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Originally Posted by Boomer
Hey Chelsea,
That is a hoot. Ironically, I have said that could I do it over, it would have to be advertising. Of course, I know nothing about how it really works, but in the scenes on television, and in movies, sometimes it shows a room with a bunch of people, around a table, throwing ideas out there. Sometimes they get up and run around and gesture wildly. (I can do that.) High energy. Bouncing off each other. I have been in situations like that for other reasons and I always love it. Is advertising like in the movies? I do so love a creative energy field.
And I am always thinking, "Hey, I have an idea for an ad for that."
Believe it or not, Chels,for about a year I have had this idea for an ad for Metamucil. Yep. You got it. I said Metamucil. My idea is hip and young. Do you believe it? A hip and young ad for Metamucil. (Is it hip to say, "Hip"? I think not. Oh well.)
You know.....maybe I should head to downtown Cincinnati to those world headquarters of Procter and Gamble, known to us locals as "The Ivory Towers." And maybe I should just barge into the CEO's office and make him listen to me..........uh oh........I would be on Channel 9 news so fast. Getting hauled out in handcuffs. Calling out my new slogan for Metamucil, as they dragged me out the door.
Ohhhhhh, I digress this morning. I am kind of like a "Walter Mitty" of advertising. I went to the P&G stockholders' meeting and I sat just a few rows from the front, directly in front of the CEO's podium and a few rows back from that eBay woman who was on the board. But I was just there, being Boomer, nobody important. But little did they know, I had to try so hard to not get up and run through the place, up and down the aisles, shouting my Metamucil slogan idea to the rafters.
So advertising would have been my perfect career I think. But alas. I did not think of it. (Tony seems to think I am some kind of English major. Even though I protest all the time. I think Tony is a little paranoid about English majors. I wonder what the story is on that.)
So anyway, Chels, congrats on the perfect career choice for us ENFP types.
(And if I sound even more like a whackadoo this morning, telling these whackadoo stories, it is because I am snowed in. Almost exactly a year ago, when this weather came along, I started that "Rusty Eden" name game thing that I finally had to shoot with a silver bullet or whatever. Winter makes me crazy, crazier, craziest. Why am I still in Cincinnati?)
Boomer
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Oops! Hope "You go girl" wasn't your slogan!
Yes, honestly ad agencies are just like you see in the movies. All the brainstorming meetings, many of them carried out in outdoor cafes in good weather (hard to find in Chicago) accompanied by many pitchers of Margaritas!
The series Madmen is especially true to form, but set in a decade previous to mine. The Tom Hanks/Jackie Gleason movie hit home especially to me because at that time I was a Creative Director, while trying to care for an ailing father. I think it's called 'Nothing in Common'. The big difference was that I was extremely close to my Dad, unlike the movie. But the office atmosphere was right on.
Being on the creative side, we had a lot of freedom. If it helped you to skateboard around the office to come up with the "big idea" (we actually had a guy that used to do that) it was allowed. A great time. Office on Michigan Ave. Could dress anyway we wanted (jeans, etc,) except for client meetings. Wonderfully funny, quirky people.
My main client was Ralston Purina, so I was forever going to Checkerboard Square in St.Louis. I can see why the P & G building is called The Ivory Tower. P & G is a huge client. Your idea of storming the building might be a tricky one. But I love the visual of you being dragged out chanting the Metamusil slogan.
However, if you really love it, find out the agencies that handle P&G (I'm sure they have a few) and see if you can talk to one of the Creative Directors. Just be aware that many can be notorious thieves and will say it was their idea! Or "oh, we have something like this in the works." Come to think of it, it might be safer for you to send it to the client or P&G. They might just actually pay you for it!
Hey, if you're bored, why not start a thread with funny pictures that people can caption??? I think that would be fun.
psssssssst, I've heard about Tony's fear of English Majors. My degree is in Journalism. Don't tell him. He'll expect me to know how to spell!
