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Brave New Words: Saying No Now -- and Forever?

This is an excellent article for us, translators. It teaches how to say "no" to a client and not lose him/her. As a freelancer, sometimes I have a lot of projects (usually I'm doing fine as soon as there are no more than 3 of them going on simultaneously), and sometimes there are scarcely any or no projects at all! So, like many other translators I prefer to take more assignments from my clients when they have them. I pay special attention to quality of my work no matter how many translation assignments I am doing at once, but I tend to get really stressed and overworked. So saying "no" to a project without saying "no" to a client for ever is something I've been learning for over 3 years now. I planned to touch upon this subject in one of my next articles, but I found this excellent blog entry that sums up everything! So enjoy! Hope it is useful to you, too!
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  1. AnonymousJun 13, 2010, 1:35:00 AM

    When you are overloaded with work, you can always share the load with another translator you trust to do a good job.

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  2. Olga ArakelyanJun 13, 2010, 8:45:00 AM

    Yeah, I occasionally do that. But there can be other reasons for declining a job offer: the rates are too low, the project in not in my specialty field etc.

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