Translation and interpreting by an openly curmudgeon carbon-based professional
The popular self-applied title “founder” is sometimes (often, actually, in places like LinkedIn) just an aspirational buzzword, with nothing actually having been founded, and that can often be discovered without much effort.
If you must “stand out” (another overused LinkedInese expression I think can be retired), can’t you find a way to do it by demonstrating real achievement or skills? No? Well, then found away until you find a way.
These days many freelance translators, post-editors, and anything-they-can-getters have apparently taken to sitting in front of their computers, constantly refreshing numerous click-work sites in hopes of both clicking before someone else and offering a low enough rate to get whatever scraps fall off the click-work table.
Today while scrolling through LinkedIn posts, I was presented with a post from a fellow in Cameroon offering a bot to automate the process, so now you can more efficiently catch those scraps dropped from the click-work table. Brilliant, just brilliant.
Click-work dependency didn’t start recently, and now it appears to be the normal method of getting work for many people even not in the Global South who formerly actually made a living by doing translation.
LinkedIn is filled with people who have hyper-curated personas, and also people who want to take money to coach other people so they can better curate their phony personas.
Authenticity is apparently a thing of the past.