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Day of the Freelancers
The spouse who has the free lance gig is always the one who picks up the dry cleaning. act as a cyber exchange primarily for web designers, and something called an "optimizer" which The Oxford Russian Dictionary does not recognize. have to say, freelancing is harder than the pajama clad Nirvana HRH seems to think it is. It takes a lot of motivation to stop alphabetizing your DVD collection, or perfecting your sorrel soup recipe, and get down to work without the stimulus of a boss or snarky colleagues surrounding you. Deadlines help, as does a faux office such as Starbucks to "go to" each day, which you realize early on is the only way to get anything done. least, I've found it so. Home, as I have mentioned before, is way too distracting.
I don't want to reveal any secrets of the guild, but the fact of the matter is that Russia is a freelancer Klondike. If you are a native English speaker, you have opportunities. you are a native English speaker with a passing knowledge of the rudiments of English grammar, you can live very comfortably. If you are a native English speaker who knows Russian, and therefore can interpret what Russians are trying to say and express it better than Google Translate, avoiding mistakes like the opening salutation of a letter reading, "Expensive Mr. Smith," then you can start planning for a second home. if, like me, you can do all those uggs on sale for women in clearance fox fur things AND you worked at A Bank and uggs on sale know how to use words like "synergy," "expedite," and "galvanize" (concepts which do not really exist in Russian and thus are often used erroneously by thrusting Russian bankers and lawyers), then you can allow yourself the delicious luxury of having this kind of conversation with Olga Quelque Chose, who calls you up on a Friday afternoon from Minigarch Trust in desperate need to have her classic short sparkles ugg [url=http://www.cheapbootssale70offwomen.top/]Cheap UGG Boots On Sale boots clearance[/url] Annual Report translated from English by Google Translate, into English by me:
Me: never really works well, does it? I hope Dee Dee told you that I don't do second drafts to incorporate non native English speaking lawyers' comments.
Olga Quelque Chose: Yes, she did. We're okay with that. How much would you want to be paid?Olga Quelque Chose: sharp intake of breath]
Me: Quelque Chose: seems a lot. had other bids of ten.
Me: YesI'm sure you have. had a number of contracts to clean up work in that price range latelybut it's up to you.
This halcyon period of my life in Russia was incredibly satisfying, not to mention obscenely lucrative.
Dear Reader:
Thank you so much for stopping by Dividing My Time on my very own personal holiday. you a freelancer too? What's your favorite story? you want the recipe for sorrel soup? you want Olga Quelque Chose e mail, women ugg bailey button triplet 1873 sand boots don you?
Day of the Freelancers / : The Pajama Clad Workforce
The spouse who has the free lance gig is always the one who picks up the dry cleaning. act as a cyber exchange primarily for web designers, and something called an "optimizer" which The Oxford Russian Dictionary does not recognize. have to say, freelancing is harder than the pajama clad Nirvana HRH seems to think it is. It takes a lot of motivation to stop alphabetizing your DVD collection, or perfecting your sorrel soup recipe, and get down to work without the stimulus of a boss or snarky colleagues surrounding you. Deadlines help, as does a faux office such as Starbucks to "go to" each day, which you realize early on is the only way to get anything done. least, I've found it so. Home, as I have mentioned before, is way too distracting.
I don't want to reveal any secrets of the guild, but the fact of the matter is that Russia is a freelancer Klondike. If you are a native English speaker, you have opportunities. you are a native English speaker with a passing knowledge of the rudiments of English grammar, you can live very comfortably. If you are a native English speaker who knows Russian, and therefore can interpret what Russians are trying to say and express it better than Google Translate, avoiding mistakes like the opening salutation of a letter reading, "Expensive Mr. Smith," then you can start planning for a second home. if, like me, you can do all those things AND you worked at A Bank and know how to use words like "synergy," "expedite," and "galvanize" (concepts which do not really exist in Russian and thus are often used erroneously by thrusting Russian bankers and lawyers), then you can allow yourself the delicious luxury of having this kind of conversation with Olga Quelque Chose, who calls you up on a Friday afternoon from Minigarch Trust in desperate need to have her Annual Report translated from English by Google Translate, into English by me:
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