http://www.jobster.com/at/person/show/146290?hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers http://www.jobster.com/at/assets/images/jobster/logos/rss_logo.gif http://www.jobster.com/at/person/show/146290?hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:00:15 GMT Most recently updated answers by Mary T Sheely http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/306133?answer_class=AnswerBase Hired as an ACD overseeing writing on online work, I stayed on as a senior copywriter working remotely when I moved to Seattle. Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:00:15 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/306133?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/54663?answer_class=AnswerBase I worked at HSR in the mid-90s, and I must have done something right, because they welcomed me back two years ago. I had been an advertising copywriter at another firm for about five years, and I was ready to shake things up a little. I'd been getting more interested in long copy and online work, and considered being a writer/editor focusing on online and interactive media to be my dream job. The first job I saw meeting that description on Monster was at my former place of employment! Obviously I liked them, too, or I never would have gone back. Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:22:33 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/54663?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/45826?answer_class=AnswerBase Lots of funky high fashion, but always very casual. The account people dress up a little more. Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:24:13 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/45826?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/45825?answer_class=AnswerBase We had a pool table on our floor, and one day a guy who didn't quite seem to fit--was he a client? a maintenance guy?--showed up and started taking shots. A friend and I mentioned it to three people before one guy decided to investigate. Turned out it was a confused homeless guy who just wandered in to shoot a few rounds. He was probably wondering why no one had taken his drink order yet. Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:23:38 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/45825?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/45822?answer_class=AnswerBase I was happily freelancing, but a friend contacted me about an opening. I took the job so I could write TV commercials, and boy did I! Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:21:44 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/45822?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/45802?answer_class=AnswerBase Ten minutes door to door, but that was when it was still located on the west side of downtown. It's still downtown, but on the far east side. Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:21:12 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/45802?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/154993?answer_class=AnswerBase I wrote a video about puberty. I know what you're thinking, but it was an amazing challenge to make it sensitive and interesting to fourth-graders. I spent three weeks in LA on the shoot and got to work with a director from Nickelodeon and with people who'd worked on shows like Andy Richter Controls the Universe (which makes them gods to me). I also got to ride in a trailer as we shot a scene in a car--what fun! It was a much more hard-working trip than any previous shoot I had been on, and also the most rewarding. (PS, a few months later, Howard Stern played portions of the video on his show and made fun of it. And yes, I get a lot of mileage out of that fact.) Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:54:41 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/154993?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/151344?answer_class=AnswerBase Good writing. A lot of people can't write, but they all think they can. And as it seems I hear more and more people insisting "anyone can write," I notice more and more popular websites that are popular because they are well-written. What--you think I'd actually go to dlisted.com for the pictures? Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:22:26 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/151344?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/150829?answer_class=AnswerBase Grow a very thick skin! Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:55:40 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/150829?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/151346?answer_class=AnswerBase Having a say. Knowing my clients. Seeing my work in its finished form. Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:16:55 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/151346?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/151345?answer_class=AnswerBase I don't really want to grow up. But I would like to live in a modern prefab house someday! Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:16:20 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/151345?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/151343?answer_class=AnswerBase I would love to be able to design and program for websites and interactive. I actually planned (well, in grade school I did, anyway) to be an artist, but two teachers inspired me in high school to be a writer: One was a history teacher who wrote "You are a very good writer" on a paper I finished in the hallway ten minutes before class. The other was an art teacher who was so miserable I couldn't bring myself to sign up for any more of her classes. That's probably not really what you asked... Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:13:28 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/151343?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/148250?answer_class=AnswerBase Writing horrible chamber of commerce publications promoting places I'd never been in my life, such as Hazelton, PA and Airport Area, PA (we had a lot of Pennsylvania accounts). One day in the summer the AC went out in our office and my boss, kind of a Harley-riding version of Santa Claus, took off his shirt and worked in his sleeveless undershirt until management gently suggested he not. Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:19:08 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/148250?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/148255?answer_class=AnswerBase Even though it was a non-smoking building (supposedly), the office of the guy interviewing me reeked of smoke when I walked in. When we got settled into our chairs, he proceeded to open the drawer of his desk, extract a lit cigarette, take a drag, place it back in the drawer and close it. He repeated this five or six times throughout the interview. I believe he offered me the job, and I turned it down. Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:05:22 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/148255?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/148248?answer_class=AnswerBase Abandon Mediocrity: My pockmarked life. Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:02:28 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/148248?answer_class=AnswerBase