After teaching English at the college level, Steve Goldstein began his writing career working in Employee Communications at the headquarters of Citbank in New York. He followed this by a stint at The Home Insurance Company, where , in time, he became VP of Corporate Communications. Switching industries, he then worked at Sanofi Pharmaceuticals and later at Aventis Pharmaceuticals, where as VP of Corporate Communications, he was in charge of speechwriting for the senior executives team and Employee Communications. Steve and his wife retired to Princeton where they are both active in community-based activities.