Post by habiba123820 on Nov 6, 2024 19:31:26 GMT 10
How much frustration is involved in the translation jobs you have now? Didn’t you get into this field of work because you love the language and want to enjoy doing language-related things all day? We’re guessing the dream is to get rid of the frustrations, the wasted efforts, the underpaid and understaffed projects. The trick is just to find those language service providers (LSPs) who share your values .
When you do translation work from home, you can expect respect, transparency, cutting-edge tools, generous support, real choice, and a positive and welcoming work environment. These are all things that can bring us together as an industry community.
Common headaches in freelance translation projects
You’ve no doubt received job offers from LSPs that made you feel like a mushroom—kept in the dark and treated as if you were interchangeable with every other translator. It’s completely common practice for wordpress web design agency LSPs to offer projects to the first available linguist, regardless of whether they’re a good fit for the job, and to favor certain translators for reasons other than their talents. You’ve probably also been in this situation where you’ve been offered a job, but have little context to make a confident decision about whether to accept or decline.
This lack of transparency and support from the outset is likely indicative of the working conditions you’ll face in the future. Many PSPs don’t even think about providing glossaries, translation memories, or reference material for their translators—or aren’t willing to spend the resources necessary for such a comprehensive toolkit. More PSPs than you might think are still behind the curve when it comes to technology and tools for translators and clients.
While the ideal scenario is that you operate on an intuitive, streamlined platform with generous resources and direct contact with the client and your product, the downside of this is that you are wasting time, energy and sanity organizing files, searching for support and waiting. You may be waiting for jobs, waiting for communications, waiting to get paid. Or, on the other hand, you may be in a rush when the vendor doesn’t respect reasonable deadlines and your life takes a back seat. Can you be paid what you’re worth? For work that you can enjoy and stand behind? With the tools and support to take your translations to the next level and help evolve the product in question?
What home translation work should be like
There are better translation job opportunities to be found. But you have to know how to find them. To start, let’s think about what a really attractive translation job would look like.
Transparency
Sure, it’s great to work from home. But distance and blind spots make it even harder to achieve things like transparency. And it makes it even easier for companies that don’t value transparency to hide things and unfairly leverage their own interests. Ultimately, transparency is a sign of respect. When an LSP takes the time to detail what work they have, who it’s for, and how much it pays, that’s a baseline level of respect and transparency. You should be able to take it for granted. But beyond that, you want to believe that they genuinely value your time and talent, and value the customer and the product. Be brave enough to demand a commitment to transparency from all parties.
When you do translation work from home, you can expect respect, transparency, cutting-edge tools, generous support, real choice, and a positive and welcoming work environment. These are all things that can bring us together as an industry community.
Common headaches in freelance translation projects
You’ve no doubt received job offers from LSPs that made you feel like a mushroom—kept in the dark and treated as if you were interchangeable with every other translator. It’s completely common practice for wordpress web design agency LSPs to offer projects to the first available linguist, regardless of whether they’re a good fit for the job, and to favor certain translators for reasons other than their talents. You’ve probably also been in this situation where you’ve been offered a job, but have little context to make a confident decision about whether to accept or decline.
This lack of transparency and support from the outset is likely indicative of the working conditions you’ll face in the future. Many PSPs don’t even think about providing glossaries, translation memories, or reference material for their translators—or aren’t willing to spend the resources necessary for such a comprehensive toolkit. More PSPs than you might think are still behind the curve when it comes to technology and tools for translators and clients.
While the ideal scenario is that you operate on an intuitive, streamlined platform with generous resources and direct contact with the client and your product, the downside of this is that you are wasting time, energy and sanity organizing files, searching for support and waiting. You may be waiting for jobs, waiting for communications, waiting to get paid. Or, on the other hand, you may be in a rush when the vendor doesn’t respect reasonable deadlines and your life takes a back seat. Can you be paid what you’re worth? For work that you can enjoy and stand behind? With the tools and support to take your translations to the next level and help evolve the product in question?
What home translation work should be like
There are better translation job opportunities to be found. But you have to know how to find them. To start, let’s think about what a really attractive translation job would look like.
Transparency
Sure, it’s great to work from home. But distance and blind spots make it even harder to achieve things like transparency. And it makes it even easier for companies that don’t value transparency to hide things and unfairly leverage their own interests. Ultimately, transparency is a sign of respect. When an LSP takes the time to detail what work they have, who it’s for, and how much it pays, that’s a baseline level of respect and transparency. You should be able to take it for granted. But beyond that, you want to believe that they genuinely value your time and talent, and value the customer and the product. Be brave enough to demand a commitment to transparency from all parties.