自由职业者如何安排生活
不仅上班族能拥有规律的工作时间，自由职业者同样能把每天的生活安排得井井有条。下面讲述的是一位美食作家的故事。
After brief forays working as a cook in a restaurant kitchen,Melissa Clark decided upon a more sedentary path. She earned an M.F.A. in writing f rom Columbia University and began a freelance food writing career in 1993.
Currently, she writes for such publications as the The New York Times, Food & Wine, Forbes and Travel & Leisure. In addition,Clark has written 21 cookbooks.
梅丽莎·克拉克曾在一家饭店厨房做过一阵子厨师，后来她决定走一条伏案工作的道路。1993 年，她在哥伦比亚大学取得了“文学写作”艺术硕士学位，从此开始成为一名自由职业者，主要从事美食方面的写作工作。
现在，她为许多出版物撰写专栏文章，比如《纽约时报》、《美食与美酒》、《福布斯》以及《旅游和休闲》。此外，克拉克已经撰写并出版了21本烹饪书。
07:00
I get up, put on some sweatpants, make tea and proceed to my office on the second floor of the house. Take a look at the e-mails in my inbox.I make a list of people to call,which I’ll do later in the day. I start organizing what I’m going to do for the day, and I find that I focus best on only one project per day, which means I usually have an “article” day or a“cookbook” day.
我从床上爬起来，套上一条运动裤，泡茶，走到二楼办公室里。我查看了一下收件箱里的邮件，把需要打电话的人名列了个单子，我会在今晚些时候打电话。我开始计划今天要做的工作，我发现每天专心做一项工作精神最集中。这意味着我通常将日子分为“专栏日”或“写书日”。
09:00
I start to organize all of the recipes that need to be tested today. I compile a list of ingredients that need to be shopped for, and hopefully have done any advance preparations so that work will proceed smoothly when my assistant arrives.
我开始整理今天需要检验的所有食谱。我把需要购买的食材列了个单子，并希望能预先完成一些准备工作。这样在我的助手到达后，工作就能进展得比较顺利。
10:00
My assistant arrives, and will do a lot of the hands-on work of the recipe testing, with my guidance and advice. We discuss a game plan for the day, including discussing each recipe and any snags we might see arising during the day. She goes shopping for the ingredients.
我的助手来了，她在我的引导和指点下将会实际动手检验食谱。我们讨论了今天的行动计划，包括每道食谱以及任何今天可能遇到的困难。然后她外出购买食材。
10:30
While my assistant is out shopping, I continue working in my office, maybe going through a rough transcript of an interview with the chef (of the current cookbook project), polishing it into a final version.
在我的助手外出购物时，我继续在办公室里工作，也许会检查一遍采访厨师长（正在进行的这个烹饪书项目的厨师长）的粗略脚本，修改润色，敲定最终版本。
10:00
Research. I have an extensive cookbook library at home where I can find recipes, food history and information. I write a first rough draft for my article.
做些研究工作。我家 里有个图书室，里面有数量庞大的烹饪书籍，我可以从中查找食谱、食品历史和信息。我开始写文章初稿。
11:00
My assistant arrives with the ingredients and begins cooking. I oversee, taste the recipes as each one is finished, make notes and deal with problems as they arise.
我的助手买食材回来了，并开始烹饪食物。我在一旁监督，每道菜做好后品尝，记录，并随时处理突发问题。
12:00
I head into Manhattan for a business lunch. I am frequently networking with magazine and book editors, many of whom I’ve known so long that they are also friends.
我出发前往曼哈顿区吃商务午餐。我经常与一些杂志和图书编辑合作，他们中的很多人我已认识很长时间了，他们同时也是我的朋友。
14:30
To keep my business going,I’m constantly sending out pitches,ideas for future articles. I need to read widely to make sure I’m not duplicating recent articles.
为保证我的事业持续发展，我会不断地宣传一些关于我未来文章的论点。我需要广泛地阅读以确保论点不会与近期其他文章“撞车”。
15:00
I return phone calls from the list I made earlier this morning. My assistant will continue working until 17:00 or so, but I often head into the city around 15:00 to meet with the chef, getting new recipes, asking questions and doing interviews for head note material.
我按照早晨列的`单子回复电话。我的助手会继续工作到下午五点左右，而我经常会在下午三点左右出发到城里与厨师长会面，取得新食谱，问些问题并做做访谈，为前言搜集材料。
16:00
Go back to the rough draft of the article and continue polishing,incorporating the research and information I’ve been gathering over the course of the past few days.
继续润色我的文章草稿。将近几日收集到的一些研究成果和信息写入文章。
17:00
I find an internet cafe where I can hook up my laptop, and transcribe some of the notes I have from that day.
我找到一家网吧，连上我的笔记本电脑，整理出今天获得的要点。
Article day“ 专栏日”
In addition to the one or two cookbooks I work on every year, I usually write five articles a month, three for my New York Times column and two others for various magazines.
除了每年出版一两本烹饪书外，我通常每月写五篇文章，其中三篇发表在我在《纽约时报》上的专栏里，另外两篇发表在其他各种杂志上。
TIPS：
1. foray n . 尝试，从事非本行的短暂尝试活动。
2. sedentary a . （指工作等）坐着干的，案头的。
3. M.F.A.=Master of Fine Arts，指艺术硕士。M.F.A. in writing是指侧重培养写作的艺术硕士。此专业学生通常会研习小说、诗歌和剧本等不同体裁的艺术作品。
4. freelance a . 自由职业（者）的。
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