initiation
Friend: Hey, it’s almost 2am. Don’t you have work tommorow?
Jason: Erm .. I’m at work
Such is the nature of the advertising industry. It’s not too bad when you somewhat feel some responsibility for the project and hope it goes well. After all, this project is quite big. All I can say at the moment is that it’s some government project. Pfft … as though it’s some super secret project ^_^
So the next day my boss asked me if I could attend a meeting at the government agency. To which I thought I could attend, so I jumped out of bed and to the bathroom. Then I woke up sitting in the toilet with 2 missed calls on my phone. Oh man, I think I passed out in the toilet! (This is the second time in my life that I passed out in the toilet. The first time was when I blew my nose too hard.Don’t ask.)
Fortunately, SuperBen went to the meeting and covered for me and Bonk.
I remember my boss telling me that when I’m in this line of work, there will be one project that would break me. Then I would get the ‘advertising cut’ (points to arm). After that point, I would have been “initiated”. Looks like this might be it.
I was in a telecine studio at 2am when I was an intern for Lowe & Partners some years back. We later adjourned to a ‘tai chow’ for some sar hor fun.
It was kind of fun, considering not too long before that, my mother would kill me if I came sneaking in at that hour of the day.
Now that I’m ten thousand kilometres away and I can do what I like, I hardly ever go out at all. How ironic.
Anyways, here’s a good article by AIGA about paying your dues.
by the way. that day i went home at 5am.
if i had a strong respiratory system and a sleeping bag,i’d consider sleeping over. i have allergic rhinitis, so I don’t really sleep there.
works tough, but really fun.