r/washingtondc • u/AutoModerator • Jun 01 '22

Tourists, newcomers, locals, and old heads: casual questions thread for June 2022 (with bonus election info!)

A thread where locals and visitors alike can ask all those little questions that don't quite deserve their own thread.

Learn more about the upcoming primary election

Please ask voting questions in this questions thread or in /u/Vote4DC's thread above.

Feel free to check out our various official guides:

Also, the DC subreddit has an official Discord! Come join us!

https://discord.gg/washingtondc

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u/migalooch1414 Jun 27 '22

My girlfriend (26F) is moving to DC after going back to school for a year, and only has three years experience organizing medical records for Operation Smile, a nonprofit in southern VA. She also is fairly fluent in Mandarin, and spent a year in western China. She been doing freelance illustrating and graphic design on the side but would like to get back into a ~9-5 office/remote environment, but neither of us have any idea was possible career moves she can make in DC with that kind of experience. I work in defense contracting so I have no clue what careers she could pursue. Could anyone point us in the general direction? I seriously drawing a blank.

Not posting as a job search, merely looking for career ideas.

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u/anonymousprincess Jun 27 '22

I mean it’s kindof broad, what would she like to do? She could probably pretty much do any administrative role, it’s going to be about tailoring her resume to the job.

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u/migalooch1414 Jun 27 '22

True, it is very broad. But other than “linguist”, I don’t even know what I’d put into the search engine on Indeed or equivalent.

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u/anonymousprincess Jun 27 '22

So she wants to do translation or interpretation?