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What languages do you know that you translate from?
French, and I've just started Italian. Thing is, (and don't tell anyone) the computer does about 85% of it these days, and for the most part a translater isn't translating, they're re-writing. I was once asked to translate a Dutch text, and I speak no Dutch at all, but could still do a reasonable job, with a machine translation, a dictionary and then two re-writes to get it to sound like English.

One day I'll be out of a job though, so...

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I run a medium sized office cleaning company in London... and it is doing pretty well really.
Can I have a job? I fancy a couple of months in London as I've not lived in the Uk for eleven years now. Part-time would do, and I'm cheap.
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French, and I've just started Italian. Thing is, (and don't tell anyone) the computer does about 85% of it these days, and for the most part a translater isn't translating, they're re-writing. I was once asked to translate a Dutch text, and I speak no Dutch at all, but could still do a reasonable job, with a machine translation, a dictionary and then two re-writes to get it to sound like English.

One day I'll be out of a job though, so...



Can I have a job? I fancy a couple of months in London as I've not lived in the Uk for eleven years now. Part-time would do, and I'm cheap.
I'll do you a swap! I also translate French into English, and the funniest one US English into UK English, in Edinburgh, but quite fancy being back in France for a while! Can't afford all the fancy software though so I do it oldstyle with dictionaries.

But anyway that's only a sideline, main business is also my own, freelance lighting tech, until all the banks decided having events didn't look too good. Oh and I've done some travel writing, and about to try and sell some photos.

Best thing about being freelance is you don't run a business that needs you to be there every day in order to get punters, if something takes your fancy you get to do it, only criteria is being able to pay the bills!!! (downside is when everyone entertainment's budgets get cut and no-one wants to give me any money ).

Wouldn't have it any other way though!! Full time jobs do my nut
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I do have to be there everyday,but at least I get to pick when and how long my holidays are!!!
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Bro, if you want to start your own business, you cant go ahead with a thought like that, if you think you will fail, you shouldn't even be starting. You get out of a business what you put in, simple as that.
positivity is 100% necessary. If you are thinking about internet cafes etc, just remember that everyone likes a smile, and treat customers as you would like to be treated yourself.
I owned and ran my own bar in london for 12 years, and it was my whole life, but a good one!
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I hate to tell you this Dan,but I own two bars(one right now,I sold the other to fund my next project) a microbrewery and a mining geophysics business.
I will with any luck be opening a biker bar in Medellin Colombia.
But I get where you,re coming from!
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I hate to tell you this Dan,but I own two bars(one right now,I sold the other to fund my next project) a microbrewery and a mining geophysics business.
I will with any luck be opening a biker bar in Medellin Colombia.
But I get where you,re coming from!
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I own and run a management consultancy in London.

We are doing OK, in fact at the moment we are flat out, but we do a lot of process change, merger type work and there is a lot of that going on at the moment. It's a case of make hay whilst we can, unfortunetly when things start to go really wrong our market starts to expand.

We (directors) were hoping to sell out in the next two years and retire, I wanted it done before I was 40. We did have some interest but were waiting on figures but I suspect with things getting tights it may have to wait a few years longer now, which is a pity!
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I'll do you a swap! I also translate French into English, and the funniest one US English into UK English, in Edinburgh, but quite fancy being back in France for a while! Can't afford all the fancy software though so I do it oldstyle with dictionaries.
Yeah I've done US to UK English too, for a company that had paid someone else to do French to US English and then realised it wanted UK English to sell to the Indian market (apparently Brits didn't count though).

Dropped you a PM - but I don't know with six posts if you can get it, so let me know on here if you didn't and I'll mail or something. Might have a bit of extra work for you every now and then if you'd like it.

And sorry for hijacking the thread slightly everyone, but you know, business is business.
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I've just started up my own business through my part-time hobbies of dog training and handling.

Its all very early days (if anyone is a website designer and would like to do a 'heres one I made earlier' I'd really like to talk to you!), but am in negotiations with a larger dog walking/sitting company to combine efforts through a referral system.

Thankfully everyone needs a dog trainer it seems, regardless of economic climate!
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I run my own business as a Diamond Drilling Contractor, it is NOT as glamorous as the name suggests, in fact it is downright dirty and physical but it does the trick of paying the bills.

Oh, and it does not involve drilling for diamonds, it is drilling with diamonds as the cutting media.
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I have my own building company here in France. I started about 16 years ago and it used to be interesting but nowadays is just a means of paying the bills. I find it quite stressfull at times.
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I have my own building company here in France. I started about 16 years ago and it used to be interesting but nowadays is just a means of paying the bills. I find it quite stressfull at times.
I know exactly how you feel!!!
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