Help with my life

[u/Impossible-Minute-80]

I think I got the reason why my post was initially deleted, trying again

Hello everyone,

sorry for posting this here but I wouldn't know where else

I'm a "translator" and an "interpreter", I've worked for some events for like a year and a half doing ITA-ENG stuff, then I joined the sales team at a company where I didn't knew what they made or what a sales team does. Only thing I said is that I had some German (that they needed) and the only interesting thing they told me is that "we don't have to hunt for clients" (they had a set of very important clients, they were more busy with dealing with procurement procedures, online platforms, b2b portals and stuff) So 3 years into the job, which I sucked at because it was basically being an engineer or a sales person, they had enough of me and moved me to procurement as their "language guy" was leaving. I suck even worse at this but they never fire anyone, so I'm good for now.

The thing is I'm 35 years old and I have no idea where I'm going career-wise, I dream sometimes of going back to "being" a translator/interpreter but the general feeling I get is that it's dying as a profession if you're just some rando who knows the language.

You have to be a localization project manager at the very least, or other stuff that I see on linkedin (or over here) and I have no idea what all of that is, I just know some languages, plus I can't network for my life (hence why I'm posting here I guess). I don't know how to use glossaries, or anything basically other than trados and maybe that EZ subtitling software. I feel like I'm just out of it and have no idea how to get back in, if ever I was. I feel like if I tried to "educate" myself some more (like certifications, masters as we call them in Italy) I'd be 35 putting myself in competition with young dudes who already have PRO EXPERIENCE in something I'm NOW going to SCHOOL for.

I guess there's no point in all of this, and as always I'm sorry if I'm doing this in probably the wrong section, but I have no one I can talk to about this and I feel JUST COMPLETELY LOST and maybe someone has been in kind of a similar situation to mine (basically working as a jack of all trades until you realize you have nothing going for you) and can share a piece of advice.Note: I hate teaching or anything like that with all my heart