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Cup runs over, disappears in rising liquid...
An exchange comes back to me from the ATA conference, in which a principal at an agency I've been known to work for asks how the work flow has been, and I respond that it's been pretty good, though I've recently had to refuse work from her agency two or three times. "Well," she says, "don't keep saying 'no' or else we'll stop calling."
This wasn't expressed as any kind of threat, just a fact of life. And it's not any kind of spiteful act on the part of the agency; it's simply that project managers tend to assign projects to people who can do the job (rare enough) who can be counted on to be available.
I have known this for quite some time, and didn't need reminding, but it occurs to me that when the only jobs this agency keeps called me up for are of the oh-crap-we-need-four-thousand-words-by-tomorrow-morning kind, maybe I'd be better off?
Anyway, client #2 has sent about 7K words for ASAP, but my ASAP is Sunday night right now. Then client #1 sends 20K words. This is on top of the 4K words I have from my best client for tonight, and three days of interpretation support starting tomorrow.
The only way this is going to work is if #1 - who is pretty good with deadlines (meaning, he hardly ever imposes any) - doesn't have an urgent need to see translations until next week.
No time to worry about that, though. I've just finished OCRing the PDF for today's ration of paycheck, so I better get to it.
Cheers...
This wasn't expressed as any kind of threat, just a fact of life. And it's not any kind of spiteful act on the part of the agency; it's simply that project managers tend to assign projects to people who can do the job (rare enough) who can be counted on to be available.
I have known this for quite some time, and didn't need reminding, but it occurs to me that when the only jobs this agency keeps called me up for are of the oh-crap-we-need-four-thousand-words-by-tomorrow-morning kind, maybe I'd be better off?
Anyway, client #2 has sent about 7K words for ASAP, but my ASAP is Sunday night right now. Then client #1 sends 20K words. This is on top of the 4K words I have from my best client for tonight, and three days of interpretation support starting tomorrow.
The only way this is going to work is if #1 - who is pretty good with deadlines (meaning, he hardly ever imposes any) - doesn't have an urgent need to see translations until next week.
No time to worry about that, though. I've just finished OCRing the PDF for today's ration of paycheck, so I better get to it.
Cheers...