Are there different kinds of translation job titles?
Yes and no. Most obviously, there are the titles you might expect for a translation professional. So an interpreter could be called an interpreter and, therefore, someone who works as an interpreter in the legal system might also be called a court interpreter. An interpreter in the medical field would call him or herself a medical or healthcare interpreter. For someone who’s a translator, there’s translator, literary translator, medical translator, judicial translator, freelance translator, and so forth. After that it gets trickier. For example, you could be a project manager—for a translation company—so your job title would be Translation Project Manager.-By Adriana Tassini
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