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dchenesMy landlord has just caught two feral kittens in the back yard. They're a brother and sister, both tabby. I wish my circumstances were different and I could ask to keep them. Unfortunately, even if I hadn't just moved in, I can't afford vet bills and cat food and all until I've been employed for a while.
On the other hand, having finally argued my e-mail into submission, I got a message from one of my former professors, with contact information for a possible freelance FR-EN medical translation job. So I've got another place to send a resume on Monday. If I got the whole job (meaning if they didn't split it among three or four translators), it would pay $1800, which is a month's rent and a good chunk of the credit card bill. It's a 30,000-word project and they're paying $.06 per word. Which, according to my Project Management class, is so low as to be ridiculous, but I've seen a lot of postings for either $.06 per word or .06 euros per word.
Sometimes being a responsible adult is a pain in the neck, but we all know that.
On the other hand, having finally argued my e-mail into submission, I got a message from one of my former professors, with contact information for a possible freelance FR-EN medical translation job. So I've got another place to send a resume on Monday. If I got the whole job (meaning if they didn't split it among three or four translators), it would pay $1800, which is a month's rent and a good chunk of the credit card bill. It's a 30,000-word project and they're paying $.06 per word. Which, according to my Project Management class, is so low as to be ridiculous, but I've seen a lot of postings for either $.06 per word or .06 euros per word.
Sometimes being a responsible adult is a pain in the neck, but we all know that.
