Many countries are looking for ways to introduce foreign languages into their population due to its importance. Nations are including the most important languages in their schools curricula, since nowadays languages are used in almost every aspect of our lives: schools, universities, tourism, work, even in love. When someone studies a language from a very young age, it grows as a part of him/her life; on the other hand, when an adult starts studying it, it can take longer to dominate it; let’s face it, this rhythm of life makes it unfeasible to wait for a person to learn a language. Companies are facing the same situation with employees but fortunately, there are translation agencies to solve this problem. They offer
professional translation services so when a document has to be translated into any language, they do it.
Hiring them is not only a good idea if people cannot speak a language, sometimes they can speak it but they cannot
translate it. Translating is not only to put a text in another language word by word, to do it correctly, it is necessary to give the correct sense to the text you are translating. There will always exist differences between languages, be it a Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Germany or
French translation, it will always be different.
Usually translators work in translation agencies however, there are some freelancers that exercise it as a
Job freelance. Being a freelancer has advantages and disadvantages.
Some of the advantages are:
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You decide when to work or not.
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You are your own boss; there is nobody over you telling what to do and how to do it.
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You do not have a schedule to follow. You organize your time.
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All the profits are for you. When you work in a translation agency, you will earn a percent of the translations while the company keeps the other part.
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You can work whenever you are, as long as you have a computer and internet access you are ready to go.
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Some of the disadvantages are:
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Incomes are not regular. One month, you can have lots of clients and cero the next one. However, if you are good, your clients will be loyal.
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Since you are the only responsible of your time, you will have to organize it, to make sure you do all the work you have and right on time.
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You are also responsible of your money; payments of services, taxes, etc are only your responsibility.
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Since you are not working in a company, you are not in a pay roll so, you do not have benefits like: paid vacations, insurance, pension, etc.
