13 Aug Growing Pains

Posted at 01:00h in Court Interpreting, Ethics, Interpreting, Janis Palma, Past Posts, Professional Development, Professional Practices, Recent Posts, Translation by Observer Editor 11 Comments

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The article below is a pertinent repost from 2018. The question, “how much should I charge?” for a newcomer to the profession can feel daunting, as it can be difficult at first to get an idea as to how much interpreters and translators earn on...

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23 Jul Releasing the fear of competition

Posted at 13:28h in Janis Palma, New Ideas, Personal Growth, Recent Posts by Observer Editor 13 Comments

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Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. – Ryunosuke Satoro Sometimes we may find ourselves wondering: Is that other interpreter or translator in my same language combination my colleague or my competition? Does he want to take my clients away from me?...

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16 Jul Message from the Chair

Posted at 14:21h in Janis Palma, NAJIT Affairs, Recent Posts, The Profession, Uncategorized by Observer Editor 13 Comments

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This message from the NAJIT Chair was originally published in the 2021 summer issue of Proteus, NAJIT’s Quarterly Newsletter. Dear NAJIT Members: For those of you who don’t know me, let me tell you a little bit about myself. I have been a member of...

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21 May When your long-standing assumptions are shattered: What now?

Posted at 13:29h in Court Interpreting, Interpreting, Janis Palma, Odds & Ends, Professional Practices, Recent Posts, The Profession by Observer Editor 10 Comments

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Has it ever happened to you that there is something you have believed all your life, something you have never even considered questioning, and then out of nowhere you see something or hear someone say something that makes you feel like your brain has been...

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14 May What’s your story?

Posted at 02:26h in Gladys Matthews, NAJIT Affairs, Recent Posts, Volunteer by Observer Editor 10 Comments

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As a translator and interpreter, language and words are my passion. I suppose it’s not really a surprise that I find myself drawn to writing. A few years ago, the little voice inside me telling me to write grew more insistent. I had been blogging...

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23 Apr Virtually Impossible? The Opposite is True!

Posted at 12:45h in Interpreting, NAJIT Affairs, NAJIT Conference, Odds & Ends, Personal Growth, Professional Development, Recent Posts by Observer Editor 4 Comments

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If I had been told a year ago that NAJIT’s Conference Committee would be organizing a remote event, I would not have believed it. The virtualization of “virtually” everything around us caught us all by surprise. It is a well-known fact that humans by our...

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16 Apr Embracing our Mother Tongue’s Diversity

Posted at 13:36h in Janis Palma, Odds & Ends, Recent Posts, The Profession by Observer Editor 27 Comments

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I was born Puerto Rican. I was actually born in New York, but that doesn’t make me a New Yorker any more than being born in Hawaii or Japan makes my cousins Hawaiian or Japanese just because their military parents happened to be stationed there...

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29 Mar Continuing Education

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29 Mar Presenter Biographies

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28 Mar Main Conference Sessions

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