Curently, translation major is extremly hot for the postgraduate.  Maybe  this is for the sake of the promising job-hunting or the high pay.

Though cute it looks, bitter to achieve. To be a translator, it is a huge and trifiled journey,  persistance,  patience, strong-hearted, multi-knowlede, sophisticated experiences are the basic factors for a qualified translator.  Resistance to the luration, focus on the staff,  polish it again and again, not sumbit it until you can't make any improvement. Maybe  sometime you have to stay up for a perfect word; maybe you are blocked for days; maybe your mind spout.

Translation, sometimes, just like art, and you, are the artist. In another word, being a top artist, you have to beyond lots of obstacles, such as poorness, misunderstanding, self-dount etc. If you are afriad of these, translation is not a good choice for you. If these do not mean too much for you, congratulations, you are the right man for this job. Once decided, just persist in it, one day you can see the flower is booming for you.

Just love it and persist.