With the exception of a two-year spell spent in Stockholm, working as translator and editor for Nordregio, a Nordic institution for comparative spatial planning and regional policy, I have been working as a full-time translator for the past twelve years. Since the beginning of 1997 I have managed my own translation business, Scriptorium, after the volume of translation work had grown so much I could not manage it on my own any longer. I have been working primarily as an independent translator following a three-year period of employment at the Icelandic Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There I served as in-house translator and section supervisor for the Icelandic translations of the EU regulations, which were done as part of the preparation for the European Economic Area. At the conclusion of this period I did two