The Translator Diaries features a weekly interview with tweeting translators, from some of Twitter's most established linguistic professionals to recent industry débutants.
They will be telling us, in specific terms:
- What made them want to translate
- How they broke into the industry
- How they acquired the experience and qualifications required to be a successful translator
- How they found making the transition from university or from another job to translation
- How they found the initial start-up phase
The interviews will also answer questions such as how much experience do you need to go freelance, how necessary is a postgraduate degree, what are the typical problems that face translators starting out, and how can they be overcome.
With the routes into the industry being rather diffuse, we will look at concrete examples of how translators have established themselves in the industry and built a successful career.
The series starts next Saturday with Megan Onions' story of starting up Speech Marks Translation.
I'm looking forward to it and I hope you are too!
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