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April 23, 2007

AC #51 Now Available

The Career Counseling Edition:

Over sushi, John & Tug take on a few Kirin beers and offer a few thoughts on gardening as creative expression (2:08) and Kurt Vonnegut (3:36) before two listeners enjoy telling us how wrong we were about a musing we had in episode #50 (7:21).

This leads to three listener comments all related to career issues:

A. Freelance vs. Full-time gig (11:05)

B. What separates a good book from a great book (16:10)

C. How long should you stay in school or at a particular job (19:12)

We put on our techno hats and finish the podcast off with DJ Prato's remix of the Bruce Campbell speech from W+K's recent Old Spice efforts.

Thanks to the Kirin, this episode earns its explicit rating. No better reason than that just to listen now.

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How much should i vary the media in my book?
are spec print ads with great ideas going to be enough, or should i include storyboards, etc too?

Hey fellas, thanks for this episode. Lately, this has extra resonance with me since I made the tough decision to leave my full-time gig (after only 10 months) and return to the turbulent world of freelancing. Long story short: it was shit. I will now embark on the journey of putting together a better book and targeting the companies I want to work with (and for) in hopes of giving my career the Sally Hogshead treatment. I know this is a subject we can talk about all day, so I was left a bit disappointed at the half-hour length of this episode. No doubt you will return.

And to add to the ad mascot subject: Chester Cheetah also made his way to the video game universe. And I recently blogged about anthropomorphic mascots at http://www.perezfox.com/2007/04/16/top-ad-mascots/ — pardon the self-plug.

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