international marketing

People who do marketing, like me (I've done it in three countries now for international and national markets). But I'm not going to write you a whole textbook covering all that you could possibly want to know so if you have specific questions I'll try to answer those.

Ok, I actually do have some specific questions and it would be great if could could answer them for me:
1. What did you study in college to become an international marketing manager?
2.Did you have a lot of travel experience before you started your job? If so, could you possibly list some countries?
3. How many languages do you speak?
4. How does your job influence your private life?
5. What do you like most?least about your job?
6. Was ist easy to find a job after college?
7. How long do you have to work before you can retire?
Thank you some much, I really appreciate your help!

I'm not sure how this helps you, and I'm a very atypical candidate to interview but for what it is worth:



I didn't study in college to become a marketing manager (see? this may be an atypical profile for you).



Yes. I'd lived in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Macao, Brazil and some others I can't remember.



I speak 3 fluently (English, Spanish and Portuguese), and 1 semi-lost (Japanese, forgot most of it as I haven't used it since I was 9) and I can understand most Romance languages in writing.



Not at all.



I work with people who are very good at what they do.



I only briefly attended college (to take a Psychology course for one semester) after I was already working in marketing but my job was keeping me too busy to continue and a degree wasn't going to improve my marketability by then by much due to my job experience being strong enough by then for the lack of education not to be a gaping hole in my resume.



I am 29, and am not thinking about retirement yet. I really don't want to retire if I can help it.