(奥にいるのが私です）前職の日英会議同時通訳の仕事は、大学時代からやっていたので、かなりの長い年月やっていたことになります。医学系、IT、知財特に音楽著作権が最終的に一番仕事として多かったです。全部でおそらく25カ国で会議の同時通訳をしました。といっても、アメリカとフランスが中心で、他の国はだいたいそれぞれ1，2回しか行っていないというように、かなり偏ってはいます。毎日資料を読んで準備をして、その日の仕事をこなすのが精一杯でしたが、いろいろな業界の慣習や、独特なルールを知ることができました。またそのときにできた人脈が今の自分の財産にもなっているなと、特に独立してから感じることが多い今日この頃です。
（I am in the back of this pic.)I had worked as a simultaneous conference interpreter for quite some time ever since I was still in university. Most of the conferences I did my work were in the area of medicine, IT, intellectual property, especially music copyrights. I worked in about 25 countries, but most of the time those conferences are held in U.S. and France (because confederation of music copyrights organizations had its headquarters in Paris) and other countries like South Africa, India and so on I have only gone once or twice. I was extremely busy in those days, preparing for the conference reading tons of documents and tried to do my best each day. It was very hard to do the best possible performance in every occasion. Some speakers speak so fast, some inaudible. But I learned a lot, especially regarding special terminology, special rules, and customs in those specific areas. I made many friends who are my treasure in life both in private and in business.
