It doesn't help, either, that translation work brings out my impostor syndrome like nothing else. See, I am not officially a translator. I don't have a nifty piece of paper that I can whip out to prove to people that I studied hard and got a degree and so I am totally legit and everything, okay? Yeah. My brain is weird, what can I say?

You mean that if you had the piece of paper, you'd somehow manage to avoid the impostor syndrome? That is weird. Impostor syndrome is usually more stubborn than that (I say, while still suspecting that my thesis advisor helped me out too much, and I didn't really earn my Ph.D.)