On Feb 10, 7:22 pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> John W. <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 10, 8:22?am, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I want to live in Japan for the simple fact that it is different. I'd
> > live anyplace, really. Plop me down in just about any country and I'm
> > as happy as a clam. Japan is easier simply because I speak the
> > language, know people there, more or less know how to survive, and
> > always find fascinating things to see/do. I've been trying to convince
> > the Japanese friends (MD researchers, for the most part) that I play
> > soccer with to get me a job as a lecturer on US healthcare but they're
> > all too junior to have that kind of pull. There's no way I could go
> > back to eikaiwa (too old, for one thing).
>
> Too married, for another :-)
>
Are you kidding? I'm married to a Japanese lady; the less I'm around
the better. I think the happiest times of our relationship are when
I'm travelling.

> > But I think your philosophy is the basis for many self-help books;
> > living life on your own terms is the dream of most of us, I think,
> > regardless of location.
>
> How's your IT skill-set?
>
Once upon a time it was good. I had good hardware skills (A+, Network
+) and was fairly fluent in HTML and strong in other Web-based
technologies (Flash-based stuff). Mostly I've been a writer, though;
not sure how I wound up in that, but I can learn a process fairly
easily and then write about it. Nowadays I'm mostly project managing
(process managing is probably a better term). Even the ANSI knowledge
I had two years ago rarely gets used and is slowly getting forgotten
as I guide customers through our clumsy, illogical, inefficient
process.

John W.