Who would ever thing that you can make money by translating languages? About ten years ago I was doing my MBA in Hamburg, Germany and looking for a way to make money with my laptop. I first checked out a few survey websites and other things, like where you answer questions and then get paid for your opinion. I also checked out this site Ciao, not even sure if it still exists. You get paid for reviewing products or stores. Heck, I even considered mystery shopping....weird.
Anyway, somehow I got to this website where you register and then you take a test or two and then translate for money. It didn't make sense to me at first, because how do they know you are not just using Google Translate or something? But they actually have really advanced quality assurance and quality management processes. This I only found out later. But in the meantime I started making money by translating short texts from German to English. The weird thing is I couldn't really even speak German fluently yet at that point. But my clients liked my work so they paid my (with paypal).
I kept doing it part time after that while I got some well-paying management jobs back in South Africa. About four years ago I went full time, and am still enjoying the benefits in terms of time flexibility, and earning foreign currency like dollars, euros, and pounds.
Have a wonderful day!!!
Cillie
Very interesting to read how you got into translation work. Interesting how life takes us on different paths and ways. Thank you for sharing.
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That is true... Can't believe it...
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Can I know this site? My son and I speak english, spanish and italian. Would like to participate and earn! By the way I've done mystery shopping for years. Love it!
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LOL thanks for the comment! You know what, I would love to try mystery shopping. It must be really exciting, kind of like spying. There are so many websites where you can sign up. Here are just a few:
www.transperfect.com
https://www.strakertranslations.com
www.idioma
Let me know if you need any help!
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Awesome thank you! I definitely enjoy doing mystery shops! Some are more exciting than others. Always interesting though.
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Why did you decide to start doing it?
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Why did you start doing it, just curious?
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Actually I had just learned how to build myself a computer and said to myself there must be another use for this huge equipment in my living room that can earn me some money... The rest is history.
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Nice, how did you build it yourself?
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I bought a book for $24.99 - "How to Build PC's for dummies."
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Nice, why did you do it yourself?
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How do you get into mystery shopping?
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I did a lot of research to weed out the fraudulents sites. I'm now registered with about 75 sites which send me 100's of possible jobs every week.
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Well done, can you send me some good site? Would really appreciate it.
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Where are you located?
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South Africa, how about you?
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From New York. Not sure about companies in South Africa. Let me see what I can find out
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Thanks that would be great. They don'w have to be in South Africa. How did you get started?
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How are you @ayishagisel can you do me a favour and resteem this post for me?
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good for you :)
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Thanks.... Just curious how do you usually decide what tags to use on your posts?
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hey sorry for the late response never saw your reply till now :( I'm from vancouver island but working in indonesia right now ..i dont really post content to much but when i do i just go off the top of my head for tags lol
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What do you do?
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fly helicopters :) i fight the forest fires here
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Nice man, how did you get into that job?
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actually got it thru a friend that i met in Saudi Arabia when i was flying medivac choppers..the heli business is a pretty small community believe it or not :) i'm 46 been flying since i was 19 so i've been around the block a couple of times hahaha actually been around the world 31 times
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What is a medivac chopper? Why did you start so young!!!
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Thanks!!! Where are your from?
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How are you @kersmash can you do me a favour and resteem my post?
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