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Reseñaspay them for their translations. Since they also have to compete with free machine translation, the threshold for loweringthe cost is pretty low in the case of freelance translators. Needless to say, this does not help things much either.Translators who are obsessed with the thought that they need to lower their rates sometime ask for advice on blogs ofother translators, but they believe that other translators are actively conspiring against them if they are advised to stick totheir guns and demand a rate that actually enables economical survival.5. The I-Need-To-Find-A-Safe-Job SyndromeDuring the last stage of TD, some translators, usually the younger ones, create new resumés and start looking foranother job. For most translators, this is an impossibility because, let’s face it, most translators are able to do only onething, namely translate, and some of them not very well. But there are a few among them who do have some othermarketable skills, and if they can in fact find another job in this economy, any job at all, they can sometime snap out oftheir dementia once they realize that it’s a big world out there, baby, and you can try doing other things.But most of them have no other discernible marketable skills, and thus they have no choice but to keep doing what theyhave been doing for the last decade, or two, or three, or more.Unfortunately, there is really no help for these poor people. There are drugs that one can take to control TD, but thisonly means that the disease is temporarily suppressed, and that it is only waiting to rear its ugly head again when the effectsof the anti-TD medications have worn off.148 Panace@. Vol. XIII, n. o 35. Primer semestre, 2012