I’ve had a Blackberry for about 6 months now and it has changed my life. No joke. It has changed my life, but in ways that have been surprising. The amazing ease of viewing emails which appear instantaneously on its screen like text messages is notoriously mesmerizing and hard to ignore, but has allowed me [...]

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This is me on the Inca Trail last year, having just climbed Warmiwañuska at 4215m altitude and in rather wet conditions…it was a very tough climb but the satisfaction of completing it was a huge reward. I am likening this experience (in the metaphysical sense of course) to my long-awaited departure from the world of [...]

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AnPr?s: A ?nica coisa boa dele mesmo ? o que todo o mundo sabe, retira trechos de m?sicas para fazer toques cel em formato MP3. interesting discussion at David’s English Teaching World talks about appropriate times to make career transitions in EFL teaching, but the points raised by contributors apply to most types of careers [...]

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When I tell colleagues and friends that I am leaving my ’safe’ staff translation job the first thing they ask me is always “So what are you going to do?”. When I tell them that actually, I will be becoming a self-employed translator, a (whisper it) freelancer, I am invariably greeted with a mixture of [...]

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Another excellent bit of advice at freelanceswitch.com, this time entitled ‘The 10 biggest mistakes freelancers make and how to avoid them‘. I know that this post has been added to other blogs already but it deserves to be circulated in cyberspace as much as possible.

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