I felt an extreme frustration from just reading the piece. I can’t imagine living it at the level you have. . . To keep things in context, I’m a man. It’s not to say I can’t relate, it’s just the serpent had a slightly different head. It was still a narcissistic, self deceiving, soul sucking, power hungry bobble head. The difference? the sexism wasn’t directed towards me.

My experience in advertising has been mostly cloistered in a room by myself with as little human interaction as possible. I was the man writing the music. Writing the underscore to help save the story from complete emotional misdirection….. Or clarify, because the edit was so bad and the budget to fix it was depleted. When I had to interact it was clear how clueless many were. An absolute lack of language to express their needs for their work visually and sonically. . . But ! Could clearly work within a corporate structure as to no one would know their incompetence. A form of art I suppose.

Glad you’ve written about your experience so I could share mine.

I drive a truck now and write music for myself…. I do miss the inspiration, the money. Lol. I don’t miss the serpent bobble head.

Best

DG

p.s. You’ve listed a website which I went to… but it’s passcode protected.

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