tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2618029197139250711.post5834986117239611804..comments2024-03-25T03:02:08.418-07:00Comments on Translation Times: Do NothingJudy Jenner and Dagmar Jennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991071510108619107noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2618029197139250711.post-65641585271497871382015-07-27T13:41:29.420-07:002015-07-27T13:41:29.420-07:00@Lukasz: Thanks for your lovely comment! We weren&...@Lukasz: Thanks for your lovely comment! We weren't really planning on writing a longer post on this, but thanks for the suggestion. Maybe we will in the future! And we completely agree: our lovely colleagues are indeed very intelligent and resourceful indeed. An impulse is always good, for both followers and leaders, and it's usually best when it comes from the outside! We sometimes need them, too.Judy Jenner and Dagmar Jennerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15991071510108619107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2618029197139250711.post-8261065567931989912015-07-26T07:01:23.472-07:002015-07-26T07:01:23.472-07:00Perhaps you'd like to write a longer, more det...Perhaps you'd like to write a longer, more detailed post some other day about the baby-steps methodology, so to say? (E.g. SMART goals with emphasis on the A, with a couple of real examples.) In my experience, translators tend to be quite intelligent and resourceful people, definitely not strangers to hard work, either, but most are followers rather than leaders. Followers aren't 'worse', they're just different. They don't even always need a leader to hold their hand and pull their weight, but sometimes just to give them the initial impulse, to start their engines and supply the fuel for the first couple hundred miles of the way.Łukasz Gos-Furmankiewiczhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08918639829529412108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2618029197139250711.post-85710068601068761122015-06-26T09:05:45.437-07:002015-06-26T09:05:45.437-07:00@Alison: Thanks so much for reading and commenting...@Alison: Thanks so much for reading and commenting. We are so happy to hear that you got out of the rut and that you'd already done so many things to change the status quo. Excellent that you talked about this at the ITI conference, I bet our colleagues found that most helpful indeed. Change is hard indeed, but it's so worth it! And we so agree that building your confidence is key, too. Happy Friday.Judy Jenner and Dagmar Jennerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15991071510108619107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2618029197139250711.post-66548590610450633652015-06-26T01:32:35.093-07:002015-06-26T01:32:35.093-07:00So agree. I was stuck in a rut for years due to fa...So agree. I was stuck in a rut for years due to family and budget constraints but when things did change, and I had more time and money to actively look for new clients, I realised I'd done a lot of the groundwork in baby steps (going to small-scale events, volunteering for ITI and even latterly social media etc). There are so many little things you can do that make a difference, even if all they do is build your confidence. I actually talked about this at the ITI Conference in April. Alison Hugheshttp://alisonhughes-translations.co.uknoreply@blogger.com