Day off! I call it!

[alexpgp]

As I've doubtless noted before, one of the down sides of the translation racket is being called upon to routinely do work on weekends and holidays. This make a strange kind of sense, when you consider this kind of arrangement works very well for clients. (Imagine it's Friday afternoon and the client has just received a document from a foreign colleague. What better than to send it to the translator, with a deadline of Monday morning? That way, the client's work flow experiences minimum disruption.)

My first experience working in-house as a "visiting" freelancer was during a Memorial Day weekend, and after I joined the staff of that company, it was a routine practice to engage freelancers to come in and work on holiday weekends to allow the staff some time off.

So, despite the fact that I have, really, nowhere to go (and no vehicle in which to go nowhere), I plan to take this as a day off.

BTW, I woke at 2 am recalling that there were still some open questions in the document I had sent off last night, so I pulled on the slippers, went downstairs and took care of them. While I was up, I also took care of the figure keys and sent off the whole thing!

The plate is empty. The to-do list for invoicing threatens to topple. I may do it today, I might not.

Y'all have yourselves a great Washington's Birthday!

Cheers...

Comments

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

There's something about catching up on some tasks on one's "day off" that feels somehow like you're cheating the system. Maybe you, too, can get some work done on the "weekend" and come back to work with it miraculously done!

[love337.livejournal.com]

Love ya :)