Comments on: Year-one Chronicle: My First Twelve Months as a Professional Translator /starting-your-career/year-one-chronicle-first-twelve-months-as-professional-translator/ The Voice of Interpreters and Translators Fri, 03 Jun 2022 20:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Renata Fernandes /starting-your-career/year-one-chronicle-first-twelve-months-as-professional-translator/#comment-547 Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:54:47 +0000 http://atasavvynewcomer.org/?p=1624#comment-547 In reply to Paul Froese.

The Nordeste is beautiful. You should visit it, no doubt about it.

Specializations: wow, life sciences is pretty broad. I’ll go and do some agency marketing as well.

Thanks for the tips!

]]> By: Paul Froese /starting-your-career/year-one-chronicle-first-twelve-months-as-professional-translator/#comment-546 Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:39:26 +0000 http://atasavvynewcomer.org/?p=1624#comment-546 For a year-two success story, listen to Tess Whitty’s recent podcast with Meghan McCallum. More great tips there: .

]]> By: Paul Froese /starting-your-career/year-one-chronicle-first-twelve-months-as-professional-translator/#comment-545 Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:36:16 +0000 http://atasavvynewcomer.org/?p=1624#comment-545 In reply to Renata Fernandes.

Hi Renata, great to meet you! Thanks for reading and commenting.

Specializations: I agree that having a specialization helps focus our marketing and can lead to higher rates. The riches are in the niches! The market will determine how wide or narrow our specializations need to be; for instance, when marketing to agencies, the narrowest I generally get is “life sciences,” whereas when pitching to direct clients, I cinch down to agriculture and plant science.

Brazil: I’m afraid I’ve seen more of Brazil than of the USA :-). I still haven’t been to the nordeste…hopefully someday soon!

]]> By: Renata Fernandes /starting-your-career/year-one-chronicle-first-twelve-months-as-professional-translator/#comment-544 Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:37:06 +0000 http://atasavvynewcomer.org/?p=1624#comment-544 Hi Paul. My first year as a translator began last December, and my greatest struggle so far has been with marketing. Like you, I started sending warm emails, but didn’t get any responses, except the ones regarding working as a volunteer translator. You see, unlike yourself, I have no field of expertise yet, though I do hold a degree in Education. But it’s really not my cup of tea anymore. So the challenge is to choose one or two fields I’m interested in and, in the meantime, prospect clients. Easy! Haha by the way, I’m from Brazil. When you came here, did you only stay in Manual?

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