Career ideas for stuck linguist?
August 4, 2011 8:45 AM Subscribe
Careers advice for UK local government linguist?
My GF is stuck with what to do with herself and hates her job. She is a junior manager in UK local government, with a masters degree in public sector management. She is a pretty good linguist speaking French, Italian and German fluently and has a good undergraduate degree too. She is in no imminent danger of redundancy, but finds her current role so dull its making her depressed. I guess she would really love to do a job with more of a purpose, perhaps with a charity or the voluntary sector, failing which, something which lets her travel more would be great too. I thought that, absent any other ideas, I ought to pick the hive mind. Any and all ideas very much appreciated! I'm posting anon because my username could be tracked back to her, at least in theory...
My GF is stuck with what to do with herself and hates her job. She is a junior manager in UK local government, with a masters degree in public sector management. She is a pretty good linguist speaking French, Italian and German fluently and has a good undergraduate degree too. She is in no imminent danger of redundancy, but finds her current role so dull its making her depressed. I guess she would really love to do a job with more of a purpose, perhaps with a charity or the voluntary sector, failing which, something which lets her travel more would be great too. I thought that, absent any other ideas, I ought to pick the hive mind. Any and all ideas very much appreciated! I'm posting anon because my username could be tracked back to her, at least in theory...
I work as a lobbyist and political consultant. It is next to impossible to hire talent at any level in Brussels which natively speaks English and has two other community languages.
Send your other half to Brussels. She will clean up working for a trade association out here. And that might open the door to a Nick Clegg type euro-civil service gig. She's got a rare gift. If she goes to where the work is, she will thrive!
posted by dmt at 4:20 PM on August 4, 2011
Send your other half to Brussels. She will clean up working for a trade association out here. And that might open the door to a Nick Clegg type euro-civil service gig. She's got a rare gift. If she goes to where the work is, she will thrive!
posted by dmt at 4:20 PM on August 4, 2011
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posted by ClaudiaCenter at 9:08 AM on August 4, 2011