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Career advice to the mediocre – get a job. Any job.

AUCKLAND, Sunday: Eminent adman, writer and Truth & Soul podcaster Paul Catmur continued his pro-mediocrity crusade in the Herald on Sunday business section yesterday.

This time he recalls (with horror and, later, satisfaction) his first gig – at Young & Rubicam London, “the advertising equivalent of cold porridge”.


“Y&R was a big, old, US-owned agency in a soulless ex-factory in London.”


“My art director and I, for reasons of youthful arrogance, reckoned we were among the better teams at the School of Commercial Arts – and therefore would be sent to one of the sexier agencies.

“When the internships were announced we had a shock. Y&R was a big, old, US-owned agency in a soulless ex-factory in London.


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