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Taps
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 Message 1 of 10
11 July 2012 at 5:30am | IP Logged 
Hi everyone,

I've just come back home (to the US) after studying abroad in Spain for six months. I have one year of college left
and I'm starting to think about what I might what to do after graduating. I received an email from my academic
advisor about an opportunity working as an English-Spanish court interpreter in Philadelphia, where I live. It seems
like a great and interesting opportunity but I don't know much about it. Has anyone on here ever worked as a court
interpreter? How was it? Did you enjoy your work?
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eggcluck
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 Message 2 of 10
11 July 2012 at 8:11am | IP Logged 
I have never worked in the industry but part of my Uni course involved law. I found the whole thing to be quite dry and mind numbingly boring.

Chair polishers complicating language trying to justify their jobs. I found it quite similar to those that proclaim actions *cough* I mean 'TPR' as this great new language learning thing and giving long horrible names for the same reason.
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newyorkeric
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 Message 3 of 10
11 July 2012 at 8:24am | IP Logged 
Eggcluck I don't understand how your post is at all related to Taps's question.

Edited by newyorkeric on 11 July 2012 at 8:24am

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eggcluck
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 Message 4 of 10
11 July 2012 at 9:00am | IP Logged 
" part of my Uni course involved law. I found the whole thing to be quite dry and mind numbingly boring. "
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newyorkeric
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 Message 5 of 10
11 July 2012 at 9:01am | IP Logged 
Yes, I saw that but the job that Taps is describing will have little to nothing to do with your experience taking a law class.
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eggcluck
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 Message 6 of 10
11 July 2012 at 9:15am | IP Logged 
Law is law, he would still be spending hours buried in law books and staring at legal documents.
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newyorkeric
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 Message 7 of 10
11 July 2012 at 9:17am | IP Logged 
Actually the job Taps is describing is interpreting witness testimony and aside from being located in a court room will have little to do with law.
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eggcluck
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 Message 8 of 10
11 July 2012 at 9:23am | IP Logged 
Actually no where in the question was that mentioned. A lot has been infered from a general statement.


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