Hello,

I started to major in business management (because I was so into languages and was told 'only languages' is a bad choice/translator marketer super competitive, etc.), but then decided to drop out, because a)I had a thyroid inflammation at the time (its okay again) b)I was less than sure, if that was what I wanted to do with my life.

So now I've been learning about SEO for a while and am about to go back to school, but I'm not sure if I should major in business again or in foreign languages.

Thus, I'm wondering:

Does being a translator help with multilingual SEO? I assume as one works only in their mother tongue, translation skills wouldn't be that important, really?

I have been told by someone else had SEW, that there was a good market for translators with a solid background in SEO. Is there any truth to this?
What would a translator with a background in SEO do and why would they need SEO skills if they do mostly translation work (I assume mostly for KW research?). Maybe somebody here works in such a role?

But most of all: Andy - how did you get into the field of SEO with a degree in languages? I assume your degree in languages doesn't have much to do with this, but you were mostly a self starter?

How did everyone else here get their SEO career started?

thx!!