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> Back in my days as a professional translator This is nit-picking, and I apologize, but presumably you mean your days as a professional interpreter, based on

• hawkice 11y ago
  As long as we are nitpicking: That phrase structure exists to contextualize a timeframe, not introduce a topic. In the same way you could say, "back in my days as a sommelier-in-training, we used to make jokes about people who would keep swallowing the wine and get a little bit too buzzed to go completely under the radar". Now, that isn't an element of sommelier training, the making jokes, or the getting drunk. But it gives you enough context to understand how the other (different but extremely related) events happened.