Tiger Balm Saving Me
I often get headache when I'm under pressure or stressed. Tonight I was trying to translate an article from English to Chinese but I found it quite difficult. The article was from an translation service company who's looking for part-time translators, I applied and they sent me that article as a test. My English is getting better over travels and I've been helping some acquaintances to do translation work. But my translating skill is not that qualified, I'm only good at the fields I'm familiar with. Tonight the article got me and the headache followed. I'm getting headache almost everyday since I got back, usually not a big deal, I just need to put some tiger balm on my temple and the pain will be gone. The whole week I've been looking for jobs-- searching and applying for jobs on the internet, writing to my formal students, asking people around... but last 8 days I only earned 100 kuai and there's no new work coming for next week. The trip to Sri Lanka cost me more than planned and now I owe the bank $409 on my credit card. Before this trip I was doing pretty well with my Chinese tutoring, but now I haven't got any students yet and it seems I'm not that lucky to meet people this time. I know I should be more patient, it's just been one week, but the debt and some other things make me anxious of waiting. I would wake up three in the morning checking my emails, take a look at the cell phone constantly during the day and log in local job hunting websites every few hours... Even though I've got plenty of time updating the blog, editing pictures, studying French, reading books... it's difficult to concentrate on any of them...
5 Comments:
hi, I enjoy reading your blog, I've had similiar working & job hunting experince and we have many dreams in common. I stick to what I am, you will too I'm sure...Cheers!
By Chris, at 10:20 AM
Good rest after long journey is also needed. Enjoy summer:)
By Anonymous, at 6:22 PM
Tutoring and translation work is a bit unreliable Leylop. Some of the freelance translators out there are very good, we use some at work. They are often Phd students from university. Foreign companies like the one I work for want a perfect job for translating documents. The Chinese teaching is probably less stressful and less competetive.
Good to see you deleted a comment, some of your commentors lately are complete idiots.
By the way, bi-lingual office staff can earn a lot of money working for multi-nationals. We pay our bi-lingual Chinese office administrator lady in our Beijing office RMB15,000 per month and her assistant RMB5,000 per month.
By James, at 5:48 PM
interesting...hmmm...the english phrase for this is "living hand to mouth". But it's kind ofnice to be poor, isn't it? doesn't it seem more real, compared to living in an office? Your life is truly
your own.
If i remember rightly from earlier posts, you have an apartment of your own...therefor rent to pay.Wne there's no money coming in, what do you do?
When i lived in mexico i spent a lot of time living with friends there. local people, kind of 'street people", in a nice kind of way. We sold jewelery we made on the streets of Mexico city. They often had no money at all...but i envied them. it never worried them. not at all. They could go out at night, make a good bit of money and then spend it all on a big dinner and a movie or something frivolous. all gone. not one cantavo left for breakfast. And they were always happy. it never worried them at all. They would only woory about me. they were the best of people...and still good friends. But i could never relax and trust life the way they could.
By graham, at 1:11 AM
Hi,
Wish you luck and find students to teach.
Joan
By Anonymous, at 1:06 PM
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