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Translator charges, programming etc.
Karel’s letters written during travellingLetters written when working while travelling, part 6. Translator charges, programming etc. My Translator Charges Fees Rates page is almost at the top of google in those such keywords and new applying translators have occasionally asked me what to charge, so this was just another goofball idea to add dynamic elements to my various pages in hopes that it will increase traffic and push me higher up in google etc. Another dynamic element is the goofball surveys at the bottom of my http://kenax.net/travel/ page. Maybe you’d get a kick out of submitting your opinion. But after the translator charges is done I’ll get working on the auto translation project thing. Will require analysing the previous guy’s work and will certainly be a challenge. Everything is already set up but I just need to create a special
administrator class with limited rights. Was thinking recently that this
would be a cool way to make cash - I like to call it Mr. Facebook and
Mr. Google approach. Making different dynamic web projects and try to
monetise them. Definitely creative and a better use of my noodle, and
the coolest is I don’t really have any customers and don’t have to suck
any butt! I sanded it down before I left cause I wanted to paint it, but it was too windy and I eventually gave up on that project, so now it is faded blue and rust in a bunch of spots, and looks like a disaster just waiting for a cop to pull it over. Hope to get it painted in Czech Republic and got all sorts of plans to fix the belly and make it much nicer, and to convert it to French Fry Fuel like I think I said. Then I guess the cops would be happy enough. Hope I keep making cash! This month seems on schedule (about 1200 Euro). Actually made a hundred bucks with my first SEO customer! I’m just his consultant and said I’d want at least 500 bucks for all my SEO tricks, so had to give him about one fifth due to his budget, but he was quite happy and hope in time to squeeze out of him the rest. Looks like Misha will be in town as well, so now I have both her and Stef wanting to be my hot dates. Your mom was saying it was going to be expensive for you. I know its rather cheesey of me but I thought I could offer to at least pay back one of the debts, which I think is 6,500Kc for when you went down to Croatia. Assuming the jobs keep coming in and there is no disaster I think I should be able to afford this. I’ve been offering everyone, like I do with my translators, 1.5% interest per month, which would make it... hmm, maybe we could wait for the interest till later. Not sure if I’ll have that much. Beginning of next month I’ll finally be able to make my first
charity investment. Decided I was going to set aside 10% of profits (strictly
from translation work and not including any other expenses) from the start
of this year and already owe quite a bit, but it will feel nice to send
200 Euro to some shelter for children in Nairobi. A friend of a friend
manages it and 100% of any money goes to the children. She said that,
because of the "crunch", less people have been paying and that
my donation came just in time and will allow the kids to stay on 3 meals
a day instead of dropping to two, like she planned. She even indicated
something about they’d love to see me, which put a little bug in my head
and I’ve even started fantasising about driving down to Alexandria Egypt
(once I convert to FFF) and shipping the beast from there. That would
certainly be an adventure. * * * Island Hopping in the Philippines * * *
Published - August 2012
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Concerning the programming thing, yah, half a cent for anything that goes
through the system, then half a cent if they want it vetted as well (the
second half would require hiring someone, or I could do it myself until
the workload gets enough). My markup has been 3 cents all these years
so if enough turnover goes through it it will hopefully be interesting.
My latest project is a survey among translators what they charge.
