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A typical day

A translator's day is quiet: a document in the morning, a glossary open beside it, a machine draft to fix or a blank page to fill, then a self-revision pass and a colleague's revision. Maybe 2,000 words in a good day. An interpreter's day is the opposite: you show up at a courtroom, a clinic or a booth, work in 20 to 30 minute bursts with a partner, and finish drained.