What have we learned during the summer?
After having a long summer break, with heat and humidity making its peak, it feels refreshing to think of turning of the season. Come September and the new working season starts.
Although summer is over, it has taught us a few things to consider. Let us recap our learnings during this summer break:
1- That You Should Take a Break
First and foremost, taking time off from work to go on a holiday or just to spend time away from work will help you reset your mind, see things from a different perspective and hopefully gain new insights. You will come back with a refreshed mind and feel more productive and energised on your return.
This has been the most important benefit of the summer season, to come back refreshed to the upcoming months which are notoriously busy for conference interpreters.
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2- Find an interest
Having interests other than your work will help you enrich your world as an individual. This will again help you see things from different perspectives, find new skills, meet other people or just unwind and have fun. You might find that you may have more than one calling and you can pursue those which will increase your general satisfaction and uplift you.
Having more time to ourselves, we have taken up a hobby that we have long forgotten.
3- Talk to Others
Speak to other people in your industry to understand how they get on, what are other ways of working, what are other practices out there which you may find useful, how are other people dealing with stress during peak times or managing their work during low activity times, etc. It is always good to know about the best practices in your industry and gain insight from others.
You may want to collaborate with them or just learn from them.
These are some of the ideas that came out during summer time, after taking a few holidays and coming back refreshed each time.
We hope you had a great summer and feeling ready for the new season as we do!
