2020 almost ends and I am writing this as a look back through the year. 2020 deserves its own essay in my life, written through my point of view without disregarding the hardships that other people may encounter during the year. How was your 2020? Disclaimer: Please note that this essay is my personal account about going through a pandemic as a freelance transcriber. I’m trying extremely hard not to be insensitive of what other people going through during these challenging times. Warning: This is a long damn post The 2020 Pandemic While dealing with the aftermath of the flood,…
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Daily Musings
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Tjandoe radjoet simply means crochet addict. It is written in the style of van Ophuijsen Spelling System which was used as Indonesia’s official spelling in 1901-1947. As with the grammar rules of English to Indonesian translation, tjandoe means addict; radjoet means crochet. If it’s written in Modern Indonesian, it will be candu rajut, which is not sexy at all.
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Transcribing is fun. I loved every minute of it. Sometimes I indeed get crappy audio recordings, but it’s a part of the job that I have to tackle. It’s September now, so it’s been a year since I decided to become a full-time freelancer. All of that nearly came to a halt when I started suffering from muscle spasms and numbing pains on my wrists. There was a non-stop avalanche of transcription work from Spring 2019 to Fall 2019.
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Everybody now knows about Upwork. It was once called oDesk and then merged with Elance until they changed the brand into Upwork. I’m not very well-versed in the history of the making of Upwork, but they have a whole ABOUT US page that you can go to and read. Below is the first month of my Upwork story.