Invest in travels for your localization career
Or just use it as an excuse, up to you
From the bottom of my heart mind
Fresh stories from a Spanish Copywriter.
One of the main reasons I started freelancing was the chance to work remotely. Just a few years back (before the pandemic), very few companies offered a remote working policy. Now there are more, but still not enough (in my humble opinion).
I didn’t plan to go full nomad, but instead stay a few days after a holiday trip, spend some months in other countries, maybe even move to a new destination.
I've found a lot of us (us=people who work on the localization field) have a common traveling background:
They like to travel (and are always planning a new trip)
They have lived in different countries (mostly more than 2)
They enjoy multicultural environments, both in their work and in their personal life.
I can say traveling has made me a better professional. Just when I started living outside Spain, I learn the most about Spanish people and culture and how different it was from the outside.
For example, for me is normal to have dinner at 22:00. And it was normal because I did it since I was a kid, because my parents do it, my friends too, etc. But when you live abroad and the first booking for dinner is at 18:00, you know it might be something unique.
When you have dinner every day at 18:00, then you know is something unique for sure.
This is why I see traveling as a real investment in my career (one that I enjoy a lot, not gonna lie). If you work in localization, consider to include this into your routine and try to get as much as possible out of it.
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Where the magic really happens.
🧨 If you want to get hyper-local, Valencia is getting ready for las fallas. Type “mascletà” on Google, put the sound and enjoy.
📦This week I’m moving to my new apartment. This involves a lot of cleaning, buying, packing and Instagram reels about “how to decorate a small apartment”.
🔆 Becoming of March and spring is already here (at least at this side of the Mediterranean Sea). Crazy.
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