Increase Productivity, Increase Business.
Working for yourself can be a blessing since you are your own boss and can make your own choices.
It can also be a curse because you are your own boss and make your own choices.
How can you make sure you stick to your work and don't get distracted/decide to hang out with friends/start watching TV/keep checking your phone? There is no teacher or boss or even a colleague to stop you, and this can be a very dangerous situation.
At least that is what I found. When I started working for myself I realized I would have to be my own boss, quite literally, in that I would have to check up on myself and force myself not to waste time and get back to work. Yes, even when I didn't feel like it.
This course is the method I have been following, along with some other tips, tricks, and tidbits I've picked up along the way. Using this method I have been able to not only succeed as a Freelance Translator, but set up my own translation agency (Lugano Translations), write my book on Freelance Translation (available on Amazon), create this course (as well as quite a few others), and still have time for my family, reading, etc.
Translator / AI Consultant
Robert has been a translator since childhood. He started translating for extra money while in high school, and continued to do so throughout college and graduate school. These days, his clients include banks, corporations, non-profits, consulates, as well as private individuals, and he has been able to expand and set up his own boutique Translation Agency called Lugano Translations, run entirely with Freelancers. His education and background was in finance and fiscal policy, and his translation agency specializes in financial and legal translations. His expertise is in Entrepreneurship and Freelancing, from both the perspective of the "hirer" as well as the "hiree". Robert also has a passion for languages, both for work and just for pleasure.
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