[stop]

A friend of mine tried it and gave me the impression that, because you are competing with a worldwide remote workforce for work that does not require an on-site presence, translation work is extremely hard to come by, unless you have exceptional language skills.

[jdietrich]

Exceptional language skills or specific domain knowledge. For many languages, it is incredibly difficult to find skilled translators with sufficient knowledge to make sense of technical, legal and medical documents.

[petervandijck]

You have to be good, yes. I think once you're good and you are also good at finding clients, you should be able to do well. Haven't done it myself though.