-: My degree was in creative writing.
And so I never,
I didn't even know, actually, at the time,
that I could kind of segue that
into a advertising job.
But over the years, I had started a couple blogs
that kind of became popular,
and somebody at one point told me,
that's content marketing.
And I was like, oh.
So from there, I learned how well,
learning to have written poetry,
and short fiction, and everything,
translates to writing a headline for an ad,
or a TV commercial for a company.
But I wouldn't loved, you know--
Once I got into advertising,
then I had to learn all of the other stuff
that goes behind it.
The numbers and the strategy,
and even the difference between writing
a great line of poetry and writing
a great headline for an ad.
So I think to prepare yourself,
if you kind of get an idea of the trajectory
that you wanna use a writing degree for,
start reading books in that industry.
So if somebody would've told me that about,
that I was gonna fall in love with advertising,
and get into that,
I would've probably read some of the classic
advertising books a lot, literally.
You know, like Oglivy,
and some of the huge big name ad agency guys.