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9473944 No.9473944[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Why don't you do Japanese translation work on the internet, /jp/?

There's plenty of Japanese translation jobs on those freelancing sites. You could make more than a regular job and you wouldn't even have to leave your house or talk to anyone.

>> No.9473966

Jokes on you, it's my mom's house.

>> No.9473980

I don't know Japanese though

>> No.9474000

Where do I go?
All I know is Mechanicalturk which I don't think pays much.

>> No.9474001

Why don't YOU?

>> No.9474033

I wouldn't know how to get started.

>> No.9474039

Find me a job for 40k+ per year and I'll do it.

>> No.9474076

>>9474000

There was a guy who'd pay a dollar per paragraph, but I don't think it's around any more, probably due to too many people using machine translations.

>> No.9474109

>>9474000

http://www.freelancer.com/work/japanese-translation/
http://www.guru.com/
http://www.ifreelance.com

There's other sites too. It pays very well.

Some people make 60k+ a year doing online translation work, especially if they know multiple languages.

>> No.9474138

Work is work. Just because I'm at home doesn't make it much better.

>> No.9474171
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9474171

How much would I make for translating jap games and viraling them to idiots?

>> No.9474175

>>9474109
>Everyone only wants natives
There goes that idea.

>> No.9474196

>>9474171
Loads.
Even more if you make pointless edits and your definition of translate is "Make up everything as you go along"

>> No.9474209

>>9474175

Only some of them want natives. I do plenty of jobs where that is never an issue, especially if you're translating from Japanese to English.

Learn a few other languages and you'll be set for life. I picked up German, French, and Spanish in a fraction of the time it took me to learn Japanese.

>> No.9474218

>>9474209
This sounds awful. I'd rather just get disability money.

>> No.9474227

There's a lot of competition
You need to be outgoing to convince the employer to pick you

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9474230

polyglot pride world wide

>> No.9474283

>>9474227

>You need to be outgoing to convince the employer to pick you

Not as much with freelance sites where you rarely work with the same person twice. It works more like ebay seller ratings. You do some low paying jobs, get some good reviews, and then people will pick you based on your ratings.

All that matters is the quality of the translation and the rating based reputation that you'll develop just from doing decent quality work.

>> No.9474307

>>9474171
I think this is my dream job.

>> No.9474318

>>9474209
So you live off of it then? How much do you work in the average week? I'd gladly waste a couple years learning some languages for a decent income as long as I don't have to slave away for 100 hours a week.

>> No.9474397

>>9474318

>So you live off of it then?

Yeah, been living off translation work for awhile now. I was a NEET and a shut-in back in 2007 and I didn't want to go to college. Spent about two years learning Japanese so I could play untranslated games, eventually realized I could make some money off it without actually socializing or going out, then I picked up German, French, and Spanish after I had spent some time doing translation work.

The amount of money you make is largely based around how much you're willing to work. I don't like to work too much, so on average I probably work about 20 hours a week at the most. Definitely far below the hours of even a part time job.

I could make a lot more if I worked more, but I make more than enough to afford my rent, buy all of the things I want, and live comfortably.

>> No.9474436

I live in a country where the government pays me for being retarded
no thanks

>> No.9474462

>>9474397

I want to believe.

>> No.9474473

>>9474397
That sounds pretty alright actually. I finally have some motivation to actually learn this shit. Thanks for that, even if you are lying.

>> No.9474499

>>9474397
...huh. Food for thought.
Maybe I SHOULD learn Japanese...but I keep thinking of how much 7th grade Spanish sucked...

>> No.9474506

Let me make up a story about making a lot of money online while being a truNEETxD and everyone will believe it!

>> No.9474561

The problem with freelance work is that you have to work hard. This is also what's good about it to some people.

Efficiency is fairly irrelevant in a regular job. You get a set income per hour and you can spend most of your day just sitting and not actually working. Most people work 40 hours a week, but only a small portion of that is spent working when you count all the time they spent twiddling their thumbs or talking to coworkers. Freelance work is completely based around efficiency because you don't make an hourly income so how hard you work directly relates to how much you make. You might work hard and finish a project in a day or two that will pay you more than a regular person's full week salary, but you actually had to work hard.

Work very hard for small amounts of time vs Work very little for long amounts of time

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9474594

>>9474561

>work hard

no thanks

>> No.9474595

>>9474561
That sounds nice.

>> No.9474620

>>9474506
Fuck you, nerd. I am believing him. Worst thing that could possibly come of it is I learned a language and that's hardly a terrible thing in its own right.

>> No.9474665

>>9474561

All work should be like this. Breaks and boredom counts as work to me. Socializing with people is exhausting and makes me suffer more than the work itself. If all jobs were just a checklist of daily tasks then you could blitz through it all in four hours instead of wasting away for eight.

>> No.9474710

I know very little japanese, but this is definitely a good motivator to learn it faster. However, after being a NEET for 7 years I'm going to apply for college next year. I was thinking on Computer Science but I'm not sure if all the study is worth it, so I was contemplating also taking art classes so I can live as an illustrator or even Graphic Design.

btw im 24

>> No.9474750

>>9474710

>Computer Science

Computer science is like engineering. Everyone piled in because they heard there's jobs here and then you come out a few years later with the other millions of college students who had the same idea and now you're in an extremely over-saturated field.

>> No.9474766

I've only been learning Japanese for two months now. Maybe later. I also only just recently started learning how to code, so I ain't making any money off that for a while either.

I almost started freelance writing some months ago. My work is good enough, but like was mentioned earlier, if you want to make money as a freelancer you actually have to work hard. I takes me several hours to write something good, and then several more hours to make fix it and make it better. I would have to do this just about every day because freelance writing doesn't pay a lot. Might as well get an actual job.

>> No.9474780

>>9474750
In my country its actually the opposite. There are plenty of jobs on the IT field, even the government is encouraging people to study CS or engineering crap.

>> No.9474783

>>9474750
its so easy to tell the shit coders apart. they cant find jobs because they suck. they ones that suck but still find jobs are the worst, because you work for/with them

>> No.9474798

>>9474783
Having trouble finding a job in an awful economy and a saturated field doesn't have anything to do with quality. Especially considering how low standards are.

>> No.9474946

One time I got a job. It was awful.

I'll die before I work again.

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