Another quiet Friday...
Jan. 10th, 2003 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpMy, but these daily reports seem to be so-o-o repetitive: Get up. Go to store. Do report. Come home. Work.
I've been getting some mysterious phone calls from people who would like to use my resume in their proposals. All the calls seem to be for the same project. The only flaw in the project - in my perhaps arrogant view - is that if the end client insists on having all work done by dedicated translators at the client's premises, the winning team is not going to be staffed by very many experienced translators.
Experienced freelancers have an existing customer base (or they don't last). Asking such persons to abandon those customers for 18 months or so and dedicate themselves to one client is not something you do lightly, or with the expectation that said freelancer will jump at the opportunity to demolish a painstakingly built "practice," experience the joy of relocation (or extended stays in hotel rooms), and so on.
Not unless the rates you offer are scrumptiously attractive, which is not typically the case in the industry. (Indeed, one of the parties that called me is well known for offering rates that are 50-60% of what one might consider "mediocre" rates - you read that correctly - and who tehn tries to sweeten the deal by offering high volumes of such work!)
* * * Sasha finally responded to the medication I gave her this morning at 2 am. When I got back from the store, she was gingerly walking around the upstairs, in a circuit that took her from the hall, to the living room, the dining room, the kitchen, and back to the hall. After a little while, I figured exercise would be beneficial for us both, and took her for a short walk. I winded myself with little effort, which did not make me a particularly happy camper, but I'm happy to have taken the time for the walk.
Today was Brady's last day at the store. He's leaving for his adventure on Monday. I hope he does not chance across any misadventure while helping search for sunken treasure off the coast of Chile.
Galina is intent on driving down to Houston starting Monday. There had been some talk of her going down with a local resident who had business down there, too, but that did not pan out, so Galina's going to be doing all the driving, which will put her ETA in Houston at sometime on Tuesday, I suspect in the afternoon.
It's going to be lonely here, all by myself. I think I'll go upstairs and break out the foot cream.
Cheers...
I've been getting some mysterious phone calls from people who would like to use my resume in their proposals. All the calls seem to be for the same project. The only flaw in the project - in my perhaps arrogant view - is that if the end client insists on having all work done by dedicated translators at the client's premises, the winning team is not going to be staffed by very many experienced translators.
Experienced freelancers have an existing customer base (or they don't last). Asking such persons to abandon those customers for 18 months or so and dedicate themselves to one client is not something you do lightly, or with the expectation that said freelancer will jump at the opportunity to demolish a painstakingly built "practice," experience the joy of relocation (or extended stays in hotel rooms), and so on.
Not unless the rates you offer are scrumptiously attractive, which is not typically the case in the industry. (Indeed, one of the parties that called me is well known for offering rates that are 50-60% of what one might consider "mediocre" rates - you read that correctly - and who tehn tries to sweeten the deal by offering high volumes of such work!)
Today was Brady's last day at the store. He's leaving for his adventure on Monday. I hope he does not chance across any misadventure while helping search for sunken treasure off the coast of Chile.
Galina is intent on driving down to Houston starting Monday. There had been some talk of her going down with a local resident who had business down there, too, but that did not pan out, so Galina's going to be doing all the driving, which will put her ETA in Houston at sometime on Tuesday, I suspect in the afternoon.
It's going to be lonely here, all by myself. I think I'll go upstairs and break out the foot cream.
Cheers...
