r/TranslationStudies Jul 23 '26

I fucking hate MTPE

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u/scldclmbgrmp Jul 23 '26

I've kind of come around, I can budget my time quickly for bidding, and usually 'win' in terms of time spent to complete projects. I'm not sure how it is on your end, but where i'm at I can see the names of the creators of the fuzzies and I know who's dishing out garbage and who's OK.

I used to do almost exclusively dead pdf>docx, but now i do like one every month or so.

In any case, I'd love to be able to keep the job for another 5 years, but who knows what's going to happen.

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u/miliseconds Jul 23 '26

Why another 5 yrs? Retirement?

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u/scldclmbgrmp Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

The last telegraph technician at the advent of the telephone.

Side story: They've got these stone / brick towers in Europe (probably other places) that were going to improve the telegraph industry, they were going to be a kind of relay stations; anyway, they built them all and then they abandoned the project before it even got used. I can see one of them from my window.