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Is the translation industry the new High School?

So I could'nt help wondering: Are we freelancers still stuck in High School? So much drama, back-stabbing and deceiving feedback regarding other translators work, it is due to lack of quality or have our egos blown out of propotions?

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November 25, 2008 8:56 AM		Post #162984—in reply to #162895
Liliana Boladz-Nekipelov
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RE: Is the translation industry the new High School?
In my view, the translation industry is not a high school. I would not have survived even for three weeks. As far as some outsourcing, pseudo-translation companies are concerned, this is a different problem. I do not deal with them that much so I do not want to comment on some particular companies. May guess is, some of them might be something more like a kindergarten, but this is only my guess. 

[Edited by Liliana Boladz-Nekipelov on November 25, 2008 9:00 AM]

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November 25, 2008 9:09 AM		Post #162985—in reply to #162984
Jacek K.
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RE: Is the translation industry the new High School?

Originally written by Liliana Boladz-Nekipelov on November 25, 2008 2:56 PM
...not a high school. I would not have survived even for three weeks. 

Certainly not in the movie 'Cry Wolf' I saw on Canal+ last night where "high school seniors playing a game of lies come face-to-face with terror" ... (http://www.phase9.tv/movies/crywolf.shtml)

 

 


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November 25, 2008 10:02 AM		Post #162988—in reply to #162568
Maxi Schwarz-Bastami
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RE: Is the translation industry the new High School?

Maybe it depends "which high school".  I would not want my relationship with colleagues and clients to resemble the fictional world I've seen on television, but then, I don't live in a fictional world.  I and my two sons each attended a different high school, and I'd not be unhappy to have that type of interaction of any of the three institutions and their "inhabitants".

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November 25, 2008 10:13 AM		Post #162990—in reply to #162988
Jacek K.
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RE: Is the translation industry the new High School?
God forbid some of the preppy high schools I know!
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November 25, 2008 1:38 PM		Post #163004—in reply to #162568
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RE: Is the translation industry the new High School?

Never met preppidom.  Real people.

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