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Comment on Specializing? Listen to your heart! by Emeline Jamoul

Emeline Jamoul — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 12:00:14 +0000

Thanks very much for your great comment, Marga! It’s funny how so many mothers reacted to this blog post. Fertility treatment, that’s an original field! Who knows, maybe there is some demand there. Good luck :)!

Comment on Specializing? Listen to your heart! by Marga Burke-Lowe

Marga Burke-Lowe — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 11:49:04 +0000

Great post, and your example really spoke to me. I have sometimes thought that if I had a super-specialist niche, it would be breast pumps (I exclusively expressed for my daughter) and babywearing! Oh, and there is probably nothing I don’t know about fertility treatment. You’ve given me lots of food for thought, thanks.

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Specializing? Listen to your heart! - In Touch ... — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:31:38 +0000

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Comment on Specializing? Listen to your heart! by Isabelle Steenebruggen

Isabelle Steenebruggen — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 07:45:30 +0000

Hi Emeline,
Thank you so much for this post
All this about becoming a mother, and especially breastfeeding rings a bell to me. The moment I decided to translate texts that interested me was when I had my babies. And of course I was specially interested in texts about pregnancy, education, and, as you know, other values that I wanted to pass onto my children: sustainable development, fair trade, cooperation…
I am lucky enough to enjoy so much translating these texts and feel grateful for this
Have a nice week, see you tomorrow!

Isabelle

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Comment on Specializing? Listen to your heart! by Emeline Jamoul

Emeline Jamoul — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:15:24 +0000

Hello Julieta!
Veterinary medicine is also very interesting! It’s so nice when things evolve naturally, doesn’t it? That’s actually what I would like to write about next :).
I also always welcome variety in my work. After all, that’s what’s great about being freelancers!

Thanks for your kind words :)!

Comment on Specializing? Listen to your heart! by Julieta Vigna

Julieta Vigna — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:04:23 +0000

Great post, Emeline! I am also specializing as a medical translator, and, as one teacher once told me, sometimes your specialization finds you, and not the other way around! I have always been interested in medicine, and my husband is a vet, so little by little I have found myself moving towards this direction…and loving all about it!
I also believe that some variation is good for our brains, so I feel happy when I receive projects that have little in common with what I usually do, for the sake of change!
Congrats again for your post!
Cheers!
Julieta

Comment on Specializing? Listen to your heart! by Emeline Jamoul

Emeline Jamoul — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:50:29 +0000

Dear Amanda,
Thank you so much for commenting! I’m glad the article resonated with you. Your idea is great, and as this sector is currently expanding, I’m pretty sure you could carve yourself a niche :). Let me know if you decide on taking this path!

As for my new specialism, this is a work in progress. I was already translating medical texts in this sub-branch, so I have a number of clients who send me this type of document, but I would like to make it more substantial. This is going to take time, planning and creativity but I already have a few ideas in mind that I’d like to try to implement. Maybe this calls for a future blog post on my results!

Comment on Specializing? Listen to your heart! by Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 16:38:51 +0000

Great post, thanks Emeline! Really got me thinking, there’s one thing I’d love to do for work, but I’m just not sure how to go about finding clients who might be interested…the other slightly less, um, quirky shall we say, thing I would enjoy translating is about gluten free foods/restaurants/lifestyle etc as I have Coeliac Disease – also been contemplating starting a blog so I can share all the lovely cake photos and cafés I find on my travels! but I digress…

How did you start marketing your new ‘specialism’? Or didn’t you need to as you were already translating medical texts and didn’t really need to find new clients?

Thanks again!