A Few Minutes In The Life Of A Sign Language Interpreter: In Class With Snooki

I may be at risk for looking like I have an "All Snooki, all the time" blog because of this post and now this video, but really, almost all the posts will be Snooki-free.

When I noticed that the Xtranormal site, where I make the interpreting videos, had new Jersey Shore characters, I couldn't help myself. So here's sort of a Snooki book/day job mashup: what would happen if I got to work and heard the dreaded words, "Guest speaker Snooki"?

A Few Minutes In The Life Of A Sign Language Interpreter

When I'm not at home writing on the computer I'm often out working the day job (and sometimes night job) as a sign language interpreter.

One thing I love about the job is that I go to different places every day. Some interpreters like a consistent schedule and do work primarily in one location, but I like a lot of variety.

These are videos I made about some of the funny questions we interpreters get and the responses we wish we could give. If these scenarios are exaggerated, it's not by much.

Thankfully I haven't met anyone quite this bad (most professors and teachers I've met have been really accomodating), but this is the video people have enjoyed the most, whether they work in the interpreting field or not.

I had four videos on here and things kept getting messy with videos overlapping with text and such, so I've put "The Job Interview" and "The Medical Appointment" videos into separate posts so I wouldn't have to keep fixing it.

Any weird questions people ask you about your day job? Ones that make you fight the little sarcastic voice who wants to answer for you?

A Few Minutes In The Life Of A Sign Language Interpreter: The Job Interview

The latest video I made in the "Few Minutes In the Life Of a Sign Language Interpreter" videos.

An interpreter wishes he could escape the pre-interview questions:

Others in the series are "The Classroom" and "The Medical Appointment."

A Few Minutes In The Life Of A Sign Language Interpreter: The Medical Appointment

These are the first two videos I made in the "Few Minutes In the Life Of a Sign Language Interpreter" series. These have the same script, but I remade it when I realized the program offered a hospital scene I'd overlooked. Even though I'd used a police station as a stand-in for a clinic's reception desk, a lot of people like the original better. Probably because of the awkwardness in the second one, with the patient lying right there in front of them. But I kind of like  that.

If you enjoy these videos, you can see the others I've made so far, "The Classroom" and "The Job Interview."