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i couldn't figure out how to reply to the question since i read it directly on your tumblr, not my dash, but this is in reply to you/okibabeestell! i live in the east bay and commute fairly often to san francisco for school. my mother is a nurse and the demand for bilingual workers in her field -- spanish, tagalog and chinese particularly -- is fairly high. according to my friends in other parts of california, the south bay has a large korean and korean-american population, while we in the bay area have larger japanese/chinese ones. another thing i want to note is that for my mother, and other nurses she works with, to be considered officially employed as a bilingual, there's an exam they have to pass (though i don't really know the details). my mom speaks fluent spanish, but has yet to take the exam, but she's said before that being officially employed as a bilingual would give her a raise.
for a while i wanted to become a translator because i pick up languages very easily, and when i researched that a while back, i figured out that getting a job focused on your bilingual/trilingualism (like translating) is much harder than getting a job that you can attach your bilingualism to as a "bonus" (like my mother and the other nurses she works with). so hopefully that helps a little! if not i'm sorry for the long question in your ask box :(
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