Working as a Technical Writer in Madrid?

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Tom wondered: <<  I am wondering about the possibility of working as  
a technical writer in Madrid, writing in English rather than Spanish.>>

English being one of the main European languages of trade and  
commerce, it would surprise me greatly if there aren't many such  
opportunities. However, you should make time to investigate the  
requirements for becoming a citizen (or at least obtaining permission  
to work) in your country of choice; a year ago, I lost an interesting  
and lucrative translation client because their funding guidelines  
required them to work exclusively with EU contractors, and someone  
caught them violating that guideline by working with me. Sigh... so  
it goes.

<<... perhaps there are also Spanish companies who would require  
writing done in English (e.g. if expoerting to English-speaking  
nations).>>

Definitely. If you have access to a good library and are interested  
in working in the sciences and related lines of work, scan through  
the archives of _Scientific American_ for the past year or two. They  
periodically publish a large "special advertising section" in which  
various countries or regions of countries advertise all the cool  
science work they're doing, including business-related technology  
opportunities. I know they did one on some region of Spain during  
this period--but I don't recall whether it included Madrid. In any  
event, it should give you some interesting food for thought and lots  
of potential contacts in Spain.

<<If anyone has any experience or knowledge of the technical writing  
industry in Spain I would appreciate a reply. An initial reply can be  
to the list and if the discussion becomes very specific we can take  
it off-list.>>

For future reference, all initial replies should be on-list. You'll  
get a much wider array of responses when people start responding to  
other replies (it's called "synergy" <g>), and I'm sure you're not  
the only one interested in the topic. The discussion then becomes  
part of the archives too.

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Geoff Hart   ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca

(try geoffhart -at- mac -dot- com if you don't get a reply)

www.geoff-hart.com

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