Too Busy Today…
Too busy preparing the documents for tomorrow’s conference.
Clients who complain that conference interpreters charge high fees do not realize that we do have to spend some time before:
- reading their presentation papers (when they do provide them);
- preparing a glossary of words, acronyms, etc.;
- surfing the internet for articles and glossaries on their subject;
- and more generally spending as much time, if not more (especially for a one-day assignment) as we will spend interpreting.
And I’m not even mentioning:
- experience,
- years spent studying, then expanding our knowledge in various fields, etc.
December 28th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
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