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Translation work while travelling

  • 11-05-2007 9:30pm
    #1
    hoey
    Registered Users Posts: 19 ✭


    Hi,
    I am just wondering if there is anyone out there who might be able to give me some guidance/advice.
    Basically I am getting very fed up in my current (office based) work...getting itchy feet and would like to go travelling for a few months. I would need to be able to have some income while abroad and so was wondering if there would be opportunity for doing translation work while travelling.
    I have legal qualifications and am trying to find out about getting some qualifications to translate legal documents from English into Irish. I have a pretty good standard of Irish, but am not a native speaker and am under no illusions but that I will have to make a major effort to get my target language up to standard, but with a lot of hard work I am confident that I could do it...
    But before I undertake all that study I have a few questions:

    Is this a realistic way to support oneself while travelling - ie is there sufficient volume of work out there, is it possible to do this type of work on a free lance basis, and is it relatively well paid?
    Are there any course that would be recommended to get language skills up to standard?
    Is there any standard exam/qualification which I should be working towards?

    I would be most grateful for any advice at all!

    Thanks,
    Hoey


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