Poll: Are you planning a career change, out of translation? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Are you planning a career change, out of translation?".
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I’m too old to change and anyway this is the best job I ever had without comparison. To become a full-time translator was my big career change some 30 years ago and I have never looked back since. Would I change again? No, definitely not, thank you! I must add though that the road to get where I am now has been long and sometimes quite bumpy...
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Happy in this job, doing what I like. No reason to change.
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EvaVer (X) 
Local time: 16:58
Czech to French
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Just can't decide between traffic warden and astronaut.
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EvaVer wrote:
Retirement
Apart from that, I was probably more or less unemployable when my in-house employer had to let me go. I did not fit in anywhere else when I started with them five years earlier, but they turned me from a hopeless amateur into a professional, and set me up for the rest of my working life.
I'm not planning on stopping entirely - old translators don't die, they just move into the Tower of Babel.  However, there is a life beyond translating, and pensioners have other duties too!
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I'm happy. It's too late anyway. Not planning on retiring until I go blind or something like that.
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Marc Cordes
Poland
Local time: 16:58
English to German
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Best job I ever had! Not EVER going back to corporate life x-D
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Toni Faisal
Indonesia
Local time: 21:58
English to Indonesian
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| Definitely nope! | Jul 5, 2017 |
This job really helps me a lot. Not tied up by any company, I can work any where, good money, I can make new income by new job based the fund from translation, I can buy cool things from eBay and Amazon. I am the only one freelance translator in my town.
But, I could become full time translator for company in order to have more experience or working in embassy. I am kind a workaholic but I also freelancing and of course travelling.
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| No and I will not retire | Jul 5, 2017 |
I have decided not to retire (until my brain will allow me to), I could work less hours for less clients but no retirement
[Edited at 2017-07-05 18:46 GMT]
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Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 11:58
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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| Quite the other way around | Jul 5, 2017 |
I did the exact opposite. I had a different career for 20 years, and considered translation as an extra during that time. In 2013, I quit the other career and dedicated myself to translation full time. My lfe improved in all aspects, and I regretted not doing it a lot earlier.
Changing careers now doesn't even appear in the furthest point of my horizon.
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Paul Adie (X)
Germany
Spanish to English
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I'm a contemporary jeweller/object maker and hope to make this my main career in life.
www.pauladie.com
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Odile Breuvart
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:58
Member
English to French
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| Lack of support | Jul 6, 2017 |
Being a freelance translator does not make money and can be quite isolating. I have no scheme to support me if I get ill and feel very vulnerable as a result.
My next move is to look after myself as I did not have a personal life, didn't get out and socialise for a long time due to the ruthlessness of this job when I compare myself to employees who have their health, work condition, pension, holiday pay... looked after for them.
I aim to go part time as I do love my job intrinsically... See more Being a freelance translator does not make money and can be quite isolating. I have no scheme to support me if I get ill and feel very vulnerable as a result.
My next move is to look after myself as I did not have a personal life, didn't get out and socialise for a long time due to the ruthlessness of this job when I compare myself to employees who have their health, work condition, pension, holiday pay... looked after for them.
I aim to go part time as I do love my job intrinsically speaking, but socially and as far as health and need to get myself some sort of pension is concerned, I will find myself another part time more secure job on the side, maybe starting with some training in a social care capacity... ▲ Collapse
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