Thoughts on Translation

open source accounting software GnuCash

Translation Office 3000

get out of your sweats

churn it out

if you’re very good at what you do and you market yourself fairly assertively, there is enough work out there to earn at least $75,000 a year as a freelance translator even if you work with a mix of agencies and direct clients. I’d say that at this point, all of the translators I know who work exclusively with direct clients earn at least $100,000 a year.

pass muster with

I find OpenOffice to be a far more pleasant word processor than its proprietary equivalents, but no amount of work will make translation environment tools that run from within Microsoft Word (i.e.Wordfast Classic) work in OpenOffice. The incompatibility of Word macros and OpenOffice macros is just too great.

touting the benefits of working from home

hemming and hawing

venting and ranting