[26] Outstanding Career Options For Polyglots

In this episode, I go over some of the absolute best career options for language learners and polyglots (including some less common ones).

Summary:

Career can be a great extrinsic motivator for language learning (though intrinsic motivation is better long-term).
Translation is the most popular choice – working with the written word.
Interpretation is the next one but is often confused with translation. While translation is to do with written text, interpretation is the spoken word.
Foreign language intelligence is good for people who love languages and have exceptional people skills.
Teach it. Although teaching as a non-native speaker isn’t desirable most of the time, it’s still valuable in the right circumstances.
Customer service positions for people with foreign language skills abound these days.
The military. While you may not have a choice which language you learn, you’ll still be paid to learn languages and get salary increases for every language you learn.
Become a language blogger or content creator (i.e. YouTube). This can be incredibly lucrative and allow you to help a lot of people with what you’ve learned. See my article on language blogging.
Try humanitarian work. There are loads of opportunities around (some pay, most don’t).
Check out companies like Appen which hire computational linguists.