Successful Freelancing with ADHD and Other Brain-Based Conditions
If you continuously struggle to stay organized and tend to work long hours to compensate for daily distractions, learning about productivity can mean wading…
Ready to Plan for a Mid- to Long-Term Medical Leave? Part 2
In the last post, we looked at the financial issues underpinning a need for COVID-related medical leave. This week, we turn to organizational issues.…
Ready to Plan for a Mid- to Long-Term Medical Leave? Part 1
The idea for this post was born on my most stressful day in recent memory: the day I took three of my children to…
How to Get Approved for a Mortgage as a Self-Employed Person
Imagine if you could freeze your rent payment forever. Now imagine that it could disappear by the time you retire. That financial advantage is…
Teamwork: The Pros and Cons of Being a Lone Wolf or a Pack Animal
This post is a reblog, originally published on Nikki Graham’s blog, My Words for a Change, and later published in the ATA Chronicle. It…
How’s Your English?
Most of us have heard it before: To be a good translator, you have to be a good writer. Today this maxim is truer…
Enhanced Productivity with Text Expansion
This post is a reblog, originally published in the Audiovisual Division Part of the American Translators Association’s Deep Focus Newsletter, Issue 7 in 2020. It…
How to Use Your Website to Get Translation Clients
This is a summary post from Tess Whitty’s ebook Quick Start Guide: 10 Steps to an Optimized Website, published in 2019. Having a website…
Scams and Default to Truth
This post is a reblog, originally published on the Austin Area Translators & Interpreters Association blog. It is reposted with permission from the author.…
Setting Goals for Your Freelance Business: An Important Job Satisfaction Tool
I have been teaching business classes for freelance translators for about 15 years, so I’ve seen “under the hood” of many freelancers’ businesses. The…
When School Comes Home: Making Room in the Day for Distance Learning
This article originally appeared in the ATA Chronicle-Online. Once upon a time, in a land that now seems very far away, many parents were…