Location: office
Date: 2015
Topic: one of the interesting aspects of working as a translator is you get deep into a wide variety of topics. This is a practical example: I have carried out the translation of a book about medical experiments on human beings during the Third Reich, which implied strong nerves but mainly thorough terminology research.
What I do
During the translation phase I carry out a careful terminology search and try to go into the text yet maintaining detachment, in order to get the bigger view of what I am translating.