Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rubicam, 85. enterprising co-founder and former chairman of Young & Rubicam, the nation's largest ad agency; in Scottsdale. Ariz. Kept waiting nine days in the outer office of a Philadelphia firm where he looked for his first advertising job, Rubicam wrote a scathing letter that launched his career. Always a forceful writer, he ceaselessly sought fresh, strong ad copy when he formed his own agency with John Orr Young. He also introduced to advertising the concept of market research when he hired a then unknown George Gallup to conduct consumer polls...
...many of those who stop out, the year (or years) off can prove more arduous than college itself. Stanford Senior Doug Patt, a campus graybeard at 28, has twice interrupted his college career to "see how life is out there in the streets." What he saw, in such jobs as that of supervisor at an Alaska salmon cannery, persuaded him to return for his degree last fall, almost a decade after he entered college. Rice University Senior Charles Lansdell, another 28-year-old, who is graduating this spring, spent three years as a clerk at the First City National Bank...
...stop out regret the decision, and most feel that the experience helps clarify their career aims. "The year away was very much worth it," says Johns Hopkins Junior Sue Matesic, 22, who worked with a Bible study group. "Now I am sure of what I want to do." She returned to school persuaded that she could best put her religious beliefs into practice in a career in politics. Princeton Junior Steven Hayishi, 20, took a job as a hospital orderly for ten months; he came back convinced that medicine was his vocation...
...recording artists, also claims to have acquired a business education on his own. Touring with Blues Singer Sunnyland Slim, he recalls, taught him about "money, Cadillacs, how to handle myself." When he came back to college, it was with a pragmatic sense of how to go about the career he had chosen: film production. Says Patt: "I learned in the street that if you want something...
...meantime, he presses ahead on what is surely the toughest chore of his career: using the Federal Reserve to slow the economy gradually without dipping it into recession. As Oklahoma-born Miller, who is part Indian, puts it, "We want to go through this narrow pass to the wide open space on the other side without an arrow touching...