It really does bother me that agencies don't want to train people on the job anymore. I think it makes a huge impact on who can get into the field. Journalism has the same problem when I was working there. The only people who could take internships were people from families that made enough money to subsidize the experience. It excludes anyone from middle or lower class backgrounds, and that's a problem.

Last Friday while I was eating lunch I started thinking about the people who post weird exploitative stories that usually involve a child teaching them some lesson. I usually find these posts cringe-y and felt like calling them out.

Apparently it resonated and got over 13k views.

Yesterday I was inspired by my friends Bre Fern and Laura Canzono who run @BreakingAd_ on Instagram. They posted about Imposture Syndrome, which was something I could really relate to, but it made me think about what causes it. I ended up writing my own post about it on LinkedIn. I use two advertising legends as examples and one of them even left a comment.

In college I dual majored in photojournalism and sociology. Although my focus was on the photo part of journalism, I still had to take a large number of writing classes. My favorite was editorial writing with Conrad Fink.

Fink literally wrote the book on editorial writing as his book was used in college courses all around the country. It was an honor to have him as a teacher and I believe my time in his class allowed me to function as a copywriter as needed even though I'm primarily an art director.

Occasionally I still get the itch to put the pen to paper (or fingers to keyboards) because let's face it, I'm opinionated as all get-out.

Last night I was reflecting on my childhood, how the city I grew up in had an anti-billboard ordinance and how that shaped my perception of advertising. The end result was this.