Was it worth it after all?

I arrived back in Australia earlier this week and, while I have been busy, I've done next to no work at all.

With that in mind, I thought I'd post about whether or not I thought the fellowship at WIPO was worthwhile.

In a word, yes. Professionally, I feel that I got a lot out of it. I learnt a lot about translating in general and about translating for WIPO specifically. I got some experience in translating in-house, which will help me decide if I want to go for a similar position somewhere else. I made some contacts with other translators who are at similar stages in their careers to me (actually this could probably count as a personal benefit as well). And on top of all that, it'll look good on my resume.

As for personal benefits, I got to go to Europe, which was fantastic.

(I'm going to end this post here because it has been inordinately difficult to write and one of the things I learnt was to cut my losses)