If after reading these articles you have decided that translation is not for you, or if after translating professionally for a while or longer you have decided that translation is no longer for you, I'll try to offer a few suggestions, some obvious and simple, others perhaps less obvious and more complicated, for other careers. Learning another language is a wonderful undertaking, and being able to use it for your career is a wonderful outcome of all that effort. But sometimes a professional pursuit must become a hobby, and so my suggestions will include ideas that have little directly to do with foreign language proficiency. At the same time, as someone who loves languages, I'll bear in mind the attitude and commitment translators have made to their languages. Despite the obvious relationship between translation and interpretation, the two are distinct vocations, each with its own skill set and preferred personality.
Interpretation is subdivided into consecutive interpretation and simultaneous interpretation.
The former involves listening to a speaker while taking notes on the content of the speech, then when the speaker chooses, to render that speech into the target language. The speaker may speak for a few minutes or upwards of a half hour. Also, consecutive interpreters are usually expected to interpret into and out of their native language. Simultaneous interpretation by contrast is typically done in a booth. The interpreter listens to the speaker using a set of headphones, then instantly renders the speech into the target language, almost always the interpreter's native language.