Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.
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Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.
I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.
Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.
I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.
I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.
I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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