I have been doing it for a while and I had semi regular work from The Translation Gate, but used to be I was part of a team translating half million word documents but now everything is no more than 1000 words. Wonder what changed.
I had my work from Proz.com but that site wants you to pay money to get listed (you can still be listed for free, but your exposure is more limited if you don’t pay).
I tried 104 and have not gotten any jobs from 104. And truthfully 104 is a terrible site for serious jobs, I think they put poor/leftover jobs there. I bet 90% of all jobs are filled long before it makes it to 104.
Don’t a lot of people teach English online? I know my coworkers have their daughter take lessons completely online through TutorABC or something. Seems like you could at least find private lessons with a little effort.
I’m not a translator so not familiar with the best ways at present for finding such jobs (I imagine there are threads on this?). I am an editor, but I never liked the freelance sites all that much either (too much hassle/wasted time bidding on individual jobs) and haven’t needed to use them in years.
Half a million words sounds like a lot though - I imagine the shift to ca. 1000 words is related to the demand for online content/short news articles. Probably hard to avoid that.
Many content I did for The Translation Gate was either short memo released related to COVID, or medical receipts that needed translation for insurance claims, one of them was a series of student handbook that must be translated into Chinese for immigrant families by US school districts, etc.
Before I was doing video game localization, specification documents (which were quite long), and even teachings from a Rinpoche of a Tibetan Buddhist organization (or cult).
I’ve seen thousands of buskers in Taipei, and most of them are really good. You’re not going to make anything banging out bad renditions of Hotel California and Knocking on Heaven’s Door on some street corner.
Rent a scooter. Start delivering Uber Eats/Food Panda. As others have said, demand is about to pop off for deliveries and they are going to need all hands on deck.
Honestly, in this economy if you can’t find a job that’s your problem. Plenty of work in construction to go around.
You can sign up to uber eats with a bicycle. Ubikes are cheap and abundant. You’d still make money and be in the shape of your life while everyone else gets fat from sitting at home.
Yea about Uberats… I tried to sign up and they are not accepting my documents. It’s because I have a misdemeanor conviction on my record and I don’t know if this is something that I can explain to Ubereats and get that taken care of, or I am banned from Ubereats. It goes away in 5 years.
I thought of ubereats on bikes because I could just do some work, make maybe 800nt (which someone tells me takes about 2 hours or so on a scooter).