Saturday, March 7, 2009

Spanish anyone?

P. asks me an opinion about an interpreter job he is considering applying to. 6 days, consecutive, 8 hours a day (they wrote 7.5 hours, but that's one among the many bullshit lip service wording the recruiting blurb is larded with). They want a SPANISH <=> JAPANESE interpreter Interpreting between Spanish speaking craftsman visiting Japanese store and Japanese staff/ customers. The interpreter must be fluent in Spanish to which they add : "Interpretation experience preferred". So the middlemen want an interpreter who preferably has interpretation experience. The hourly pay is about twice what they pay at McDonalds in Tokyo. A freshly landed manga geek from Europe may secure a better per hour language course. P. is not an interpreter but times are hard and he needs money.

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