Why being a translator?

After grade 12 and while trying to chose a university major, students usually face a difficulty in deciding what is suitable for them.
I have decided to be a translator, at first i was confused then day after day i fell in-love with this major.
What makes this major so special is that students take courses from different domains (legal translation, economic translation, medical translation, journalistic translation..) and this  helps them be more enlightened and learn an a huge amount of terms.
What i enjoyed the most during my four years of translation is a course called "Simultaneous" which is a challenging interpretation course by which we used to enter a cabinet and use a microphone and speakers to interpret a text that was recited to us by the teacher from another cabinet.

What are some future opportunities of a translator?
  
1- A translator can pursue his/her studies in translation and then teach at universities or start translating books, movies.. etc
2- A translator can pursue his/her studies after having a bachelor of translation and be an interpreter and then attend conferences or work at an embassy or with international organizations.
3- A translation can register at the translators syndicate and be a sworn translator and translate legal documents at his/her own office.

For me a translation is a very sophisticated profession and i would like to emphasize that translators cannot be substituted by machines because translation is not only about languages, its also about creativity, skills and cleverness.

  
 

Mother Teresa's Anyway Poem

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.