How I did it: I am Spanish and I started to learn English when I was 7 at school. I really enjoyed the English classes. Then, a few years later I started with French. I had a gift for languages and when I was a teen I used to listen to English music and translate the lyrics. I started to learn English on my own!

I always had very clear that when I grew older, I wanted to work with languages, but studying a philology seemed too boring to me... So I decided to study Translation and Interpreting at the university and four years later I got my degree.

But you're not a translator only because you have a degree. After sending out about 150 CVs I got my first client and that's how it all started...

Now, three years later, I've worked for several important translation companies in Spain both as an in-house and freelance translator.

Lessons & tips: A degree in translation always helps.
Be patient and be willing to do a lot of tests (for free, of course).

Jan 23, 2009, 07:57AM PST | 1 comment | 1 cheer