Introduction.

You are about to finish college in Language and it is time to decide what to do next. The only problem is that you feel absolutely and completely lost. You honestly feel as if you are floating into space and it is maddening. Following a full existential crisis, or rather a good five minutes overthinking everything, you decide to seek help from your parents. After a long, serious, and, let's admit it, very boring conversation, you come to narrow your options to either continue your studies in Translation at UQAM or take a break from studies.

Choice 1 : You take a break from studies and continue later.

Choice 2 : You go study in Translation at l'UQAM.

You take a break from studies and continue later.

You stop your decision on taking a break from your studies. Now that you have time to think, you begin to ponder how you could make this break beneficial to your existence. Maybe, you could visit your friend in Tasmania? It would ameliorate your verbal skills since you always feel like melting into the floor whenever you need to do so. Or maybe you could find a job that will orient you somewhere you can use your multilingual learning to good use? What to do?

Choice 1 : You visit your friend.

Choice 2 : Find a job.

You go study in Translation at l'UQAM.

So now that you have chosen to continue to study in Translation, you feel appeased for a moment. Only for a moment, because your anxiety comes back in full force the second you enter university. You are overwhelmed by the amount of schoolwork much too soon for your taste, and it really does not help you to be a model student. Really, the various syntax, speech structures, translation recording, and pronunciations exercises you need to do are enough for you to want to put aside your schoolwork for later. But you also know that doing this will only lead to the worst study conditions there are. So, it is with a half-dead brain that you make a snap decision about the attitude to take concerning your academic parkour.

Choice 1 : Put your schoolwork aside.

Choice 2 : Do your schoolwork dutifully.

You visit your friend.

You discard the idea of finding a job and opt to go visit your Tasmanian friend. Once you arrive there, your friend manages to convince you to become a volunteer at a community center for immigrants learning English. You surprise yourself in loving what you do there. Your oral skills come in very handy as there are people who don't speak a single word in English and need all the help they can get to understand what they need to do. You see your language skills skyrocket from the experience and volunteering makes you feel accomplished. You have the impression to understand more in-depth a side of the job of an interpreter. You would like to go on, but your stay near its end. It is only then that your friend proposes to make you visit the place even though you need to leave in a couple of days. You want to go but also do not want to miss your flight.

Choice 1 : You go to explore the area.

Choice 2 : Stay at your friend's place.

You find a job.

You decide to find a job. After multiple unsuccessful shots, someone accepts your application and tells you to come back tomorrow to start. The only problem is that the person talks German and you don't really understand everything she says. You shrug and tell yourself can not be so bad and might get your foot in the door. It turns out you really don't master German. You don't see the purpose of stamping paper with the same miserable three stamps. So instead of dying of boredom, you resolutely walk into your boss's office to quit. Once it is done, you sadly resolve yourself to go back to school but think that is always better than staying in a dead-end job.

Choice 1 : Introduction.

You put your schoolwork aside.

You succumb under the magnetic full of procrastination. You find time management extremely difficult. This difficulty organizing your time discourages you further and so you continuously put aside your homework until the very last minute. Who takes advance in their schoolwork anyway? Your lack of motivation induces you into putting cursory efforts into your schoolwork. And thus, your grades are almost never above the average but you tell yourself that you have time to catch yourself up. Until you can't and you need to go to summer courses. The thing is that you already have plans for the summer. You are once again hesitating.

Choice 1 : Go to summer courses.

Choice 2 : Go with your original plans.

You do your schoolwork dutifully.

You decide to kick yourself in the behind and do your work. Or rather, your little sister, tired of hearing you constantly wallow in toxic guilt thoughts every night, does not hesitate to put you back in place and force you to start your homework straight after your courses. It gives you time to put thorough efforts into your studies and allow some much-needed rest. After an indefinite amount of groaning and hard work, you're finally pulling off good grades. A fellow Communication student, impressed by your flagrant amelioration, takes upon himself to tell you that his sister's workplace, a courthouse, is hiring. Since the majority of Legal interpreters it hires are seniors and prepare their retirement, the courthouse is searching for people to replace them who studied either in Language or Translation. The guy asks you if you are interested because he thinks you are a perfect candidate for the job. You are grateful for the suggestion, but you would also like to search for something on your own. The momentous mental clash rends you unable to answer.

Choice 1 : Accept the offer.

Choice 2 : You try to find something yourself.

You accept the offer.

Now that you find yourself in a courthouse a few days a week, your schedule changes drastically. The work of a Legal interpreter necessitates a lot of concentration and the pressure of translating information rapidly for clients who do not even fully trust what you report really takes a toll on your mood. Your self-esteem seems to crumble to dust with each harsh comment you hear. More often than not, you find yourself staying up the wee hours of the night to achieve impossible deadlines. You analyze your situation and conclude you either need to let go of an occupation or continue running your life like a zombie.

Choice 1 : Continue with both job and studies.

Choice 2 : Let go of a choice.

You try to find something yourself.

Decidedly, you definitely regret declining your coursemate offer. To find outlets related to Translation studies is a lot more difficult on your own especially when the number of contacts you have is next to none. So, unless you want to finish in the fetal position and fill the oceans with your tears, you better go back and take the chance. God knows you need it.

Choice 1 : Do your schoolwork dutifully.

You continue with both job and studies.

You choose to continue this exhaustive pattern even though your entire being is screaming to get some rest. You cannot stop now, your entire life depends on this opportunity! Who knows when you will able to find a job using practical skills if you decide to quit and continue as a full-time student? And who would employ someone freshly out of school with no experience? Plus, the wage you earn only adds extra money in pocket and could facilitate your living later. You manage to finish your session alive despite the endless sleepless nights necessary to finish all your schoolwork. You know this lifestyle is not healthy, but at least now you can afford better recording apps, microphones, and vegetables instead of contenting yourself with noodles and the mediocre equipment that comes with a regular computer.

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You let go of a choice.

You make the heartbreaking choice of letting go of an occupation in order to save your sanity. You regretfully let go of your job even though your colleagues practically beg you to stay. You hold your ground and take your leave of the courthouse for good... Or at least until you finish university. After that, you really feel lighter and study don't sound as much of a chore as before. Once you obtain your diploma, you begin to apply for different formal organizations in need of multilingual service. It is with surprise that most of them contact you back because of your time at the courthouse. Look like you are not so much of a lost cause after all.

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You go to explore the area.

You let your friend tempt you. You both ransack the entire house to find hiking shoes and fill your backpacks with snacks, maps, your fully charged phones, sweaters, and compass. You additionally add your passport, other important papers, and your wallet to yours. What? You never know when a highly wanted criminal in desperate need to escape from the country can barge into the house and thefts all that would permit you to return home. After admiring the Tasmanian landscapes and hiking hours long to see the infamous Tasmanian devil, you both return to the house once you comprehend that you only have a couple of hours to pack your belongings and make it to the airport. You do make it on time after breaking the speed limits and enough red lights to last you a lifetime. All this trouble goes to waste when you learn that your flight is delayed.

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You stay at your friend's place.

To stay that your friend has an adorable pout is the understatement of the decade. She nearly makes you cave, but you manage to convince her that your choice suits you better. So, you spend the last days of your stay listening to her grumbling in an indecipherable accent all while you pack your suitcase. The day of your departure arrives but having a day without any problem is apparently too much to ask. Just before you put your suitcase on the conveyor belt that leads to the plane's suitcase, you ask for your seat number. The employee replies that the plane is overbooked and since your seat was not reserved, you do not have a place on it and need to book one on another flight.

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You go to summer courses.

You decide that you need to stop fooling around if you want to get somewhere in your life, and so you force yourself to go to summer courses. Some people are obviously annoyed with your choice and try to dissuade you of your decision. But, you put your foot down and decide that your studies are more important than anything else at the moment. Surely with some efforts, you will be able to pull off straight A's just as you are capable of.

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You go with your original plans.

You decide that summer break means summer break and don't go to summer courses. The second you finish your last exam, you leave all notions of simultaneous and consecutive interpretation behind with your grammar manuals. Your only thought is to have fun and you do. A couple of days before the beginning of the next session, you receive bad news. You learn that since you didn't assist to the summer course, it is impossible for you to attend the planned classes of the session. To do so, you need to start over the last one and pass your classes. You bang your head into a wall as you despair that your studies will only last longer now.

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