I didn’t want to be a lawyer.

So I went into advertising.

As an account executive.

For eight years.

Then I became a writer.

My first book was terrible.

So was my first job.

But my book got better.

So did the jobs.

I started freelancing.

I did that for seven years straight.

I worked all over the country on every kind of account imaginable.

Even caskets.

It was fun.

Profitable.

Then I got married.

So I got a full-time gig.

I helped open and run an office for Arnold in Los Angeles.

I got to say, “Creative Director” a lot.

We built an agency from scratch.

Including the furniture.

It was the hardest job I ever had.

It was the best job I ever had.

Then Arnold lost VW.

I lost a job.

I started freelancing again.

Helped lead a couple of winning pitches.

Did a campaign that got me my next job.

But it wasn’t, as they say, “a good fit.”

So I moved back to freelancing ‘till something much, much better came along.

I’m now CD at Pereira & O’Dell, a remarkably hot new shop in San Francisco.

We do great work.

We throw some awesome parties.

You should come by some time.

Ask for me.

www.notthatjamesbrown.com

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