At work, if you put off a project until the last minute and then you're sick or something else gets in the way, you risk your professional reputation-and you could even get fired.

在工作中，如果拖延一个项目到最后一刻，然后你生病了或被其他事绊住了，你将损害你的职业声誉。——甚至你可能被炒鱿鱼。

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Never get fired–Alright, an individual client may reject your work or even take you off a project once you've started, but you'll still own your business.

多数自由译者的工作依靠服务客户需求，新技术出现的时候也要不断学习，这样才能争取到新的项目，这也算一种激励。

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Can't get fired-alright, an individual client may reject your work or even take you off a project once you've started, but you'll still own your business.

不会被解雇。当然，客户可能拒绝给你项目或者你开始项目的时候终止合作，但你依然是自己的老板。

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Employees targeted by bully bosses stand a 64% chance of losing their jobs, the institute says, because they get fired or the bullying makes them too ill to work.

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