Further possibilities exist in the hotel, restaurant, and tourism industries. Admissions position, Swiss Hospitality Unit. A History major might go into Advertising, an Anthropology major might end up doing market research. While the variety of jobs Liberal Arts majors have access to is part of what makes such course work exciting, it is also a cause for much anxiety. In general, the significance of a good translation is often dismissed or belittled, and its importance misunderstood and undermined.
Translation requires much skill and thought.
At that moment, I have to resolve ambiguity, grasp subtlety and level of language, even follow the author's style, to be able to render a precise and readable translation. After talking to an aunt, a translator at the U.N., I realized that if I wanted to make a career out of translation, I would need to sharpen my language and translation skills. Two advantages of working for an agency are that it helps you to further develop skills and you may be able to build up a clientele. While agencies are not known to pay the highest wages, they allow a translator to fully concentrate on work, instead of spending precious time dealing with clients and looking for supporting documentation and dictionaries. An experienced translator may choose to free-lance.