Poll: If you could change your field of expertise magically right now, would you?
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Annalisa Panero
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 06:18
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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Other Sep 29, 2018

I don’t have just one area of expertise as I started out some 40 years ago as a generalist translator and slowly but surely over the years I left some areas I wasn’t comfortable with and gained experience in others, sometimes through self-teaching and area-specific training. I would love knowing more about medicine, but I don’t believe in magic only in hard work and a desire to learn...

Gibril Koroma
Julita Hille
Els Govaerts
neilmac
 
Mario Freitas
Mario Freitas  Identity Verified
Brazil
Local time: 03:18
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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No Sep 30, 2018

I'm happy with my areas of expertise, as I have worked 20 years in-house in the professions, and as a translator as well. After all these years, my areas of expertise include things like "no student papers", "no Chinese or Indian clients", "no clients with less than 4.6 points in the Blue Board", "no jobs in areas I consider boring", "no jobs in areas I don't specialize in", and several other "nos" in addition to the actual areas of expertise, which I would not suppress either.


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I'm happy with my areas of expertise, as I have worked 20 years in-house in the professions, and as a translator as well. After all these years, my areas of expertise include things like "no student papers", "no Chinese or Indian clients", "no clients with less than 4.6 points in the Blue Board", "no jobs in areas I consider boring", "no jobs in areas I don't specialize in", and several other "nos" in addition to the actual areas of expertise, which I would not suppress either.



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neilmac
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 07:18
Spanish to English
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Other Sep 30, 2018

No, I am happy and I don't really have one specific area...

 
Gianluca Marras
Gianluca Marras  Identity Verified
Italy
Local time: 07:18
English to Italian
Other Sep 30, 2018

No I wouldn't change it, but I would add a couple of fields I like...

 
Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 07:18
French to English
No Sep 30, 2018

Sometimes I think I should have gone into legal translation, for the money. But my soul would have shrivelled up doing that. As it is I do stuff that I find interesting, which nurtures my soul, and that's much more important than the money.

 
Annalisa Panero
Annalisa Panero  Identity Verified
Italy
Local time: 07:18
Member (2017)
German to Italian
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I would likes to be a fantasy book translator! Sep 30, 2018

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