Funny, smart, and honest. There are no better words to describe Mrs. McCracken. At a very young age she has done more than I could ever imagine. You probably have seen her work, too. Working for major advertising companies is kind of her thing. I sat in my tiny fluorescent lit dorm room as I nervously logged in to my Skype account. When she answered I immediately sat up a little straighter and regretted my extremely casual outfit choice. She was wearing a professional blazer and was sitting in a fancy conference room. Quinn is living my dream so I immediately started firing off questions for her. You could say I was more than surprised when her first answer was “I never wanted to go into advertising”. She attended the University of Kansas and received a degree in English. This is where she had the realization “I could make a lot more money working in advertising as a writer than I could doing what I really wanted”. …show more content…
Unfortunately with no portfolio and and no previous experience she had no luck finding a job in advertising. So she took the next best thing “I took a job as a media buyer at an agency that specialized in advertising for senior living. I thought I would be able to impress the creative directors and they would eventually promote me into advertising”. It ended up being as bad as it sounded so she decided to take a small part time job writing for a local health magazine “My boss would tell me to write about things like Colitis. I was literally just writing about shit”. She had been working as a media buyer for about two years when her boss finally called her into his office. “I thought they were calling me in to promote me. When he told me I was fired I thought he was kidding”. Unfortunately, he was