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+49 1719430074 Good morning, this is Cosimo Marraffa and Sylwia Biczyk and we
will today go through the 6D process. And, Sylwia Biczyk will give us her
viewpoint on how her time is being until now, how she is going forward. But
before we start, Sylvia, please tell us, who are you, what you are doing, what
you are why are you here. Hello Cosmo and thank you so much for inviting me
over. My name is Sylvia, and I'm an English-to-Polish business translator
located in Warsaw, Poland. I've been a translator for over 14 years. About a
year ago, I started experimenting with creative writing as a way to express
myself and build an authentic presence on social media. This is all related to
my job, because as a translator, I'm very high-quality-oriented, very much
trying to convey my client's message. Sometimes this is limiting when I want to
express myself on social media because on social media I use completely
different writing skills, so I'm not supposed to be high-quality, I'm not
supposed to be super faithful or be very analytical. For content creation, you
need a completely different set of skills and so I had to teach myself new
skills if I wanted to build a successful online presence. And this journey
helped me to create a space for fellow linguists and other freelancers where we
can practice our writing, share our pieces and just brainstorm ideas so that
for all of us, the online presence is a source of joy and pleasure and not a
stress and frustration. Wow, this sounds interesting, thank you, thank you,
thank you for sharing and if we ask you what one challenge that you had in the
past was and how you got to overcome it, what would you imagine here? Being
present on LI was hard, I had a love-hate relationship because on one hand I
knew that it was a platform for professionals where I was supposed to market
myself, where I was supposed to show my expertise, but at the same time I felt
a lot of frustration because I felt I had no ideas. I felt that translation is
not a sexy subject and so there was a lot of frustration in me because I just
couldn't express myself freely because I had high expectations and just felt
potential clients will judge me based on what I write. So there was a lot of
self-doubt and frustration and one day I just had enough I told myself that
something needed to change and I had a vision in front of my eyes of what the
situation would be like, what the ideal situation would be. I would like, in
six months, my clients to find me on LinkedIn; they would love my posts, they
would love to work with me and everybody would be very happy to find each other
on LinkedIn. And I thought to do that I needed to work on my writing skills. So
I found a quick writing course which I took and I liked it so much that after I
completed it, I said to myself that I would try to write just for myself for 10
minutes every day. And to see where it goes. So, I did and at first, they were
just little pieces that I wrote for 10 minutes, nothing special. I’d take a
photo or I write about the conversation that I overheard. Over time, it got
easier to write and it gave me a lot of pleasure. It was fun to write something
creative and to come up with ideas. Over 3 months, I noticed that not only did
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