Freelance translation work from India still pays, but not the way it did five years ago. The money has drained out of ordinary, high-volume translation and pooled in two places: work specialised enough that nobody dares put it through a machine unchecked, and the job of checking what the machine already produced. So the real question isn’t whether to start. It’s which of those two you’re aiming at, because they pay like different professions.<\/p>\n
Most of this is about the second market, because that’s the half where your rate survives.<\/p>\n
One thing before we start. You’ll meet translators with the same language skill as you who earn ten times what you earn. It’s almost never because their Hindi or their German is better. It’s which market they’re billing into, and what they can prove to somebody who’s never met them.<\/p>\n
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