The Side Hustle of a Book Translator

It's just years of applying and pitching himself, trying to climb this corporate ladder that just would not have him. That application and rejection cycle starts to tell a bit of a story about a person who's frustrated. He finally has some luck in 2018 when an Italian publisher starts having him translate some best-hellers out of China. Eventually, he secures a full-time job in the foreign rights department at Simon & Schuster UK. Things are starting to go well. A book he translates ends up on a fancy 10 books to read last summer list everyone in the industry cares about. And yet it would seem, even as his fortune is kind of turning around,. he keeps up this