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Some Words About Interpreting

It is high time to dethrone “plastics” as the most famous one-word career tip in history

By Brent Bowers, New York Times, August 8, 2007

On the 40th anniversary of the release of “The Graduate,” in which Dustin Hoffman puzzled over that advice, I would urge fledgling entrepreneurs to consider one of the most lucrative hidden-in-plain-sight niches of the global economy.

Interpreters.

O.K., that may not have quite the same ring, but think about it. While everybody else is talking about booming international markets for information technology, banking, jetliners and fast-food restaurants, who are the mechanics who keep the machinery of world trade humming?

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