A guest post by Christopher Phipps, The Lousy Linguist
Let’s play a little thought game. Let’s pretend you have an academic background in linguistics with at least some graduate level study and now you want to find a job outside of academics, in industry. What should you expect to find? In the USA (and this is probably largely true of Europe as well), you should expect to find that most people misunderstand your skill set (you will first and foremost be wrongly categorized as a translator).