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Hello, welcome!
Alright, today I'm going to be talking about VRS.
You might remember kind of recently,
maybe a couple months ago. I'd have to look and see when,
I made a video called
"Why I Almost Quit Interpreting".
That's discussing VRS, which I'll link up here.
In that one I mentioned I almost quit interpreting cause I didn't like VRS work.
I ended up doing too much VRS work
which meant I thought I hated interpreting as a profession
but then I realized, no, it was just VRS work I didn't like.
So I just quit VRS
and I've worked in other jobs and have been fine since then.
Now, recently, I've gone back to doing VRS work.
I started about 2 months ago, so not too long.
I wanted to explain why I'm doing VRS work again.
How I'm incorporating that into my life
without burning out with interpreting in general.
Honestly the reason I decided to go back to VRS work
is due to the hours I wanted to work.
I want to work evenings and weekends. I don't want to work during the day.
Which makes it tough to find a lot of good freelance work.
I can work evening classes at the university,
but it's not enough hours
and I like to work really, really late
like 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 at night.
It's tough to get that type of night work.
Plus with freelance your'e limited to like a 3 hour class
and then you have to have an hour break and that type of thing.
So for me it was a different type of night and weekend work.
During that transition it was tough to get enough hours.
Plus, a lot of freelance work in the area depends on the university.
So during break time, winter break, Christmas break, that type of thing,
your hours are cut drastically and there's not much freelance work available.
Where, with VRS, it's pretty easy to always get hours.
You can depend on that.
In general you can get a lot more hours and it pays well.
I'd say my VRS pay is almost on par with what I get paid for freelance.
There's a little bit of a difference.
Like I said, I decided to go back to VRS work
and the one thing I would say is
yes, I still don't like VRS work like before.
It's not my preferred work,
but sometimes.. you know, I mean...
I actually prefer to do freelance and that type of thing.
But because I need that type of work right now,
I just need to make sure I have a balance.
Sometimes I'm gonna depend a little more on VRS
during specific times. But then I'm gonna make sure
that I'm involved in the freelance community as well and have a balance.
Before when I burned out, I was only doing VRS work and that's it.
So it was something I didn't enjoy as much.
That was the only exposure to interpreting I had in the past.
That was the only thing I was doing, was interpreting VRS.
So then interpreting as a profession was equated with VRS
and I didn't want to do that.
Now I have a better balance.
So I do freelance community work and VRS work.
That balance means that
I might feel so-so with VRS and like freelance a little bit better,
and when I mix them I get a balance of things that I can handle.
Am I going to work VRS forever? I don't know.
Hopefully it will be a good addition
and I can continue doing the work.
But I just wanted to say, sometimes...
Depending on what's going on in your life,
you might have to work in something that...
don't like as much.
Not that you... maybe you hate education,
or you don't like something, or it's so-so.
But if that's what's available in your area
and you need the money in all honesty,
do what you have to do.
So just wanted to say what's going on with me.
I'm back to doing VRS work.
Sometimes you're gonna have to do that type of job.
Just make sure you have a balance if you can.
If it's really the only option that you have,
just make sure you realize interpreting as a profession is not only that one job.
There's always diversity.
Sorry I was kind of all over the place, but again
I just kind of wanted to....
I guess say how important is to have balance
in your interpreting life.
Hopefully that makes sense.
If you have any other questions related to this topic leave me a comment down below
and I will answer as much as I can.
Yeah, that's about it.
I'm curious if any of you guys work in a field that
maybe you quit, you didn't like, went back out of necessity?
Let me know, how do you keep a balance?
Maybe some ideas of what you do.
Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you in the next video. Bye!