Why Environment Matters You might be superbly alert and focused, fired up to keep working on a lucrative job, but if you’re tormented by aching and stiffness in your neck and shoulders, wrists, and back, or by sore eyes and a headache, you won’t be getting the benefit from that good start. Even if you […]
The adverse effects of short sleep are getting a lot more attention lately, perhaps because research is starting to look at the damage to GDP. The problem is more likely to get attention when it becomes obvious that nations and companies are losing real money, so it’s not just a personal problem. In Japan, where […]
Conventional wisdom is that you should get direct clients, either as an individual freelancer or by setting up as a company, because agencies skim too much off the top. I can see the logic, but I’m not convinced. If you’re really focused on doing one thing well, translation, it makes sense to spend as much […]