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I used to do promo work, where you would be paid not very much to stand in the street for a very long time endorsing a product that you'd either A, never heard of, or B, didn't like.

— Chris Geere

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I write for a lot of places, so I'm on a lot of promo lists.

— John Darnielle

During holiday parties when people used to ask me what I did for a living, I would tell them I sold resort timeshares. That was an effective conversational nonstarter, until I met someone that actually did sell resort timeshares.

— Dean Karnazes

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.

— Spike Lee

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

— Dee Dee Warwick

When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn't after their money.

— Bjork

I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed veterans. I was making 150 bucks a week and it was horrible.

— Big Sean

I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.

— Renny Harlin

✗Opposing Perspectives

I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of 'Private Eye' and a latte.

— Rachel Johnson

If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an advertisement for anything other than the work itself and for the people it's about - no 'Coca-Cola presents.'

— JR

The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your product on their person or showing it around somewhere and not only that but they're paying for it.

— Majel Barrett