Editorial Assistant Foreign Language Job Questions & Answers

5 answers - Asked By: Jonathan - 12/31/2012

Can anyone in a related position recommend tips for getting my foot in the door? Reading, writing and books are my passion and I need to find out more information on my career preference-any tips or websites would be most welcome!

1 answer - Asked By: wronged - 2/6/2008

Lately, I've been thinking about being a film critic when I'm older and I was curious if anyone knows what A Levels I'd need or work experience and even what I would have to do at university to do it. Also, how would I get into the job once I'd done everything. I'm only 16 and I know I shouldn't be worrying about that now, but I am curious about it. Thanks in advance!

2 answers - Asked By: mitzymoux - 4/2/2008

Hi there, I'm currently an A level student, and am thinking about future career ideas. I love languages, and enjoy learning them, and I think I would definitely like to have a career involving languages. Can anyone please suggest any job ideas I can look into? Excluding the obvious ones like translation, interpretation, teaching and anything involving the airport/ holiday related things. I was thinking of maybe something in the media? Or a business related career but I need some specific ideas, could anyone help please? :) Thanks very much!

1 answer - Asked By: - 12/24/2011

Are there many job opportunities in professional writing and what are my possibilities in choosing a job. in other words, whar career path can I take. i am thinking about changing my major to professional writing/ english. I am only thiry hours away from having a BS in professional writing.

3 answers - Asked By: Hope - 8/2/2006

Immigration policy is 'udderly' unworkable By Birch Faber and Brad Hash The Idaho Dairymen's Association recently launched a new effort to promote immigration reform, the Times-News reported Feb. 21. "Immigration reform is important to the economy of Idaho and the United States," an association official told the newspaper. "Our goal is to protect the borders but also to promote responsible immigration reform." This effort by the dairymen is one more example of how states, communities and industries throughout the Rocky Mountain West are forced by economic necessity to assert leadership in the nation's dysfunctional immigration system. The failure of the federal government to create a realistic pathway to permanent residence - or even to develop a functional guest worker system - has left many Western businesses struggling to adequately staff their operations. The dairymen's association in December hired a prominent immigration lawyer and formed a business coalition to "push for stable immigration policy on a national level." It was just a month earlier that Border Patrol agents arrested more than 100 i****************s in the Twin Falls area. Many businesses, especially those in agriculture and the booming construction sector, rely heavily on immigrant labor. Among those laborers are 20,000 to 35,000 undocumented workers in Idaho, according to estimates from the Pew Hispanic Center. Illegal immigration is a serious problem. But it's just one symptom of the real malady - an immigration policy that doesn't serve our nation's needs and threatens to undermine prosperity in the West. Idaho's dairymen are not alone in their desire for reform. For example, ranchers in Colorado who depend on seasonal guest workers are shorthanded because permits for would-be employees are frequently delayed, denied or unavailable due to unrealistically small annual quotas. In order to combat the labor scarcity, Colorado lawmakers have proposed the creation of an office in Mexico to recruit guest workers, a policy that would challenge the federal leadership our immigration law anticipates. Arizona is also coping with a severe labor shortage and is considering its own temporary worker program. These efforts are examples of states forced to patch problems that the federal government fails to resolve. Job growth throughout most of the Rockies has for years exceeded the ability to fill them with American-born workers. Our region's economic prosperity rides on the availability of workers. Federal law, however, makes lawful immigration virtually impossible for many of the workers we need. The United States allows a mere 10,000 people with "essential skills" to obtain work visas yearly - a tiny fraction needed to fill the jobs waiting for people with those skills. Legitimate businesses run great risks as they attempt to operate on the receiving end of failed immigration policy. Existing immigration law also makes no provision for most of the undocumented workers in our region to obtain work visas. They're here illegally because there's no legal way for them to take the opportunities our economy offers. As willing workers are increasingly denied access to vacant U.S. jobs, significant losses for businesses are mounting throughout the Rocky Mountain region. The current system forces industries and states to pursue stop-gap remedies. But the solution isn't to add special exemptions for particular industries like agriculture - we've already done too much of that and the results have contributed to the present quagmire. The solution is to comprehensively fix our broken system of immigration so that the best way to immigrate to America is to do so legally and so employers can count on legal immigrants to fill jobs for which there are no native-born workers. Birch Faber and Brad Hash are research assistants for Western Progress, a Missoula, Mont., nonpartisan policy institute focused on the Rocky Mountain West. http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2008/03/05/opinion/reader_comments/132183.txt

1 answer - Asked By: new name - 3/5/2008

I am in college right now studying to become a science teacher, but I'm starting to have second thoughts about this. I'm very quiet and subdued, and it seems like every good teacher I've met is someone who is wild and outgoing. I'm just wondering if there are any good careers out there for people who like to read and write a lot. I write a weekly column for my school newspaper (unpaid), and I've gotten two short stories published on an online journal (paid). I really don't care about the money as long as I can eat and stay off the streets. I don't want to change my major to English though and then be unemployed if it turns out that there is nothing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

7 answers - Asked By: Rylan - 3/25/2012