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How much they pay etc.
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 7.
How much they pay etc.
They like my cooking here so far, but the Bulgarian team hasn’t arrived
yet. But I think they will be secondary, in case that they wine for traditional
Bulgarian food, but I think it should be okay. Rog is giving me 7 Euro
an hour, another British dude just arrived yesterday and he will be the
main project guy, and then the Bulgarians will be doing all the grunt
work for 2 Euro an hour. I can stop working any time a translation comes
in, and some has already. I cook every day and get my food for free, whether
I work for him or not, so I’m saving quite a lot and I think I might be
able to put about a thousand Euro a month in the bank working for him,
so I hope to do that for a year or two and come out of it well on my feet.
Yup, still writing my blog, but haven’t had a chance to put it
on the net yet. Got so much other stuff I’m trying to do, but hope to
get all the text with pictures up soonish. Recently I found I’m very high
on google for such searches as "cheap travel Europe" or "cheap
Europe tour guide" and I’m actually getting the occasional request
from people, so the blog stuff is good. Mostly I’ve been just throwing
up my email correspondence in different categories, since I write so much
of that, whereas blogs require careful preparation with pictures.
It’s very lovely up here and the gardening is great. But his
projects are substantially different from yours: he buys some old dying
rubble that the family has been holding on forever but looks like it’s
about to collapse to the ground. Buys it rather cheap and starts fixing
it up himself. His new experiment are these solar panel heaters, below
the house so after the heated water naturally rises to the solar panel,
it then winds its way back to the solar panel, by itself due to gravity,
but also winds its way through the floors of the house and keeps it from
getting too cold. Then he plans to have a septic tank system which pumps
the stuff under the garden, feeding the grass and the vegetables, so quite
a self sustained system and interesting learning. He then rents them out
over the year and finds some local "manager", who can usually
sleep somewhere for free and is cheap. I think it’s just his retirement
plan or something and would like to try that one day myself.
Hope you guys sell the house. You always seem to have bad timing,
and I guess your very fancy houses can be a hard sell, especially because
of the crunch etc. Been reading about that and trying to understand it
better. Rather interesting, but the more I read the more it seems evident
that the big boys at the top are screwing up everyone else. Probably buddies
with the politicians and they all profit in some way. Will keep reading.
Your projects are prestigious but maybe not as practical as Roger’s method.
But I cannot imagine you tolerate these conditions. Almost like camping.
Am documenting pictures of "before and after", and the toilet
here is quite funny (a hole through cement that plops down to the ground
somewhere). Below us is a barn he will convert to a house with a bunch
of rooms. There is a balcony that overlooks the valley, and at the end
of this "balcony", without even a floor, is a hole in the floor
that drops down a storey to the ground below. But we don’t use that one.
Anyway, each room will have its own shower room/toilet once done, so enjoying
the learning and watching the development. Will try to send some pics.
Well, off to start work soon. Things are going generally great
and quite enjoying it. Roger is quite cool and relaxed, so cant imagine
falling out with him. We think much the same way. Adio!
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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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