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Working as a translator and travelling
Karel’s letters written during travellingLetters written when working while travelling, part 5. Working as a translator and travelling They need to call the translator, talk to them on the phone and get confirmation they can do a translation. How stupid. I check my email every two hours. Or I can turn my phone on if they really really need an immediate response, but I’ve been running my agency for a decade and two hours is plenty early enough to get confirmation from a translator. Just plain idiots and I don’t even want to deal with them. I can write a long list of idiotic reasons why various Czech agencies are not sending me work but it would just take too much time. Glad the wedding thing is working out. If i do make it I’d be in my truck, perhaps parked in Kampa next to a billion dollar house, heh heh. Jsem klidny because after about six months during my travels I already decided I was prepared to lose the truck - that it was so fun and enjoyable that all the three years and hard work that I spent putting my dream together has paid off. Of course, I’d rather not lose it, but I feel satisfied enough now. There are countless stories how I handle the authorities and police. I feel I am becoming an expert at it. Sometimes I raise my voice. You know, police are often swindling bastards who are just out to make extra money. f they see you are a lunatic freak, they rather go elsewhere and hassle some good, law abiding and scared citizen like yourself. They feel powerful. With me I think they start thinking about their family. Especially the way I look sometimes, and crawl out of this truck with barefeet. I scare this shit out of them sometimes. Then I quickly switch to nice mode once they do. Diplomacy skills. But it’s my house and if someone wants to take it from me, perhaps over someone’s dead body, so they say. * * * Island Hopping in the Philippines * * *
Published - August 2012
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Yes, Czechs can be real morons with the translation thing. I still think
I’m being grossly underpaid and hope that eventually enough Czechs will
realise what a bunch of asses they are representing them as outside the
country and agree to pay me 500Kc a page or something more reasonable.
But the agency I found now is a good base and starting point (half this
amount), it pays the rent, and at least I’m surviving and starting to
pay some debts. The others I don’t even want to waste my time with. For
example, one agency recently, like many in the past, wont give me work
just because I’m not in Czech. 
