Not Evident Evident
Self- Awareness
P1: I told them this is not the right job for me. I actually cannot do this, but I took the job.
P1: I'm a technical interpreter, I work with Deaf-blind people. Those are my avenues. P2: You are free to give me feedback, and I hope that I'm free to give you feedback, and this is a safe place, and It's going to stay between the two of us. P2: Able to accept feedback that is
constructive in a way that you can use that effectively to polish your work.
P4: I don't have an ego when it comes to my work
P4: I know my personality is direct and strong even in my regular life.
P4: Being comfortable with who you are or where you're at a meaning within your own skill set in your environment. Self-
Regulation
P2: making sure that the consumers are getting exactly what they need and want from the scenario.
P2: So that was a demand and a situation that I was prepared for going into it. P2: I had to become a little bit more proactive about my role and kind of doing a little bit of additional work ahead of an assignment to make sure that I wasn't put in that kind of position again.
P4: She was difficult to understand, but like a good interpreter, I thought it was me at first. Then I realized it was her so I had to do a lot of repairing when I got back up there.
P4: It is at those moments where I realize I have to monitor myself and I am doing a disservice. If I take a good break, it is like a new job. Be mindful, it is tempting, the work is there. But don’t burn yourself out, it will be hard to come back to it. You will do yourself a disservice.
P5: We had a great teaming experience after that, but the beginning was pretty rough and I was disappointed in what I saw.
P5: Definitely knowing your limits is something that I think helps with effective teaming.
P5: But I get when I called ‘zing moments’ where I'm like “okay this is why I do what I do.”
P5: I was definitely doggy paddling my way through that phone call. I had my team with me in 30 seconds as soon as this was happening.
Empathy P1: She and I got in a little tiff about that. I will never work with that interpreter ever again because I had such a bad taste in my mouth. P1: You don’t care about the profession because you clearly don’t value it, or else you would have taken the test, you would have studied to become an interpreter.
P3: I appreciated how she communicated with me, we found things we had in common and how we worked together seamlessly.
P3: That's just the framework. Time, I think she came from a different time where that's what interpreters did. They were helpers.
P3: Talking to someone how you would want them to talk to you and assuming the best. Assuming they are just unaware of the small thing.
P3: And it was a-- still to this day I can't even. I still cry. It hurts my heart.
P4: But everyone does their fair share. So if you think about it in weight, if the most you can carry is 20 pounds, then you carry 20 pounds. If I can carry 50 then I carry 50 because I can.
P4: When a Deaf person gets their due as if they were hearing - meaning there is no longer that extra layer/barrier that they went through the interpreter.
P5: I would to say mutual respect to begin with is really a big deal - if you go in not respecting each other it can really go downhill fast.
Internal Motivation
P1: We always size ourselves up to everybody.
P1: Being able to learn from others. P1: I typically send prep and I call and voice prep.
P2: I really love my job. And I really love my community. And I really love the people that I work with. And it's a good feeling.
P4: They open my brain in a way that I only get when I work with a Deaf interpreter.
P5: My eyes were open to so many nuances of the language that only a native could do.
P4: I just have to check because the community is valuable to me.
P5: I was ready to learn, I wanted to learn from her.
Social Skills
P1: I know what we're talking about here. So don't try to feed me stuff when this is my house.
P2: They go through a hazing process. And that can be a new interpreter as in someone very seasoned who's coming from just a different place or a novice
interpreter who has come through the local ITP and is now trying to gain mentoring experiences. P2: I tend to read a lot into other people without necessarily know what their intent is. And it's where I've done one job with somebody again thought, "Oh, God, they hated."
P3: I learned how to communicate with her, where if I asked her something, or I brought up something, I learned how to say it where she wouldn't be defensive. P3: I think what's made some of my experiences effective with teaming was really clear communication.
P4: So every day I am happy to go to work. But when I get to go to work with my friends, they pay me to get to hang out with people I like.
P5: We had an awesome teaming dynamic that just made me feel like I would love to team with this person every day of the week if I could because it was that awesome.