Author: numbat Date: To: tails-project Subject: Re: [Tails-project] Blog post: "Celebrating 10 years of Tails!"
On 25/11/2019 19:35, u wrote: > Hi!
>
> On 25.11.19 18:26, sajolida wrote:
>> u:
>
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>>> - "full-time, most of them part-time or freelance." → I would change
>>> that sentence for reasons known to author by deleting "or freelance".
>>> Freelance has nothing to do with how much you work.
>>
>> I changed "freelance" into "consultant", which is what we already have
>> on /jobs.
>>
>> For me "part-time" means something stable but part-time (eg. 1 day a
>> week), while consultant/freelance means "1 shot" (eg. on 1 contract).
>
> I understand your reasoning better now. I guess a native speaker could
> probably clear this up (not for this blog post because of time issues).
Just a piece of IMHO:
Consultant sounds fancier than freelance. Without being a work
environment specialist, to me, consultants are more about giving advice
and optimisation points whereas freelance workers do the actual work.
In both cases, they come off as people working for the project, while
having other occupations elsewhere.
