By Observer Editor March 29, 2022
Can we please standardize the name we use to refer to our profession and those who practice it? There are so many variations on a theme: legal interpreting, community interpreting, court interpreting, public-service interpreting, judicial interpreting, and of course, the one name adopted by our... The post One profession, one name appeared first on NAJIT.
By Observer Editor March 21, 2022
This post is on the topic of monotasking. That’s right, you read it correctly. Monotasking. What’s that, you ask? Well, it’s the opposite of multitasking. In other words, instead of doing a ton of things at once, you do one. Thing. At. A. Time. I... The post On the Topic of Monotasking appeared first on NAJIT.
By Observer Editor March 14, 2022
This is the war everyone hoped would never happen. And yet it has happened. Most of us had never paid attention to Ukraine, except perhaps when it came up during the testimony before Congress in 2019 regarding Marie Yovanovitch, a former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine.... The post Things We’re Not Talking About appeared first on NAJIT.
By Observer Editor March 8, 2022
I had my first business at the age of twenty. It was a furniture store a block away from the main plaza in downtown Celaya, Mexico. Business has been in my blood since I was born. My father was an entrepreneur and we, the sisters,... The post Business As Usual appeared first on NAJIT.