Home again!
Oct. 17th, 2008 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpIt's been something of a long day, but I am home again, and it's good to be back!
The day went pretty much as scheduled, and I appear to have caught up on all of the lost sleep of the past few days. I slept during the hop from Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev, during the leg from Kiev to Frankfurt, and for most of the flight back to the States. The process involved three security checks, too, one for the domestic Ukraine flight, the second for the international flight leaving Ukraine, and a third to accommodate US requirements leaving Frankfurt.
Of the two connections, the one in Frankfurt had me a little worried, as I only had 85 minutes between landing and takeoff, and I had been warned that the security line could be a major time sink, but as it turned out, pretty much all of the passengers on my flight had already gone through the check quite a while previously.
We taxied for nearly half an hour after landing at JFK, which I tried to be calm about, but as it turned out, my whole flow from deplaning, through passport control, luggage pickup, Customs, and the AirTrain put me in great position for the next LIRR diesel for Oyster Bay.
There doesn't seem to be anything in the email that I can do about right now, and I'll have to try to rest tomorrow for what promises to be a pretty intensive bilateral meeting next week.
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The day went pretty much as scheduled, and I appear to have caught up on all of the lost sleep of the past few days. I slept during the hop from Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev, during the leg from Kiev to Frankfurt, and for most of the flight back to the States. The process involved three security checks, too, one for the domestic Ukraine flight, the second for the international flight leaving Ukraine, and a third to accommodate US requirements leaving Frankfurt.
Of the two connections, the one in Frankfurt had me a little worried, as I only had 85 minutes between landing and takeoff, and I had been warned that the security line could be a major time sink, but as it turned out, pretty much all of the passengers on my flight had already gone through the check quite a while previously.
We taxied for nearly half an hour after landing at JFK, which I tried to be calm about, but as it turned out, my whole flow from deplaning, through passport control, luggage pickup, Customs, and the AirTrain put me in great position for the next LIRR diesel for Oyster Bay.
There doesn't seem to be anything in the email that I can do about right now, and I'll have to try to rest tomorrow for what promises to be a pretty intensive bilateral meeting next week.
The voting in LJ Idol this week is limited to members of the LJ Idol community. If you're a member (or will become one at
therealljidol to help support your favorite traveling interpreter), the poll is located here.Cheers...
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Date: 2008-10-18 04:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-19 12:06 am (UTC)Cheers...
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Date: 2008-10-19 05:31 am (UTC)Can I ask, do you get enough work? As in, enough work to support yourself as a translator? I have been working as such for the last 2-3 years, and would really like to continue in this profession, however it seems that, apart from nice contracts, it's a tricky profession money-wise? Or is it just here, in Australia?
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Date: 2008-10-22 10:19 am (UTC)During the first few years of my freelance career, I was not earning much at all, and wondering seriously how anyone could make enough at translation to keep body and soul together.
At the time - and this is about three decades ago - I was earning about 1.6 cents per source word. Unbelievably, there are clients that pay that rate today. There are also clients that pay ten times that and more, and the trick is to find them. And keep them.
To answer your question: yes, I get enough work. There are times - such as right now - when I have more work than I know what to do with.
I'd be happy to answer any additional questions you might have, though I'd prefer we take them offline. You can drop me an email at the address listed in my profile.
Cheers...