Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I worked for the recreation and parks department for a year.
I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.
My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths.
I'm a kid from the small Illinois town of Batavia, who grew up on the Chicago Cubs and made sports his life's work, although there's never been a day where it actually seemed like work.
I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
In 1975, I quit my tenure, and we moved from Ann Arbor to New Hampshire. It was daunting to pay for groceries and the mortgage by freelance writing - but it worked, and I loved doing it.
I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track record.
I started my business with my best friend from high school.
I used to run record companies, and I went to the advertising business at 29 years old.
A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.