by Fl\u00e1vio Silveira<\/p>\n
When I was 16 years old, I came back to Brazil after six months in the USA as an exchange student. I wanted to make some money from my (newly) fluent English, but hated the idea of being an English teacher\u2013I wanted to work alone, at home.<\/span><\/p>\n Then I read a story in the <\/span>Folha de S. Paulo<\/span><\/em> newspaper about some \u201cuncommon jobs\u201d, and \u201csubtitler\u201d was one of them. And I loved cinema and TV series.<\/span><\/p>\n It was 1996, so I picked up the phone book (yes, no internet at the time) and started calling all the video producers, distributors and other businesses I could think of.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some weeks later, someone called me back:<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 You must have a VCR or two, because they\u2019re gonna break frequently.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Ok.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Come pick up the tape near Avenida Paulista.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Ok.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Oh, and just one more question: we work only with porn movies, do you have any problem with that?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Well, it wasn’t even legal to give porn to someone under 18, but that work soon opened other doors: S\u00e3o Paulo International Film Festival, HBO Brasil, and MTV, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n From primitive computers and broken VCRs to sophisticated software and everything in the “cloud”, sixteen years later, here I am: a happy freelance linguist, and a journalist.<\/span><\/p>\n by Fl\u00e1vio Silveira When I was 16 years old, I came back to Brazil after six months in the USA as an exchange student. I wanted to make some money from my (newly) fluent English, but hated the idea of being an English teacher\u2013I wanted to work alone, at home. Then I read a story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,550],"tags":[20,551,577,38,552],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFl\u00e1vio Silveira<\/span> is a 45-year-old linguist, automotive <\/span>journalist <\/span>and subtitler <\/span>who lives in <\/span>S\u00e3o Paulo, <\/span>Brazil, with <\/span>his wife <\/span>and two kids. <\/span>He loves translating, <\/span>but doesn\u2019t like working with QAs. He works as a freelance translator for Deluxe, Iyuno and also some Brazilian newspapers and magazines. <\/span>Contact: <\/span>flaviosilveira@gmail.com<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"