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🇺🇸 Urgent translations: time management isn’t just the translator’s responsibility
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Time is money is much more than hours worked
A few weeks ago, I was contacted by a notary office I have worked with many times as a translator. Over the years,...
ISO 9001:🐢 — How a Running Joke Became My Freelance Management System
I seem to have accidentally built an ISO 9001:🐢 for my professional life. Like many things I do, it started as a silly...
When Impostor Syndrome Is More Than Self-Doubt
Being “mildly” neurodivergent — because apparently everyone thinks that Level 1 autism means “mild autism” — is a...
Translating What Cannot Be Ignored: Pro Bono Translation in the Context of an Ongoing Armed Conflict
There are translation projects I can describe in detail. I can discuss their terminology, explain their linguistic...
One Small Home Office, Two People and Four Professions
There is nothing particularly Instagrammable about this photograph. There are books being used to create the right...
Double ProZ.com Certified PRO: English–Portuguese and Spanish–Portuguese
Rita Faleiro is now a ProZ.com Certified PRO translator in two language pairs: English–Portuguese and Spanish–Portuguese. Discover what this independent professional recognition means for clients seeking accurate, natural and culturally appropriate European Portuguese translations.
A Career I Never Planned — and a Life I Would Never Trade
At almost 42, I have already lived through more professional reinventions than I can easily count. My life did not...
Certified Legal Translation Rates: When the Budget Does Not Cover the Service
Certified legal translation rates must reflect more than word count. A real project enquiry offering USD 0.02 per word shows why human expertise, terminology research, document formatting, urgency and professional accountability require a sustainable budget.
