Michael LaRocca

I always accept connection requests. Whenever someone searches for someone on LinkedIn, matches are limited to 1st/2nd/3rd level connections plus group members. I want as many people finding me as possible. However, if one of my connections turns out to be an inveterate spammer, I’ll remove it. I’ve done that maybe a dozen times.

I used to spend at least an hour a day bicycling, but I now I spend it hiking. No SmartPhone either because that’d be cheating. 🙂

I was a purchasing manager and technical editor for an Engineering/R&D firm for eight years before moving to China in 1999 and creating MichaelEdits.com. Prior to that I was a computer programmer, military electronics specialist, hog farmer and repo man.

I spent six years teaching English in China, five years as a medical lecturer in Thailand,…[Read more]