dihexa

I'm 24. keep in mind I was working for free (an 'internship'). I wasn't getting paid. There is no real money in copywriting unless you are really, really good. Even then, you've got to be willing to compete with others who are also really, really good and will work for, like, $10USD/hour? All I ever wanted to do was use it as a stepping stone to get in Public Relations (it was my major within my communication degree)... but I struggled for four months just to get an interview in my city for some kind of advertising/PR/journalism/foot in the door position. But I ended up with a shitty internship position with vapid and arrogantly frustrated female coworkers for a shitty copywriting internship (free labour for them, a slightly more of a competetive edge for me. They wanted ~30 hours a week (over 3 days) in exchange for free copy and their desire to try and dominate my world. When some of them realised that I'm my own man who stands up for himself, they conspired to get me fired by putting me in "those" situations. I quit after 2 months. Like I said, I know what I like and copywriting is not it. It's ugly, REPETITIVE - as in "xyz is the leading innovators in xyz! we can provide the xyz blah blah blah." Monkey work. I'm going back to university to get a real degree in chemistry. I'm determined to find a cure for Alzheimer's/down syndrome. I research and even get some promising compounds, including Dihexa, custom synthesized.

Copywriting... did you ever feel like what you were doing was extremely repetitive? I intern'd at a talent media agency as an (unpaid) copywriter. It sucked. Worst two months of my life. Bit of office politics and power play to blame, too... the owners and all the managers - except for the nice (trilingual) PR guy and the other copywriting interns - were female. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a sexist man, it was just an interesting experience. One really vapid girl intern tried to get me 'fired', though. Like, jeeze, I'm churning out copy for you guys from 830am-5pm for you, free of charge, four days a week, and you're getting concerned this position might not be right for me because I said I was "bored"? Right.

I [n.] hate [verb+obj] copywriting [n.] Anyway, my point is: "We are the leaders innovators in the xyz region. With more than xyz years in the industry, we can provide your xyz needs quicker than [politically correct pun goes here]."