Funny, smart, and honest. There are no better words to describe Mrs. McCracken. At a 31 years old, 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. Mrs. McCracken 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 said completely unfazed. She attended the University of Kansas and received a degree in English. …show more content…
Even though she was down and discouraged she kept fighting for her dream. Finally, she landed a job writing female humor greeting cards for American Greetings. “I was allowed to write about shopping, getting fat, getting old, chocolate, wine, and the incompetence of men. The company thought women probably wouldn’t find anything else funny” her eyes brow furrowed and she is shaking her head in a mocking manner. A lot of her material would be shot down for being too raunchy or inappropriate. “I thought it was hilarious. So I made a Twitter account and dumped everything that got rejected there” and she wasn’t the only one who found it funny. She quickly got a huge following of 5.3 thousand followers and tons of fans. While checking her email she received a message from one her followers “He was the Executive Creative Director for Barkley, the largest advertising agency in the United States, he hired me to be a junior writer for the most high profile comedy account at the time, Sonic, based on nothing but my Twitter feed” she explained looking down towards the floor and quite bashfully. He took a huge risk on