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Poll: Do you have a yet to be fulfilled professional dream? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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John Cutler 
Spain
Local time: 04:43
Spanish to English
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| Yes, but limited by lack of time. | Jun 28, 2010 |
Just one? I've probably got about a dozen.
I was thinking recently of going back to university to broaden my career possibilities and open doors to other things I'd like to do professionally. As usual, it's a matter of time, or should I say a lack thereof?
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William Murphy
Italy
Local time: 04:43
Member (2009)
Italian to English
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John Cutler wrote:
Just one? I've probably got about a dozen.
I was thinking recently of going back to university to broaden my career possibilities and open doors to other things I'd like to do professionally. As usual, it's a matter of time, or should I say a lack thereof?
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| My dreams are modest but... | Jun 28, 2010 |
The dreams remain to be accomplished. The dream of achieving the interpreting speed and stamina to work part of the time as a conference booth interpreter; the control of registers to write my also-dreamed book in my second-language Spanish, by myself ...
And then there are the more-personal dreams: you know that there are over 6 billion people in the world and that over half of those are women. Whew, I really have my work cut out for me on the romance!!  ... See more The dreams remain to be accomplished. The dream of achieving the interpreting speed and stamina to work part of the time as a conference booth interpreter; the control of registers to write my also-dreamed book in my second-language Spanish, by myself ...
And then there are the more-personal dreams: you know that there are over 6 billion people in the world and that over half of those are women. Whew, I really have my work cut out for me on the romance!!  ▲ Collapse
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| Well, there are about 6000 languages spoken on earth... | Jun 28, 2010 |
...not counting 4000 dead languages, if I could speak so 9998 or 9999 of them perfectly, it would be great! And my greatest dream on earth: I want to be a wonderful pianist and I am only a bad one. If I also could be a perfect organist, flutist, guitarist, violonist, violoncellist, hornist... THAT would be GREAT!
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Colin Ryan (X)
Local time: 04:43
Italian to English
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| Publish, publish, publish... | Jun 28, 2010 |
I'm not sure if this counts as a professional dream, exactly, but one day I'd like to have my poetry translations published. Since this is more pleasure than business (and hardly what you'd call lucrative!) I guess it's more of a personal dream. But it IS translation, so I answered "yes" to the poll.
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| Getting paid for what my work is worth... | Jun 28, 2010 |
Can this be considered a "yet to be fullfilled professional dream"?
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Rebekka Groß (X)
Local time: 03:43
English to German
| Are there really people out there that have 'professional dreams'? | Jun 28, 2010 |
No, I'm just happy to do what I'm doing. My dreams are about other things
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Sara Senft
United States
Local time: 22:43
Spanish to English
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| Yes, but I'm working on it | Jun 28, 2010 |
The main professional dream I have would be to become qualified/certified to interpret in my state's court system. Right now, it's a work in progress. I've passed one of the exams so far.
Another dream I have is more personal than professional, but it is related to my profession. I would like to learn Portuguese. It would take a lot of time and work before I would feel comfortable adding it as a working language--if that happens---but if I don't, it could come in handy some ot... See more The main professional dream I have would be to become qualified/certified to interpret in my state's court system. Right now, it's a work in progress. I've passed one of the exams so far.
Another dream I have is more personal than professional, but it is related to my profession. I would like to learn Portuguese. It would take a lot of time and work before I would feel comfortable adding it as a working language--if that happens---but if I don't, it could come in handy some other time. You never know. ▲ Collapse
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| well...there is | Jun 28, 2010 |
that novel!
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I didn't really know which answer to chose: there are indeed things I want to achieve in my professional life, but I'm not sure I would call them dreams. As Rebekka says, my true "dreams" are rather in other areas of life.
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Cristina Munari
Italy
Local time: 04:43
Member (2008)
English to Italian
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| No, I consider myself professionally fulfilled | Jun 28, 2010 |
Rebekka Groß wrote: No, I'm just happy to do what I'm doing. My dreams are about other things
and I agree with Rebekka!
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C. Tougas
Canada
Local time: 22:43
Member (2009)
English to French
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| Sometimes life takes you into one direction | Jun 28, 2010 |
...but your heart would have taken you into another. But now, many years later, I am doing something about it. After a tough year on a personal level, I very recently quit my full-time job and registered in a local university in the field that was my first career choice many moons ago. Whether it leads to something or not, at least I will be able to say: "I tried."
And that, to me, is priceless.
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 04:43
Member (2009)
English to German
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| Yes, it does! | Jun 28, 2010 |
ryancolm wrote:
I'm not sure if this counts as a professional dream, exactly, but one day I'd like to have my poetry translations published. Since this is more pleasure than business (and hardly what you'd call lucrative!) I guess it's more of a personal dream. But it IS translation, so I answered "yes" to the poll.
To have a poetry book published is quite an experience, for sure. I know, cause I have 2 of mine published in print plus those in e-book format. And would like to see them translated - and published - in all the major languages.
To fluently speak all the languages I'm interested in - some 500+ - is one of my dreams. The other is to have my screenplays produced with subtitles in various languages for all you qualified translators here.
We can always dream, no?
Regards
Thayenga
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| My Professional Dream is... | Jun 28, 2010 |
...not to have to work anymore...
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