Advertising (A Career In)
Created | Updated Mar 30, 2002
Advertising can be broadly defined as charging people money for lying about their things so that other people will pay more money for them.
Careers in advertising have long been regarded as disreputable (hence title of famous book about advertising: Don't tell my mother I work in advertising, she thinks I play piano in a brothel).
In the 1980's, when Capitalism briefly became fashionable, thousands of Oxbridge graduates filled the offices of ad agencies such as Biggles, Pinkerton and Gumboil or Fat Chas's Advertising Take-Away, and drove Porsches, snorted coke, did Lunch, and generally pontificated expensively about nothing.
If you didn't have the imagination to be a rock star, a career in Media had much of the same trappings and didn't involve years travelling round in a VW Camper waiting to be discovered and missing a lot of baths.
By the Millenium, many commentators observed that advertising was to blame for the generally low standard of everything, up to and including advertising itself.
However, most sensible advertising people had, by then, already abandoned the job to run art galleries or sweep roads anyway.
Advice to those considering a career in advertising: Take piano lessons.
Careers in advertising have long been regarded as disreputable (hence title of famous book about advertising: Don't tell my mother I work in advertising, she thinks I play piano in a brothel).
In the 1980's, when Capitalism briefly became fashionable, thousands of Oxbridge graduates filled the offices of ad agencies such as Biggles, Pinkerton and Gumboil or Fat Chas's Advertising Take-Away, and drove Porsches, snorted coke, did Lunch, and generally pontificated expensively about nothing.
If you didn't have the imagination to be a rock star, a career in Media had much of the same trappings and didn't involve years travelling round in a VW Camper waiting to be discovered and missing a lot of baths.
By the Millenium, many commentators observed that advertising was to blame for the generally low standard of everything, up to and including advertising itself.
However, most sensible advertising people had, by then, already abandoned the job to run art galleries or sweep roads anyway.
Advice to those considering a career in advertising: Take piano lessons.
