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Last Login: 3/24/2010 4:04:25 AM
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Hello everyone!
I am new in the forum.
I would like to set up my own business and work as a freelance translator, but i´m scared. TERRIBLY.
I don´t really know why.. In fact I have a Masters degree in foreign applied languages. I have translated economic documents for 4 years, as school assignments.
But still, I´m scared not to be able to meet the deadlines or not being good enough etc.. It bothers me a lot since I love translation, of all the job opportunities I have had the past 2 years, it´s the field that offers me fulfilment.
Many people start in-house before going independent, how´s the atmosphere in an agency? How are the deadlines there? How was your first day, for those who have taken that path?
I know you all have more serious problems, but has anyone ever faced this sort of problem?
Can someone help me?
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Post #2330
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Last Login: 3/30/2010 4:53:34 AM
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Hi,
I wondered why no one has answered yet. Your qualifications sound great, so please don't be so scared. In my opinion, it's worse to work in an agency and it's better to work at home as a freelancer. As soon as you communicated with your clients and have formed a cooperative team with your clients - even if you never meet them in person - it is easy to keep their deadlines because you don't want to disappoint them. You literally have to "mind your own business", a situation I personally can cope with much better than with a boss who is breathing down my neck. 
So: Go for it!! 
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Post #2336
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Last Login: 3/9/2010 5:29:12 AM
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Thanks Miriam for your reply, me also needs such advices, it looks difficult to start as freelancer because of dozens of fake sites that promise you with gold if you installed their own banner, you need to search for a while to figure out a way to start, or at least you'll someone to put you on te way 
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Post #2349
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Last Login: 3/28/2010 3:20:32 PM
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Only the brave!!
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Post #2372
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Last Login: 3/18/2010 7:16:02 AM
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Rachel, what you wrote is so "exactly" me. Scared to death and in love with translation business. I am not an English native speaker, but I've spent years and years in the business. I've dreamt of translating books to my own language, but that seems quite a mission impossible to me, that closed circle of translators seem to be protected by some wall I would never be able to climb. As someone said, there are so many sites luring you with promises and actually squeezing whatever you can offer for miserable money. I am actually terrified of bidding for the first time, though I have done it previously, on a different site, done quite well, as a matter of fact. It is nice to know that everyone is scared at first. I think that's just human. After all, being scared makes us creative.
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Post #2377
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Last Login: 4/14/2010 3:49:47 PM
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Hi Rachelnd.
I agree with someone in this forum who told you not to be afraid of this new challenge,I mean, becoming a freelance translator.
It's hard of course, as any other job and it's also true that you'll spend too many hours sitting down in front of your computer (almost 10 hours a day). But if you plan your time and activities you'll be able to do a good job. I saw you've got a master degree in languages. It's important here. Just start! Try! And nobody, not even you, will say tomorrow, at least, that you didn't try.
Bye
Nohelí
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Post #2404
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Last Login: 12/20/2010 4:28:54 AM
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Hello everyone,
I can relate to what Rachelnd wrote as I am brand new in this website. I notice you would have almost a year's experience up your sleeve by now. Please let me know how it has gone for you. I have a Bachelor's degree in English-Spanish Translation from the UANL in Monterrey, Mexico. I am a native speaker of Spanish but have lived the last 17 years of my life in Australia and unfortunately, all this time has been spent doing household/motherhood duties and not at all in translating, but my children are more independent now and I need to earn an income. I love languages and enjoy proof reading and spotting spelling mistakes all the time.
I have not bid for one project yet. Can someone tell me if it's very hard to get a job? Do you have to quote really low? And, can you really tell how difficult a project will be by its title? Also, how many words are translated, on average, per hour?
I hope I can hear from someone. Oh, can you tell me what SDLX means? I find there are so many abbreviations that I don't know the meaning of and can't find in the abbreviations website.
Thanks so much,
Anita
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Post #2564
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Last Login: 5/28/2011 5:13:39 PM
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Hola, Anita me dio mucho gusto saber que eres de Monterrey. Yo tambien soy Regimontana. Que interesante!
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