u/Strange-Dark7657

Hi, can you become a single mom in the UK if your income is 2000 net a month?

Live in south east of england, dad lives abroad and earns well for thar country but compared to the uk it’s nothing so almost no contribution.

Sorry if my post if shocking

Hi there, I, 31 years old, was recently separated from my partner ( he works for the Nhs and his visa was not renewed so he had to go back to his home country and we are shattered). We are trying to solve the situation through a fiancé visa but…

We were recently engaged and trying for a child.

I work full time in Surrey, and I earn 2000 pounds net/months. I am a language teaching assistant. My job is very stable, and with advantages (I have a lot of holidays, I eat for free, etc…)

Of course, it would be difficult for me to raise a kid: one bedroom flat would be around 1200 ( all bills included).

My partner would give me around 400 pounds/months. The potential grandma is willing to come 6 months in a year to help me. (We’re an Asian family, that’s completely normal).
As I have holidays in October, 4 weeks in December, 3 weeks in April, this would help reducing the childcare cost.

I know that full-time working parents are eligible for 30 weekly childcare hours, and I would receive Child Benefit (around 100 a month).

I also have some savings.

So my question is: what income would I need to be able to raise a child on one income, before we get reunited with the dad?

I am trying to launch a remote freelance career as a medical translator, through courses and qualifications, but I still have to work on it!

I apologize for my English, it is not my mother tongue, I am from France.

Also, I fully understand that my situation is not good enough for a kid right now so please don’t judge me on that. I am not naive, I just want to make it work and we would definitely wait until we have the right financial set up.

Hi there, do you know a good medical translation online course for a beginner translator based in the Uk?

I graduated in languages but I don’t really know where to start.

I am translating from Spanish and Arabic into French.

Hi there,

I am 31 and I have POI. I tried to freeze my eggs but only got 9 and they told me I was going to hit menopause soon. ( amh is almost non existent).

Due to a forced separation with my fiancé ( due to the loss of his visa he has to leave the country), all our plans of motherhood just collapsed.

My question is: would it still be realistic for me to become a mom?

I earn 29 000 net per year. I guess I’d need a studio at least around 1600 bills included in Wokingham).
Comuting fees around 150 pounds/month. ( I have no car).

My job is pretty stable at least, but not salary evolution ( or just enough to cover the inflation).

The biggest thing would be childcare ( grandma wishes to come 6 months in a year from India, and I have 2 months holidays in summer as I work in a school). It would reduce the cost but childminders are crazily expensive. I know that the governement covers 30 hours per week but my colleagues say it actually covers much less ( due to holidays).

My partner says he will support me but his salary in India would be much lower and he could give around 200-300 pounds).

How rich are you supposed to be to be a parent exactly?

What could make my plan realistic? I don’t want to leave my job because I like it and it has a lot of advantages ( for ex a lot of holidays so less childcare needed, we eat for free, it is stable, etc…)

Also I have autism (please don’t judge, I understand that it is a major difficulty, and that my situation is far from ideal).

Hi there. I ( 30F) am going through a forced break up, just 2 days after been engaged.

Partner’s visa was not renewed (nhs job in the Uk, we didn’t think it could happen since it is an essential job).

Our marriage was planned in September and I feel destroyed. He is leaving to the other side of the world, and I am in deep financial shit as well ( need to find a room, to move, I have pets and all).
I can’t make a spouse visa as I don’t meet the threshold income.

We had been living together for 4 years. We had a flat. Pets.

I feel absolutely destroyed, we were planning to try for a kid in september as well…

I told my manager but she wasn’t really supportive. I wish I had had one day off but nope.
They didn’t really talked with me or offered any help.

Some colleagues were helpful, some less. One said I should not share these personal things with them, as them pitying me won’t help me.

I do know that. But they’ll know anyway at some point, and I told them in hope they’d know someone who has a room.

Now I struggle to sleep and eat and my manager made me understand she was not too happy wi to my performance. I could barely keep myself from crying for the whole week and I am in a public facing job.

I don’t know what to do. Was it too much asking for 1 day off? I don’t know when I’ll see him again as flights are around 2000 pounds ( thanks hormuz) and I am on low income.

Was it wrong to explain to colleagues? I used to love my job, but now… I feel like shit, sorry for the whining.

Hi there! I have been exploring new career paths lately and I always wanted to get into medical translation ( Arabic/English into French).

I asked for some advice on the Reddit on the TranslationStudies page. I didn’t proofread it (Oh Lord,blasphemy!).

I wrote in a rush so a few words and commas were missing, and it contained a few spelling mistakes (“ formating” instead of “formatting”).

And they all bashed me: “become a nurse, your budding English might be handy”, “your English is simply not good enough”, “your English is a mess”, “you would need a B2”, etc…

I politely explained that, having studied 2 ( bloody) Master’s Degrees in the UK and having been living here for 7 years now, I was confident that my level was above a B2.

Before entering university, I had to take the IELTS and got an 8.

My writing skills are not perfect, but I can read classics, I wrote 2 Master’s theses without anyone to help me ( and before Chat GPT existed, lol).

Also I have worked ( a tiny bit) as a translator before.

Honestly I found all of this quite upsetting… Am I insane to feel confident about my language skills? Does it make me a prick?

They were all natives and professional so they probably know what they talk about.

They pointed out the fact that my phrasing was sometimes unnatural, but why would it be problem to translate into French?

So now I don’t know what to do? Should I still do a course or not?

I took a test for a medical translation programme from English into French and got in. It was initially made for professional translators who want to specialize into medical translation.

I feel shattered…:(

Hi there, I am looking for new career ideas!

I (30F) currently work as a language assistant and I really like it, but I know that I won’t be able to become a teacher.

I have autism, no driving license so my career opportunities are limited.

I am really passionate about languages. I graduated with a Master’s Degree in Arabic at the Uni of Edinburgh, but I lost a huge lot because I worked 60 hours a week as a waitress ( yes, I know…) .

But now I study every single day-grammar,listening,writing,speaking,vocabulary,etc… I spend most of my time studying and I would like to make a career out of it.

I was hoping to maybe start a career as a medical translator but when I asked for advice on the TranslationStudies forum they unanimely told me that my English was simply not good enough to work in such a competitive field. ( they talked about my “budding English” and I found it very upsetting.:( )

I don’t think my level will improve a lot: I have been working in the UK for years, it just doesn’t seem to evolve.

And to be honest it is my problem: I speak several languages and, while I am perfectly able to comunicate, I don’t think I will ever have a “near native level”.

So my question now is: what career could I possibly consider? Is there any hope for me?

Here are my current levels:

French ( native)

Spanish ( as good/bad as my English, judge by yourself)j

English (I have no idea, it is the language I use the most in my head)

Arabic (low B2), improving slowly

Russian ( B1), improving a bit faster

Hi there, I am a 30 years old female, working full-time as a teaching assistant and I am thinking a lot on my long term goals the moment…

Basically I want, in the future, earn a bit more money, and have the opportunity to work remotely when I have kids.

I graduated with a Master’s degree in Arabic and one in Philosophy ( with research about the medical theories of an Arabic speaking physiciam in the middle age).

My mother tongue is French, and I speak fluently English and Spanish ( been living in the UK for 8 years now, graduated here).

I speak Arabic (B2, I lost a lot due to no practice during 7 years), and Russian ( B1, super keen on ot, studying every day).

My goal is to start with English, French and Spanish, and then add Arabic ( and maybe one day, Russian, who knows).

My passion in life since I was a kid is medicine.

My question is: is medical translation still worthy, with AI and all? Can I realistically become one at some point and make a living?

I have a tiny portfolio ( I passed a test for medical translation for doctors one day and kept the documents. I was trained to translation during my Master’s Degree but never actually worked.