From my memoir: The Edges of my Life.
By Andrew Leslie Philips © 1985
Chapter 1
Leaving Home.
Adverting was not my first career choice. I’d wanted to be a traveler and a journalist. But I couldn’t get a job in journalism because I didn’t have the credential, the university degree, so advertising was my next, it was creative and better paid than journalism but I never got to the “better paid part”.
I spent five years in the ad business learning about copywriting and media and printing and design and finally I was an account executive selling the American dream that had become Australia’s.
