The study in this paper focused on the relations between life stressors (during translator pre-service period, T1), the state of burnout (during the start of students' first year as a translation apprentice/intern, T2), and career optimism (toward the end of that year, T3). The immediate impact of conventional or routine troubles on the participants' confidence in translation as a career was not observed. However, an immediate negative impact was noted in the case of an absence of social help. Findings include those suggesting that both life stress indicators were concerning extreme emotional fatigue or weariness, which brought about diminishing positive thinking and attitudes to the profession of translation by the end of the first year. Participants of this study were students in the pre-service year in a translation education program at a university in Iran.