I haven't been posting a lot for a while. Even though April hasn't been that good financially (not bad exactly, but not good either),...

Lately, I've been posting less on LinkedIn. Basically, I'm shocked by the way people, including me sometimes, are just mean on social...

This week, I gained and lost two big jobs in a flash. Why? In one of the two cases, for circumstantial reasons over which I had no...

I'm becoming more and more a translator "by default". What does it mean? I'm realising that even though translation remains my main...

I'm back on LinkedIn after a well-deserved holiday, and I must say I'm appalled at the level of aggressivity posts and comments are...

Two weeks ago, I put my out-of-office on for the first time since 2012. Of course, I ended up replying to all my emails as I received...

Episode 2: Give them what they want. My last post was about those unbearable overachieving PMs, which we've all been if we started our...

Episode 1: Not my cup of tea, but hey Recently, I've worked on a complicated translation project with a PM I didn't find particularly...

This summer has been hectic, as I've been travelling and moving around with my family... while working. Yesterday was my very first real...

For some translators in certain niches, it's just another day at the office: they only translate a few long manuscripts, books, reports...