congrats! I know I told you not to take it but — yikes– the person posting under me sort of made me think twice about my “great” advice. I’m notoriously unrealistic/stupidly not empathetic when it comes to money. Sorry bout that.
But I’m glad you see yourself striking out on your own some day — people DO make it work, right?
Pheobe

Bands, booze, biking … Event planner!
You would be awesome as this! I had an internship doing this and it was a blast (but didn’t really suit me in the end because I am quite shy and introverted).

You should be really proud of not taking any money from them for years and not having debt.

I TRY to live on my own earnings as well but I admit that I rarely accomplish this. I’m really very lucky, but I shouldn’t take it for granted.
Whoever that was that posted underneath me gave me a smack-down I suppose I deserved!
I hope you don’t have to start working a lot soon — I still want to live vicariously through your parties, pics and girl-about-townness!

Nowhere have I said I deemed myself “seasoned”. I was not working today, 8:45 is early for me on a day that I can technically sleep in. When do you wake up on a weekend?
N00b is my way of trying to use netspeak in a cheeky way, I’m not calling others out for having “trust funds” and “no experience” as you are. I am not being “entitled” when I say I DO have work experience, it’s simply a fact any employer can see clearly on my resumé. I am not a new grad nor new to the ad industry. I’m proud of having worked my way to a point where I was enabled to give direction to others, if you are trying to humble me by suggesting I settle and regress in position just to ‘pay my dues’ then I would question your career advice.

Good for you, Sass! I hope this new job will lead you to where you want to be.

P.S. You need to tell me how you got to where you are one day. How did you get into ad sales? How did you move up?

Lindsay: Thanks for the comment, Lindsay. Really brightened up my day!
Carmen: We’ll see, it can only go up form here right? I landed the job through a friend right out of college and just worked my butt off, promoted within a year.
Scott: It’s a change, definitely. Though I’ll have to give it some time before I make up my mind. Yes, you go find yerself a great job so Princess can have more cooking sets!

I think the word n00b is funny and quite descriptive. In my firm (law) we call them “baby lawyers”. I like newbs or noobs or n00bs way better. And yeah there are some advantages at small firms, like direct client contact.

You hit the nail on the head when you said you worked your butt off. Thats the key. Work hard and thou shall be rewarded. Its simple, but amazing how many folks don’t want to.

Good luck.

Much love right back at you, and big congrats on both the new job and the even newer interview.