New Job

Office, Zimmerstraße, Berlin

I got a full time job! In my freelance existence as a film subtitle translator, work volumes through 2023 were up and down. And the general trend was… well, down. It was becoming increasingly difficult to budget in even a small net salary for myself.

In November 2023, I was offered full time employment as an in-house translator for a Berlin based fintech app. And now, mere months later, I’m sitting in Berlin, building and translating an entire fintech app to be made ready for the Danish market very soon.

Subtitling never took off the way I had envisioned it. So this was a needed change. Fintech is a much different beast than subtitling. Now, I’ll see translation from a different angle. Now, I’m applying everything I know about legal translation, copy writing, and financial terminology. Ich bin ein Berliner!

Fun fact: The cobbled stripe embedded in the road marks where the Berlin Wall once stood. (Photograph taken from the office building where I work, which is placed on the eastern side of the former wall).

Rest assured, I still have my beloved satellite office in the hills of Eastern Jutland on the old family farmstead, right by the coast line of the Kattegat sea in Denmark. This office I may - for tax reasons - use only in weekends and holidays away from my full time job. But I’ll take that deal! Because it feels good to know there’s always something called ‘home’.

Photographs my own