First of all, sorry for not seeing the message earlier. To be honest getting into the industry involved luck and meeting the right people at the same time. While I can't say that all of my experience translating (scanlating) and having something to show for myself didn't help, the opportunity coming at all was a blessing that I happened to grasp thanks to the kindness of others and managed to turn it into a career. What I recommend is to translate, even if isn't quite official, keep translating. Keep trying to meet new people, gaining experience, and a chance will come at some point. At least for me it took time, a lot of work, and much effort on my part to keep improving myself, which is a process I don't think will ever end. I know it might sound a little bit disingenuous to tell people to just keep at it, but the only way I've known was to do the thing and hope that the reward for a good job is more work coming my way. I hope my answer wasn't completely useless.