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On 4/19/14, 7:57 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/19/2014 7:27 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 4/18/14, 11:18 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 21:15:52 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 4/18/14, 8:57 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

What working experience do you have ... meaning employment ... where
*you* were were subject to the king boss and had to take whatever the
job dished out? Ever? I suspect zero.

Your suspicions would add up to...zero.

Every story you have told here was about your jobs where you made
unbelievable money doing exactly what you loved.
You boss always fell at your feet in awe.

As they say on Law and Order, "were you lying then or are you lying
now"?

Yeah, my first full-time newspaper job paid me $100 a week. Yipperdoo.
The Associated Press "recruited" me out of that job by doubling that
salary, and my first ad/pr agency job in Detroit tripled the AP salary.
All chump change jobs, but I did get along with my various bosses. I was
recruited out of the Detroit job by the National Education Association.

In 1971, I think it was, I was hired by a big DC ad/pr agency for a
grand a week, decent pay for a young man in those days. Stayed there for
three years, then was hired by another DC ad/pr agency for another pay
spike, but I don't remember what it was. The second agency was a lot of
fun...it was much more of a "retail" agency with lots of local TV and
radio advertising.

In 1977, I think, the NEA asked me if I wanted to be a contract
consultant to manage some of its national advertising business so I left
the agency. Shortly thereafter, I picked up two other international
unions as clients, and then I got a contract to produce TV ads for the
AFL-CIO building trades department and a national veterans organization.

I did ok on the payrolls of others, once my career got going, but much
better financially running my own little ad/pr shop.

Was your own little ad/pr shop unionized?

Actually, yes.