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It's been disrupted, though. A lot of translators are now being offered MTL editing work instead, which pays worse and produces lower quality (but takes less ti
by kevingadd 3y ago
It's been disrupted, though. A lot of translators are now being offered MTL editing work instead, which pays worse and produces lower quality (but takes less time).
- re-thc 3y agoAnd there are less roles (in numbers)
- epolanski 3y agoThat is not true, one of my closest friends has a translating agency, he often says the sector has boomed with stuff like google translate. Essentially professional translations are now much more accessible to people that would've not been able to afford them in the first place. Yes, it pays less per page, depends on the type of translation actually, but it is also much faster to do and there's more business.
- kevingadd 3y agoYou're talking about the POV of the owner of a translation agency, and how he's getting more business because he can charge less and deliver "translations" faster via MTL. I'm talking about the job market for translators. These are different things.
- epolanski 3y agoYes, they have much more work now, that is the point. Does it pays less on per page basis? It mostly does (but it highly depends on the type of translations: legal, medical, etc have the same fees) but it is more than compensated by being able to churn much more work by focusing on reviewing and interpreting the author's meaning and context.