P+h+D Mode
I haven't yet come to terms about being half-way done with my masters and feeling like I haven't been able to accomplish what I wanted to do. That's mostly because the things I want to accomplish now were not the same things I wanted to accomplish when I arrive just 6 months ago. When I came to Australia my goal was to recieve a formal education in translation so that I could be a proper translator. My goals now are a someone muddled version of the original one. Who knew that the field was so multifaceted and interdisciplinary? Cetainly not me or I would have gotten a masters in linguistics.
I also wanted to get a higher degree in something that would allow me to purchase such luxuries for myself such as food and clothing, that my beloved Art degree would not. Unfortunately a degree in linguistics won't buy me luxuries either, unless somehow I can land a really fabulous job as a terminologist and create dictionaries for Webster and Oxford.
Who knows, I may be able to land a job in Latin America working for Sony Television doing their subitling. (sigh)
I also wanted to get a higher degree in something that would allow me to purchase such luxuries for myself such as food and clothing, that my beloved Art degree would not. Unfortunately a degree in linguistics won't buy me luxuries either, unless somehow I can land a really fabulous job as a terminologist and create dictionaries for Webster and Oxford.
Who knows, I may be able to land a job in Latin America working for Sony Television doing their subitling. (sigh)
posted by Dirty Flamingo @ 4:33 pm
1 Comments:
Well here's a thought.. When I bought my car a few years ago the dealer was spanish, he was fluent in both Spanish and English and he worked part time for $70/hour as a translator at a hospital.
There's some good money in translating.. I guess youd sit around in the emergnecy room and wait for some foreigner to come in who can't speak whatever language they speak in whatever country you're in.
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