{"id":14627,"date":"2022-02-10T13:57:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T12:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/?p=14627"},"modified":"2022-02-10T13:57:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T12:57:09","slug":"101-things-a-translator-needs-to-know-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/es\/101-things-a-translator-needs-to-know-50\/","title":{"rendered":"101 things a translator needs to know \u2013 #50"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Don’t bury your head in the sand <\/p>

You are, naturally, aware of the need to back up your work. And you may already have other kinds of back-up in place. For example, a trusted colleague to stand in for you during vacations, preferably someone who writes in a similar style. Maybe you are already revising each other’s work, to your mutual benefit.<\/p>

But you need to look further. Imagine you are taken ill or stranded away from home, or your office is destroyed by fire. <\/p>

Don’t bury your head in the sand: draw up a Plan B for various scenarios now, including business insurance, precautions before the event and emergency response after it. Discuss the issue with your colleagues; draw up joint plans. How are you going to access each other’s (back-up) files? And how will the 300-page translation you have nearly finished reach the client on time?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

My laptop is entering its twilight years (or rather weeks), meaning I’m just waiting for it to stop working at any time. A new PC is on its way (and there will be a post about that soon!), but until it has arrived and is up and running, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that nothing untoward will happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ever since I lost a whole afternoon’s worth of work in college, I have been a strong proponent of back-ups, and back-ups of back-ups. It has saved me more than once from some pretty dire consequences. I’m talking about lost work, lost communication, looming deadlines, and near heart attacks (hello, blue screen of death!) …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do a back-up of the important data every night, every Friday night, every last working day of the month, complete back-ups of the entire computer at the end of each month, and always on different mediums, some of them mirrored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also have a tablet, which I primarily use for interpreting, but which also serves as a back-up computer if all else fails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to Plan B in terms of having a colleague to take over, I do have a good network set up: colleagues I trust both regarding the quality of their work and their integrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only point the Think Tank makes here that I’m not sure about is giving someone else access to my files. I do have an emergency plan for worst-case scenarios, like ending up in the hospital unconscious, but that is mainly for a person I explicitly trust to take care of informing my clients, writing invoices if any, making sure they get paid, and paying any open bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe if I worked more regularly with one or more colleagues, shared an office or even had a more binding form of collaboration, that would be a natural step. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or maybe I’m just too independent… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is number 50 of the \u201e101 things a translator needs to know<\/a>\u201c compiled by WLF Think Tank. If you haven\u2019t heard of it, go to the website and check it out. I got my copy from Chris Durban herself at a translator\u2019s conference in Berlin a few years ago. It is full of useful, often funny, sometimes familiar, but always sound advice both for beginners and seasoned translators.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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