katajainen

Working in your pyjamas - not simply because you can, but because you've been too busy doing disaster control to change. It's now 3pm, and you're also starving.

Having to update your CV every damn year, sometimes several times, for different clients and different speciality angles (also different formats). You're always surprised when it comes to stating the length of your experience (Have I done this that long? But I still don't know zilch!), but you still cringe over having to make yourself look good.

Outsourcers who fail to grasp the concept of "free" in "freelancer" - they "assign" jobs to you, without failing to ask whether you perhaps might have a job for another client (gods forbid) in the works. Or, only reply to your enthusiastic "Yes I can take this job, give it to me!" email 3 days later, when you've already filled your week with other (much more boring) jobs and have to (yet again) explain the principle of first-come-first-served using very short words.

Slowly but surely getting a stress ulcer from not giving incompetent twats a piece of your mind - yes, because they're people too, and often you get the impression they're also over-worked and over-stressed, but more importantly because you still need them to keep sending job offers your way.

Having to explain, time and again, that yes, my language has a multitude of grammatical cases, and yes, the nouns and adjectives inflect accordingly, and YES, that's why your oh-so-clever QA tool keeps giving me 3k+ false positives from a job with a barely 5k wordcount (not even kidding here, I'm afraid).

Not being able to blame the middle management for work overload - you ARE the middle management (you're also the tech support, accounting and caretaker).

Current Mood: stressed
Current Location: super-glued to the office chair
Current Music: Ennio Morricone: For A Few Dollars More

...and really I didn't miss a thing. It's an utter, complete, stupid clusterfuck. A giant dumpster fire. (I mean more than usual.)

So I set my queue back up and logged out again. I'm going to post a fic rec on Friday as usual (crosspost here), and I'll need to clean up some outdated posts from the blog at some point, but otherwise... I'm just too tired to give a flying fuck. I've posts queued up for the next two weeks or so, and more waiting in the drafts if I want to go back, but right now -- I just can't.

Maybe sometime next year. Maybe not. Maybe this could be home.

Current Mood: drained

Why oh WHY can't I remember NOT to hit enter after each tag like you do on Tumblr? Because here, it apparently publishes the whole godsdamned post, skipping the preview and everything.

ARGH

(It's exactly as annoying as switching between two different CAT tools only to find out the same shortcut key that does X on tool A, does Y on tool B. I'm too damn old to recondition my reflexes every two damn hours.)

Current Mood: annoyed

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Some pet peeves about working freelance in the translation industry - a non-exhaustive list

I just went and took a peek at Tumblr...

The shorcut issue

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