more projects and more troubles....

Textklick wrote:

Why is it that so many of these threads mysteriously drift off course and become Trados moans?

I'm baffled

Vito Smolej wrote:

Note Trados can turn into a hard-to-kick addiction (*) - I suspect T in ATF stands for it.

Regards

Vito

EDIT: * - and they keep changing the active substance (version 6.5, 7.1, 7.5 and now the latest), probably to evade legislation...

[Edited at 2008-01-27 08:32]

Viktoria Gimbe wrote:



Makes me think I am probably not a member of the secret society who uses the code language used in this thread. I am amazed at the number of things I don't understand here, while others seem to understand very well...

Now, Brandis, the best thing you can do is basically what Amy says. However, I somehow get the feeling that your clients ask you to work again on things you have already finished. It seems they either twist your arm into helping them more, at no cost maybe, and you miss out on stuff because of this - or you are simply taking on too much work and you don't have the kind of capacities you think you have.

Make sure that when it says "deadline this Monday" on the calendar, that you really do send off everything to the client and invoice them while you're at it (usually, an invoice makes the end of work official - it means you have done everything you agreed to do and you are done with the project). Make sure EVERYTHING you had to do is done, and well done, so your client doesn't need to contact you again until they have new work for you. You have to learn the meaning of the word "finished", and use that word, and give yourself plenty of occasions to use it.

All the best!

Viktoria Gimbe wrote:



Makes me think I am probably not a member of the secret society who uses the code language used in this thread. I am amazed at the number of things I don't understand here, while others seem to understand very well...

Now, Brandis, the best thing you can do is basically what Amy says. However, I somehow get the feeling that your clients ask you to work again on things you have already finished. It seems they either twist your arm into helping them more, at no cost maybe, and you miss out on stuff because of this - or you are simply taking on too much work and you don't have the kind of capacities you think you have.

Make sure that when it says "deadline this Monday" on the calendar, that you really do send off everything to the client and invoice them while you're at it (usually, an invoice makes the end of work official - it means you have done everything you agreed to do and you are done with the project). Make sure EVERYTHING you had to do is done, and well done, so your client doesn't need to contact you again until they have new work for you. You have to learn the meaning of the word "finished", and use that word, and give yourself plenty of occasions to use it.

All the best!

Gillian Scheibelein wrote:

Looks like you'll have plenty of work in the future if Trados continues to launch a new version every year. Judging by the number of Trados posts by Proz members, such a book will be a big hit. How much do you reckon you'll charge for it?

[Edited at 2008-01-26 15:55]

Vito Smolej wrote:

Note Trados can turn into a hard-to-kick addiction (*) - I suspect T in ATF stands for it.

Regards

Vito

EDIT: * - and they keep changing the active substance (version 6.5, 7.1, 7.5 and now the latest), probably to evade legislation...

[Edited at 2008-01-27 08:32]

Gillian Scheibelein wrote:

Hi Brandis,
How are you going to distribute your book? Do you have a publisher lined up or are you going to print, bind and mail copies yourself? I presume even password-protected PDFs are too dodgy. Which languages is it going to be published in?

BTW, I've been wondering, what is "for a shore"?


Cheers,
Jill



[Edited at 2008-01-26 13:43]

Lawyer-Linguist wrote:

There is so much Trados support out there already, what makes this book so special?

Brandis wrote:
Trados for hungry minds. Brandis