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Working as a translator and travelling
By Karel Kosman,
Freelance Translator,
Prague, Czech Republic
travel at kenax cz
www.islandhoppinginthephilippines.com
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Karel’s letters written during travelling
Letters written when working while travelling, part 5.
Working as a translator and travelling
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.
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.
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Travel Tour Guide in Europe
Island Hopping in the Philippines
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Karel’s letters written
during travelling |
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46. The ONLY Thai girl I am attracted to |
45. Miscellaneous letters |
44. I have always felt I will be a writer one day... |
43. About freelancing and travelling |
42. Thai girls are like demon possessed little witches |
41. Living on a mystical island of Koh Phangan in Thailand |
40. From Malaysia to Thailand |
39. From Laos back to Thailand |
38. How to publish a book |
37. Back in Thailand |
36. Feeling increasingly uncomfortable here on the island in Malaysia |
35. My belongings |
34. Staying in Malaysia |
33. About running a blog |
32. A short travel update |
31. Planning to publish a book about my travels |
30. In Thailand, God’s hand |
29. Getting ready to go to Asia. In the airport |
28. Escaping from Galia’s place |
27. About Bulgarians, earnings, plans |
26. Starting to earn more after approaching thousands of translation agencies |
25. About writing and publishing content online |
24. How to find really cheap plane tickets |
23. The girlfriend: would like to find THE ONE |
22. Still staying in Bulgaria but planning to go to Thailand |
21. Travel
outline |
20. About
translation industry |
19. About
female friends |
18. About
computer, online marketing, translation, CAT tool |
17. About
blabber - waste of time. About wanting to be a writer. |
16. About
God |
15. More
about software sales |
14. More
travel updates |
13. Staying
at a pension |
12. About
borders etc. |
11. Software
sales |
10. Travel
update |
09. Translation
job industry |
08. Partying
is a waste of time |
07. How
much they pay etc. |
06. Translator
charges, programming etc. |
05. Working
as a translator and travelling |
04. Travel
life |
03. Why
NOT to cheat Google... |
02. About
opportunities for working as a freelancer |
01. About
advantages of working as a freelancer |
Working While Travelling |
26. Gone
treeplanting (September 8, 2008) |
25. First
friends visiting me to Cyprus (February 29, 2008) |
24. Staying
in Cyprus (December 09, 2007) |
23. Escaping
the Cyprus heat (February 8, 2007) |
22. Escape
from boredom (February 8, 2007) |
21. Barelling
to Bodrum (November 20, 2006) |
20. Staying
in Stoliv, Montenegro (October 2, 2006) |
19. Arriving
to Montenegro (August 22, 2006) |
18. Traveling
through Croatia (August 9, 2006) |
17. The
trip begins - off to Croatia! (2006) |
16. How
to Live in a Caravan |
15. How
to Connect to Internet While Traveling |
14. How
to construct a caravan - Beautification |
13. How
to use solar panels to electrify your caravan |
12. How
to construct a caravan |
11. Designing
the caravan |
10. Back
to Czech - buying a travel van (April 10, 2004) |
9. Mexico
Trip - Off to Yosemite and Beyond (December, 2003) |
8. Mexico
Trip - Getting a Driver’s License (December, 2003) |
7. How
to Buy a Used Car (December, 2003) |
6. Mexico
Trip (December 14, 2003) |
5. Traveling
through Bulgaria (July 20 - Aug. 4, 2002) |
4. Czech
Republic: My Reflections |
3. My
life in Prague |
2. My
flat in Prague |
1. Dream
of working while travelling |
Published - August 2012
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