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Rezeki Membuat Pusingan U

Orang tua-tua kata - kalau dah rezeki tak ke mana. In our case, rezeki itu telah membuat satu pusingan U. Alhamdulillah... Walaupun pusingan U tersebut agak besar, sampai juga balik pada kami. It's the translation work for the insurance company. Agak memeningkan pada mulanya. At first, buat semua 10 documents, then kena split sebab terlebih budget - so kena submit two quotations, finally last Thursday we were told to do only one document. It was an evaluation because since the project is worth more that RMX,XXX, they had to get another quotation. We were against this free-lancer who submitted a cheaper pricing. So, both of us were given a document each to translate.

We managed to finish the work right on the deadline - Friday afternoon. The free-lancer didn't deliver, so we finally got the job to do the remaining 8 documents. Deadline was today. We spent the whole weekend doing the work despite having visitors to the house - my sister and also my MIL. Today we submitted all completed work before 5pm. I got a call from our client aka my SIL that the free-lancer still did not deliver, so we were awarded the document he/she was supposed to translate. Alhamdulillah... jauh sungguh document tu pergi, akhirnya balik pada kami. And insyaallah, we'll be getting another set of documents to translate soon due to our good track record.

Syukur pada Allah... the hard work paid off. Like I wrote before, translation work is not easy. We spend hours in front of our laptops - reading, researching the correct terms and words, translating, proof-reading, QC, final review... My MIL woke up from her sleep twice in the night and found us both still up working in the wee hours of the morning. Sempat dia datang kat I dan tanya (dengan mengantuknya) - "selalu ke kerja teruk macam ni?". I told her - only when there are tight deadlines. She nodded, smiled sadly and went back to sleep. Tu lah enterpreneurs kan. We don't work fixed hours and we work like crazy. That's life. It's hard but we love it.

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