Are you bilingual and wondering how to become a professional interpreter? You may already be helping out friends and family on an informal basis. If you would like to upgrade and make money from your language skills, check out this list of essential skills for professional interpreters! What does a professional interpreter do? Generally, translators […]
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Are you bilingual and wondering how to become a professional translator? If you’re bilingual, artistic, and precise, and would like to make money from your language skills, check out this list of essential skills! Job opportunities for translators and interpreters will increase by 24% between now and 2030. That’s more than double the national average
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“I’d like to be a freelance translator, but I don’t have a degree in translation.” Are you wondering if you have what it takes to be a freelance translator? I always knew I loved languages. I also wanted to help people from different cultures communicate. Even though I had done some informal translations for friends
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I was flooded with worry in the doctor’s office. She was explaining a diagnosis that would upend our lives and usher us into a new, more expensive, normal. Even though at that point, I had been translating for eight years, I was still financially vulnerable. I had a few steady clients, but they paid me
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Are you struggling to find time to upgrade your skills? Does it seem like you’re dealing with constant interruptions or competing demands on your time? You already know that adding new skills or new services means more money. But if you’re trying to run a business and take care of everyone else, you need a
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When you’re a busy mom, it’s hard to find work-life balance. You need to shift and adapt both your schedules and expectations. Several years ago, I was busy trying to balance my graduate school work while preparing to become a new mom. At five months pregnant with twins, I was already huge. I didn’t know
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The hospital waiting room was full. The other parents kept one eye on their littles and another on their phones. But instead of scrolling away the time, I was working on my laptop. That day, I was translating an instruction manual for a major Mexican airline. This was our fourth appointment in three weeks, and
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