<p>Which are the top jobs for multilinguals?
Who is paid more?</p>
<p>An engineer who speaks 7 languages?
A doctor...?
A pilot...?
A diplomat...?
An investment banker...?</p>
<p>I simply would like to know which areas/jobs/careers usually give multilingualism a major importance and also more advantages.</p>
<p>Thankx</p>
<p>I don't know about many of these but I doubt a doctor ( unless he's working in something like doctors without borders) would really need that many languages. Both my parents are doctors and they have managed to work with only english and spanish.</p>
<p>business as the world get more and more global.</p>
<p>NSA Specialist in non-western languages=$$$$$$</p>
<p>Uh, a translator?</p>
<p>A girl I know of majored in a language (French I believe). She's now working at the UN as translator. (Answered my question as to what you can do with language major!)</p>
<p>Oh, and a language teacher.</p>
<p>Translatorship/interpreting; it usually means specializing in one language, and the communication between that and usually a few other languages.
As far as I know, one can't translate seven languages contemporarily :P
But one can teach, indeed. I might consider that, too.</p>
<p>Anyway, I don't mean necessarily majoring in languages; simply: what jobs from any field pay people more for the number of languages they know?
(or better: which careers deem languages as a potential accessory?)</p>
<p>As for the doctor, I think you're right. :)</p>
<p>NSA specialist. Hmmm... Could be interesting. What do you mean by non-western? Tagalog, Indonesian, Bahasa, etc.? Cause as far as I know Chinese, Arab and Russian are quite "western" today with so many people speaking them with ease...</p>
<p>Business. Could international finance and investment banking belong to this category?</p>
<p>I've known two businessmen ( both ended up teaching at my school for like a year. they wanted a different experience, living in a small country and teaching at a school). They were both from the USA. One had worked in finance ( I believe in a couple of mutuaol funds) and the other had been in marketing. They had been around the wolrd ( Japan, germany, italy, and now costa rica). They constantly told us how important it was to know many languages and udnerstand different cultures. So I guess to a certain extent languages can play a significant role in business.</p>
<p>I agree. Especially globalization creates many opportunities for businesses when collaborating with other countries.
I also believe that marketers are the parts of a business that communicate most with the rest of the world, hence it is important for them to know languages.</p>
<p>What do you think about languages in international relations?
The fact is: I don't know of any good job within this field which is not being a diplomat. And I'm somehow not very keen on representing a sole country...</p>
<p>Translators exist on every block. It's not that special unless you are working for a big orginzation, like the UN or something.</p>