Load-shedding – when meetings and calls get too much
How meetings and calls get too much when you are managing tinnitus and a cognitively demanding job.
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Category: Work/life balance
Busting the 100% productivity myth: great(ly exaggerated corporate) expectations
100% efficiency is an illusion – despite any claims of the corporate world to the contrary. Don’t beat yourself up about it, but make sure you communicate clearly with your customer from the outset.
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Not just a one-trick pony – How job crafting works
An in-house translator may be viewed as a “one-trick pony”. They just translate all the time, right? How non-translation-based activities can help translators to flourish.
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It’s good to talk about LangTech – and to attend physical meetings
Why presence meetings still have a role and also why we need to talk about LangTech.
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Understanding your time/activity sheets: getting more out and analysing them to propose a simplification
Every considered the link between a London taxi and time/activity logging and charging strategies for translators?
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All Quiet on the Translation Front
Did imposter syndrome issues stem from a poor result in a degree module? Handling imposter syndrome and perfectionism as a translator.
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How in-house translators spend their holiday(s)
Does a translator really switch off? Or do they end up looking for translation errors in restaurant menus. Three lists are key to me in switching off.
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Colleagues, Translators, Interpreters – look after your ears!
Although I am not (yet) a member of the ITI, I follow their content on LinkedIn, and one recent post
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