This is the interview part and my chance to give my stigma. OK.
I enjoy the challenge of matching meanings between different languages. It is a rewarding unparalleled experience.
Can you make a German poem keep its rhyme and style in Greek? Sure you can, assuming you know how your creativity will not distort the intention and state of reasoning.
I have translated many technical documents/books/manuals for big corps, run web campaign analysis and established key performance indicators for a number of Web 2.0 Start Ups.
I have lived in all countries of my corresponding language pairs, and can articulate based on the special idiomatic syntax dictated by circumstances.
Speech is evolving from primate vocalizations to meaningful exchanges, and trends in cognitive science "threaten" to send translators to early retirement, since google will replace them?. I don't think so.