Choosing future career is one of the most crucial stage in a human’s life determining the quality of the lifestyle. I have decided to become a translator. As far as I am concerned , communicative skills and stress resistance including patience and diligence are highly required characteristics for a professional translator.
Without a doubt one of the most significant characteristic is having good communicators. These days the ability to build strong relationships with people is one of the key factors for getting a job. Translators realizing the need for this skill usually have non-stop practicing with native speakers in order to improve language knowledge and learn new about different nations and their traditions. For example , my mother has been a Chinese translator for more than 10 years , but she does not stop studying. Last year she had got an apprenticeship in a few international companies where she had the opportunity to collaborate with native speakers with different dialects and learn from them more about specifics in pronunciation and cultures in their region. After coming back my mother received many job offers due to the her language and communication skills growth.
After that it can highly be denied that assiduity is an equally important characteristic for a translator. This profession requires a to of time because a person needs to learn a new language in which there are many rules unknown for them. For instance , talking again about me mother I want to admit while she was a student she used to spent a lot of time at the library because of a large amount of given information. However, she didn’t give up and continued to study Chinese. For her it was a long process that helped her to work out in her stress resistance and others. This skills help her to take on more work than others could and as a result of which her success and respect are enormous and also high demand on he.
In conclusion, there are a lot of necessary characteristics for a translator. My personal view is that communication skills and endurance are keys to achieving success among the translators.