My first paid for translation!

At the time, I was still at school and, obviously, those people of the translation agency wanted to be nice and do me a favour, since everybody has to start some day. In those days there were no computers and I had it all typed on an old-fashioned typewriter with glass inlay keys. After spending a beautiful summer day locked up in my room, translating, I asked my mother to proofread my translation. She said she liked it and changed everything. I returned my mother's translation to the agency, who said it was great and I never heard again from them.
A few years later, my brother gave me my first floppy disk in a German University. He said I could keep it and that it was worth nothing, because they had tons of that stuff. I could hardly believe him and took my treasure home - university property.
Again a few years later, and I bought my first Olivetti computer. It had a great design, was expensive like a car and used Word Perfect, which was then the must have.
What next? The big bang: I got my first modem and went global. It made astonishing noises, ringing, beeping, with lots of noise pollution, all hand operated.
Over the past years the biggest change might have been that translators regroup on websites to build a compelling, comprehensive translation offer.
This is why I registered on ProZ.com. So, if you need my language pairs, you know that you can rely on my translation services, available to you, on this website.

Johann Schlieder