Since posterous.com is shutting down I transferred my previous blog posts to this new blog and am now looking forward to posting more frequent and more interesting stuff!
The spring semester has begun and with it came quite a few worries. Actually, those worries came a few weeks before the new semester started. When I chose my major to be in Transcultural Communications I did that with the intention to become a book translator after I get my Master Degree. Well, turns out that mostly other authors translate books and the vast majority of translators work as technical translators. What that means? That means I might spend my days translating user manual after user manual for the rest of my working life. Another punch in my face was the fact that most translators are freelancers. So, basically my future would most likely look like this if I continue studying TCC (Transcultural Communications):
- Go to work or work from home
- Translate "Do not swallow; If substance had contact with your eye: wash it out and call your doctor ASAP; ..." over and over and over again
- Go home
- Worry about not getting enough orders for stuff to translate
Sounds pretty awesome huh?! Yeah, didn't think so either. Freelancing might be the right thing to do for some people and might actually fulfill them, but I don't want to constantly have to worry about wether or not I will get enough orders next month to support the family I will hopefully have some day. I want a stable job that I get a salary for each month. And I want it to have to do with languages (preferably English & Spanish). Is that too much to freaking ask?
I am actually contemplating to go into teaching, however, my personality which is rather quiet might be a problem. It might not be the right thing for me to stand in front of a class and instruct them with what to do. On the other hand, I might enjoy being an Elementary School teacher, because I have had similar experiences during a volunteer teacher aid position I had in the past. I enjoyed working with the little kids a whole lot, so maybe I would just be suited to work with littler children but not with high schoolers.
Well, I will have this semester to figure all of this out. Then I will hopefully have decided on something that I will, in the future, call the right choice.
Until then, this is me:
Katie Lynn :)
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