The cup overfloweth...

[alexpgp]

Man, 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...

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[brenk.livejournal.com]

Alex, Alex... it's *always* like that *g* And of course there's that horrible feeling 'I have to do it because next week / month / year might be a desert and if I turn client X down this time he might not come back'. We moan about too little, too much... but I guess we should have known what we were getting into.

But it doesn't make it any easier, does it!

This from she who recklessly accepted another humungous pension-fund thing yesterday in addition to the around 12,000 words lined up for next week. And why I'm sitting here now instead of having that elusive thing that is a weekend.

Keep smiling :)

PS (to save time on going to mail... the CD is burned and will be mailed Monday