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Originally Posted by letsdance  I worked for the government for years, and they are always happy to get a skilled linguist who can qualify for a security clearance. I loved my work and I had great co-workers. |
Perhaps you could advise me on how to find an interesting, untormenting job with my linguistic abilities (and one that doesn't pay so poorly that I am in one of the lowest tax brackets...). I am currently a translator of Finnish and Swedish into English and, while in the past this job, particularly having to decipher Finnish writing, has caused me hours of torment, my job has now withdrawn to the very background of my life, thanks to my not focusing on bad things I think.
Nevertheless, when other things are sorted out in my life, the job is the next thing to change.
I have an honours B.A. with a double major in German and Scandinavian languages and historical linguistics. Finnish is not one of the languages I ever studied, however. Imagine that they were so desperate for native English-speakers who can translate Finnish that I was just hired after 6 months in this country, with hardly any knowledge of Finnish and basically learned (to the extent that I have learned it) Finnish by translating. (I had to begin translating Swedish and German.)
French and Swedish are my best languages, German would be ok if I could brush up on it, and if I have to keep translating for a living, I am absolutely going to dump Finnish as one of my languages.