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Mid-month pause...
Dec. 15th, 2006 10:52 amIt was fortunate that I glanced into my ProZ mail folder, their membership campaign ends today (extra month tacked on, a prize contest for participants). I figure that since I plan to resign from the ATA, I should probably maintain contact with at least one professional group.
Or maybe start one, if I had the time and inclination.
In any event, I renewed my membership, on the basis that despite the paltry market available though ProZ (many of the "outsourcers" are primarily interested in "cheap," though they pay the requisite lip service to "good" and "fast"), overall, my membership has been a positive investment.
(I'm wondering, now, where my two recent new clients came from. I should probably ask, eh?)
* * * I've had thoughts on building an interactive vocabulary-building application, as my scattered moments with the old-fashioned kind of flash card during the cruise left me wondering, sometimes, as to what the actual meaning was of the words I was looking at.
* * * I also need to find a better way to do my work invoices. The way this is currently done, I open an old invoice (to retain address and some other information) and then modify it for the new job. I often save on top of the old invoice, which wastes time, but this year have also had the experience of using duplicate invoice numbers (twice) and I just got through figuring out that once, I actually double-invoiced a set of documents on different dates (instead of invoicing a second assignment).
I had played around with an open source program that did this kind of thing, but it basically called for generating one invoice per job, and while some clients like that approach (and one or two insist on it), it seems to me to only make life difficult. (Then again, if it's a free solution that your clients don't object to and sometimes even crave, your problem with it is... what exactly?)
* * * I also need to edit the monthly payments in our list of automatic monthly payments, when I get a chance.
Hmmm. This is starting to look like a to-do list.
Cheers...
Or maybe start one, if I had the time and inclination.
In any event, I renewed my membership, on the basis that despite the paltry market available though ProZ (many of the "outsourcers" are primarily interested in "cheap," though they pay the requisite lip service to "good" and "fast"), overall, my membership has been a positive investment.
(I'm wondering, now, where my two recent new clients came from. I should probably ask, eh?)
I had played around with an open source program that did this kind of thing, but it basically called for generating one invoice per job, and while some clients like that approach (and one or two insist on it), it seems to me to only make life difficult. (Then again, if it's a free solution that your clients don't object to and sometimes even crave, your problem with it is... what exactly?)
Hmmm. This is starting to look like a to-do list.
Cheers...
