Translator and PM possible career shift?
Hi there!
My gf has been working as an EN<->ES translator for RWS (old SDL) for the past 6 years. She’s been doing raw translation projects, post-editing after MTs, coordinating and preparing projects for freelancers and other teams. Shes on the medical and pharmaceutical translation team.
Right now theres an announcement of layoffs at their office, and even though their team is somehow a bit protected from AI because clients asks for manual translation and human QA, there would maybe come a day they would lay off all of them and just rehire them for some time until AI reaches more quality.
I know this would probably be a common question nowadays, but do any of you shifted your career into other areas?
I am (ironically) an AI Lead in a small Barcelona business and software engineer. I could initiate her into Python and some NLP to be prepare her for a Computational Linguistics masters degree, but Im not sure if the field is already saturated or the people who get the jobs are PHD and research-oriented profiles.
On the other hand, do you think medical and clinic translation will require human translation for a long time and maybe she should just stay as a freelancer?
Thanks in advance :)