Misadventures Ordering Breakfast

Misadventures Ordering Breakfast

Years ago, while working as an internal auditor for a large gold mining company, I was in Val d’Or, Quebec auditing two gold mines that my company had in the area. I was there with a colleague from Chile for two weeks; Pablo is Chilean and speaks both Spanish and...
Setting Rates – How I did it starting out

Setting Rates – How I did it starting out

I remember when I started working full-time in the industry, at the end of the previous century, I had just been laid off from my job as a secretary at a global gold mining company. I told my husband that I was going to work from home as a translator. He said “Okay....