Becoming a Professional Freelance Translator
I. Qualifications and Requirements (Samuelsson-Brown, 2006)
To work as a professional translator, you need to:
Figure 1. Translation Skills Clusters
II. Unrealistic Expectations of Freelance Linguists (Samuelsson-Brown,
2010)
• The ability to work more than 24 hours a day.
• No desire for holidays or weekends off.
• The ability to drop whatever you are doing at the moment to fi t in a panic job
that just has to be completed by this afternoon.
• The ability to survive without payment for long periods
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I. Qualifications and Requirements (Samuelsson-Brown, 2006)
To work as a professional translator, you need to:
Figure 1. Translation Skills Clusters
II. Unrealistic Expectations of Freelance Linguists (Samuelsson-Brown,
2010)
• The ability to work more than 24 hours a day.
• No desire for holidays or weekends off.
• The ability to drop whatever you are doing at the moment to fi t in a panic job
that just has to be completed by this afternoon.
• The ability to survive without payment for long periods
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