand-jobs
Most In-Demand Jobs (Q4 2023)
Roles with the greatest number of paid LinkedIn job posts, Q4 (October 1 – December 31) 2023
Salesperson (no change in rank vs. previous quarter)
Retail Salesperson (+1)
Registered Nurse (+1)
Software Engineer (+1)
Project Manager (+1)
Customer Service Representative (-4)
Store Manager (+3)
Full Stack Engineer (+6)
Cashier (+6)
Driver (-2)
Jobs with the Fastest-Growing Demand (QoQ)
Roles with the greatest quarter-over-quarter increase in share of paid job posts, Q4 (October 1 – December 31) 2023 vs. Q3 (July 1 – September 30) 2023
Care Specialist
Surgical Technician
Tax Preparer
Medical Surgical Nurse
Secretary
Sonographer
Progressive Care Nurse
Home Health Licensed Practical Nurse
Customer Associate
Business Administrator
| | | | Dan Lucas
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:10
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
| Not for all of us, Tony | Feb 29 |
I doubt the OP plans to move there, but I thought he might like to know that opinions differ on Swansea. Last July I spent a day or two in London to take a professional exam. The train home from Paddington was delayed on the way back. We arrived at Swansea station so late that the connecting train had long gone and the railway had to put on a minibus to get us to Carmarthen (where my car was). We didn't get to Carmarthen until about 1 a.m., and I didn't get home until 2 a.m.
Anyway, we all clambered into this slightly shabby vehicle, and at the last moment two very drunk men got in. One of them could barely walk or talk and looked distinctly green around the gills. The minibus was already nearly full so they had to sit in the middle seats that fold down in the aisle between the seats on either side.
At this point one of the other passengers in the seat in front of the sick-looking guy eyed him suspiciously and muttered to the bloke next to him "if 'e pukes on my bag I'll give 'im a f***in' good 'idin".
I had suppress a snort of amusement, because it brought to mind this 6-second clip from the film Twin Town (warning: strong language).
So when I think of Swansea, that's what I think of.
Of course, I'm sure there are many charming aspects of Swansea that I have not yet encountered. It's a big place.
Dan
| | |
|
|
|
| OT: Svejn's Island | Feb 29 |
Dan Lucas wrote:
at the last moment two very drunk men got in
Presumably two very drunk men heading home to Carmarthen or further west...
But yes, I too thought that Swansea was a hellhole before I moved here. It's got a really bad rep everywhere further west.
You will always find a few dodgy types in the city centre, especially on High Street where the station is. They did a bad job of rebuilding Swansea after the Luftwaffe flattened it, and now, of course, half the shops are empty like almost everywhere else.
Away from the centre, you've got sun, sea, sand and sex all the way round the bay to posh Mumbles and down the Gower peninsula, the very first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It's like the Pembrokeshire coast, only with Welsh people living there.
Twin Town is a fun film, and some of it certainly rings true, but in the western suburbs it's quieter than in the Ceredigion countryside. None of those bloody sheep and cows and tractors making a racket all day and night...
| | | | Dan Lucas
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:10
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
Christopher Schröder wrote:
Dan Lucas wrote:
at the last moment two very drunk men got in
Presumably two very drunk men heading home to Carmarthen or further west...
Ferryside, if I remember correctly.
Mind you, I worked for three consecutive summers as a teenager as a cleaner at Glangwili; my shift was something like 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Obviously you get friendly with the nurses over time, and they said that the Swansea police who used to help out the local police at the weekend, and who often ended up having to visit people in A&E, called Carmarthen "the Wild West" and dreaded going up there. It was certainly a bit tasty on a Saturday night, at least in the 1980s.
And of course Pembrokeshire has its less glossy places where they keep the real locals who can unfortunately no longer afford to buy houses. Those can be quite rough. They don't call the county town Have-a-Fight-West for nothing...
Dan
| | | | | I think I said this before | Feb 29 |
Christopher Schröder wrote:
I would think admin would be a step down for almost all of us.
That is undoubtedly true but the whole background (context, even? ) of this thread is surely the hypothesis that one is likely to have to accept that matters might be sub-optimal in one's new role, for a while at least.
I'm inclined then to pre-suppose that any of the options batted around is to be viewed less favourably than doing what we do now. Otherwise we'd have changed already. The idea (to me) is just to think about what options are open. It can be taken as read (to me) that they will be worse.
| | | | | Pages in topic: < [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18] | To report site rules violations or get help, contact a site moderator: You can also contact site staff by submitting a support request » Moving on from freelance translation, starting a new career | TM-Town | Manage your TMs and Terms ... and boost your translation business
Are you ready for something fresh in the industry? TM-Town is a unique new site for you -- the freelance translator -- to store, manage and share translation memories (TMs) and glossaries...and potentially meet new clients on the basis of your prior work.
More info » |
| | Protemos translation business management system | Create your account in minutes, and start working! 3-month trial for agencies, and free for freelancers!
The system lets you keep client/vendor database, with contacts and rates, manage projects and assign jobs to vendors, issue invoices, track payments, store and manage project files, generate business reports on turnover profit per client/manager etc.
More info » |
|
| | | | X Sign in to your ProZ.com account... | | | | | |
Login to reply/comment 
Translation news
