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How many pages to translate a day?
Thread poster: Tariq Shaar
Tom in London
Tom in London
United Kingdom
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Member (2008)
Italian to English
EVEry. Jul 21, 2017

TariqSh wrote:

.... If in any given day I had to finish over 3000 or 5000 words, then I may be able to do that, but not everyday



..or indeed, every day.


 
MARLENE LE DUC (X)
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France
Local time: 10:23
English to French
Of, course not ! Jul 21, 2017

They are squizzing the lemon! ... (as we say in France)

You'll have to do something about it, you're risking a burn-out or even worse.
At some moment of my life, I was working really hard, no holydays, 12 hours per days, etc . Then I started to have a painful shoulder, as the days were passing the pain get down the arm, in fact it wasn't that painful; it was more like if my arm was becoming an heavy piece of marshmallow. Two days later, it was my leg !
Hospital, emergen
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They are squizzing the lemon! ... (as we say in France)

You'll have to do something about it, you're risking a burn-out or even worse.
At some moment of my life, I was working really hard, no holydays, 12 hours per days, etc . Then I started to have a painful shoulder, as the days were passing the pain get down the arm, in fact it wasn't that painful; it was more like if my arm was becoming an heavy piece of marshmallow. Two days later, it was my leg !
Hospital, emergency, brain surgery, aneurism, wheel-chair, no insurance for disabilities, no incomes, back to translations a week after !

Please take a break, You can't do that any longer.
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