New job, new horizons
I got a new job. I have been preparing myself for it for more then four years.
I still can recall that day when I woke up with odd feeling in the back of my mind telling me with a strange urge something like Start with English! Righ now! I obeyed that inner voice, without even knowing exactly the reason. I could have easily get along without English though it is better if one can understand this language. So I started that day, or better said I opened the book for self-taught persons. To my surprise my head was and still is able to soak up and digest all the new stuff.
Next week I met a young lady from Australia who moved to Prague years ago, got married and had children and made her living here giving English lessons. I asked her to teach me and we sort of struck a common chord immediately. Looking back I think this encounter was more then just a coincidence, it was in the cards to meet her and feel mutual liking. We were chating about everything, she repeatedly corrected me and I tried to study all she had explained to me.
The first year, I studied really hard, mostly many hours each day. After six months I visited England for the first time for a month to study English. It was so uplifting, so that the next year I visited that school again. And then again. I am aware that my English is simple and with many mistakes, yet I can speak about any subject and know the native speakers will understand.
About a year ago it occured to me that the main reason why all this has happened was just the need coming from my subconscious to change my job. One day I realized I don´t want to be a journalist any more but a translator. As a journalist I felt sort of burnt out, tired of all the tabloids topics even in the newspar that is trying to face a broadsheet. You know, in my country journalism has resorted to tabloid journalism more often. I used to work for the bigest Czech newspaper for more then 30 years, but enough is enough. I was just due for the mid-life career change.
In November last year I said to myself it was time to look for some new job. Two months later I found one and have been very busy since, working as a translantor for the Czech version of the US Reader´s Digest magazine. (that is the main reason of my silence). I was said my translations are more then good which is probably because I am able to edit them and put them into correct Czech shape. I used to work as a edior many years…
I feel it was worth undergoing this long and time-consuming process and that some new horizons may await. Maybe not but I am definitely opening a new chapter of my life.
I still can recall that day when I woke up with odd feeling in the back of my mind telling me with a strange urge something like Start with English! Righ now! I obeyed that inner voice, without even knowing exactly the reason. I could have easily get along without English though it is better if one can understand this language. So I started that day, or better said I opened the book for self-taught persons. To my surprise my head was and still is able to soak up and digest all the new stuff.
Next week I met a young lady from Australia who moved to Prague years ago, got married and had children and made her living here giving English lessons. I asked her to teach me and we sort of struck a common chord immediately. Looking back I think this encounter was more then just a coincidence, it was in the cards to meet her and feel mutual liking. We were chating about everything, she repeatedly corrected me and I tried to study all she had explained to me.
The first year, I studied really hard, mostly many hours each day. After six months I visited England for the first time for a month to study English. It was so uplifting, so that the next year I visited that school again. And then again. I am aware that my English is simple and with many mistakes, yet I can speak about any subject and know the native speakers will understand.
About a year ago it occured to me that the main reason why all this has happened was just the need coming from my subconscious to change my job. One day I realized I don´t want to be a journalist any more but a translator. As a journalist I felt sort of burnt out, tired of all the tabloids topics even in the newspar that is trying to face a broadsheet. You know, in my country journalism has resorted to tabloid journalism more often. I used to work for the bigest Czech newspaper for more then 30 years, but enough is enough. I was just due for the mid-life career change.
In November last year I said to myself it was time to look for some new job. Two months later I found one and have been very busy since, working as a translantor for the Czech version of the US Reader´s Digest magazine. (that is the main reason of my silence). I was said my translations are more then good which is probably because I am able to edit them and put them into correct Czech shape. I used to work as a edior many years…
I feel it was worth undergoing this long and time-consuming process and that some new horizons may await. Maybe not but I am definitely opening a new chapter of my life.
posted by Jan at 11:37 PM
3 Comments:
Yay! Congratulations Jan! Your English is very good, and I have seen it improve over the length of your blog! Good for you!
P.S. I wish you would enable your comments or publish an e-mail address on your blog or in your profile. (!)
Hey, did you figure it out?
Probably, thanks
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