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Madelaine <mmb1 -at- aol -dot- com (MMB1)> asks about working as a writer overseas. I
have done this. I was working for Wang back in the '80s and was at an
International Society of Wang Users (ISWU) meeting where I was introduced
to the president of a company in New Zealand that wrote software that ran
on Wang computers. He'd been loooking for a writer for a long time, and
had found none locally. We talked, and he sent me some of their stuff to
look at and critique. Well, to make it shorter, they liked what I did &
offered me a job.
It was interesting, but it was also an Elnglish speaking country, which
made it both harder and easier...
More later if you're interested.
John Garison
jgarison -at- zdi -dot- ziff -dot- com
