A few weeks from now will be my first anniversary at the company where I am currently employed. I work as an in-house interpreter-translator.

Deep down, I enjoy it. But I'd be lying if I said that it isn't extremely smurfing hard somedays.

I prefer document translation at my desk to simultaneous interpretation in highly intense meetings. But, they pay me to go both ways (ha)

Which is another thing. I think I am paid fairly nice, particularly for being just some little trout fresh out of college with no kids to take care of.

Some days I'm just really pissed off. Like when people use Google Translate for whatever stupid reason they have. Like the other day, some guy sent me a 12 page document that he had Google translated from Japanese to English, asking me to proofread. It was so painful that it literally gave me a headache, and it was much easier to just delete it all and translate it from scratch. Y U DO DIS?!??

So yeah

LET'S TALK ABOUT JOBS. Also, let's ask about jobs.