I Want To Be A Simulator

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Consider something in your life you think goes unnoticed and write about why it's important to you

Working as a translator gives me the stability necessary to exercise my freedom. I sometimes forget the value of my work. As a freshman at Vassar College, I did not find satisfaction. I wanted to leave. To do that, I thought I needed financial independence. I happened to be had interested in translation; within a semester, I worked through my first volunteer position, to my current job translating webtoons, or Korean web comics. Eventually, I decided to continue my education. Studying Japanese at the college level was the one thing I could not give up easily. So, I no longer required immediate financial freedom. I became a translator to quit college. But I am still a translator, even though I plan to stay in school. The logical fallacy urged to me think about why I continued my work. I dismissed the idea that I carried on out of habit; I firmly believe in living so that my actions are not without purpose. …show more content…

What sort of job keeps me working? I realized I have three criteria for a good occupation. I must be able to perform the job well, at the least adequately. The work must keep my jar of rice full, to borrow a Korean expression. Lastly, the work should be fun or fulfilling, preferably both. I had not noticed that my current job fulfills the first and third conditions. How lucky am I to have reached such a job in the first nineteen years of my life? As fun and engrossing translation can be, it does not keep my jar of rice completely full currently. The global webtoon market is estimated to reach $1 billion in 2018. However, I am not a creator or a distributor who holds most of the money. If I were wasteful with my pay, my work would leave me little more than pocket money. If I were stingy, my parents would not need to support me through financial means. In reality, I am somewhere in

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