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The cup overfloweth...
Mar. 28th, 2003 05:34 pmMan, I tell you, the fairy godmother department (translator division) was working overtime today.
I got a call this morning to do an urgent 18-page job. It's a fax, with small, sometimes hard-to-read text.
Of course, I accepted. Not being electronic, the document is not easy to estimate, but it looks to be an 8,000-9,000 word job, and is due ASAP tomorrow, but no later than 3 pm.
Wouldn't you know, I get another call - from another client - in the early afternoon, and they have something that needs translating and is due on Tuesday, first thing in the morning. I forget, exactly, how big the job is, but it's something like 5,000-6,000 words of source text, contained in a Word file.
I accepted that job, too.
Thus far today, I've done nearly 5,000 words of the first job, and while the afternoon is waning, the evening is still young! (Actually, I plan to knock off after another two pages, which will leave me 4 pages to do tomorrow. There's no use wearing myself out.)
Cheers...
I got a call this morning to do an urgent 18-page job. It's a fax, with small, sometimes hard-to-read text.
Of course, I accepted. Not being electronic, the document is not easy to estimate, but it looks to be an 8,000-9,000 word job, and is due ASAP tomorrow, but no later than 3 pm.
Wouldn't you know, I get another call - from another client - in the early afternoon, and they have something that needs translating and is due on Tuesday, first thing in the morning. I forget, exactly, how big the job is, but it's something like 5,000-6,000 words of source text, contained in a Word file.
I accepted that job, too.
Thus far today, I've done nearly 5,000 words of the first job, and while the afternoon is waning, the evening is still young! (Actually, I plan to knock off after another two pages, which will leave me 4 pages to do tomorrow. There's no use wearing myself out.)
Cheers...
