Nov 22, 2009

twenty years on [life is too short mk ii]

A week ago today it occurred to me, that date, the 15th November marked the twenty-year anniversary of me starting my first “real job” out of college i.e. as a junior copywriter for Leo Burnett, the big ad agency in Chicago.

It’s been a hell of a trip since then. Glad I ended up where I did; though damn, I wish it hadn’t taken me so frickin’ long.

Every day that I’m alive, the cartoon above gets truer and truer and truer…

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