{"id":1432,"date":"2026-02-23T17:54:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:08:28","slug":"ill-make-this-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll make this short."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although I had made some legacy writings and presentations available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/forpros.html\">parent website<\/a>, I have now removed them permanently and will be providing no further writings directed at freelance translators. Freelance <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-bright-blue-color\"><em><strong>translating<\/strong><\/em><\/mark> is quickly winding down and already almost <a href=\"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/xloutlook.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"327\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gone for most freelancers<\/a>. There is nothing I can do to help translators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re a freelance translator and thinking of continuing to work for translation agencies, your chances of surviving<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-bright-blue-color\"><em><strong>by translating <\/strong><\/em><\/mark>more than another year or two are extremely slim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you can change careers entirely or at least break away from AI-using agencies \u2014in 2026, this means the agencies that support almost all freelancers\u2014you might survive <em>for a while<\/em>. But most freelancers can\u2019t break away from agencies, because of their circumstances, their preferences and personalities, or their skill sets. For them, it is over\u2014finished, gone, and not coming back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I had made some legacy writings and presentations available on the parent website, I have now removed them permanently and will be providing no further writings directed at freelance translators. Freelance translating is quickly winding down and already almost gone for most freelancers. There is nothing I can do to help translators. If you\u2019re &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=1432\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I\u2019ll make this short.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[22,93,69],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-colleague-professionals","tag-ai","tag-freelance","tag-translator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}