I’m over sixty years old, have left nothing un-chased or unloved. I continue to pursue a career in advertising, marketing, branding, social media — call it whatever makes you feel good — and make a healthy living doing so.
No one promised me that I could be a rock star, do anything I set my mind to or was somehow entitled to huge success merely because I was born. I didn’t always win ribbons, trophies, awards, honors or gold stars — sometimes I lost, stumbled, failed, fell on my face.
I always got up, dusted myself off, started again and gladly paid my dues along the way. I’ve never been afraid of hard work, assumed the world owed me a living, turned my back on education or on-the-job training and never put a title on my business card.
Long before Steve Jobs made the phrase popular, I knew that if I found something I absolutely loved to do I would never work a day in my life.
Rick Clark is a 40+ year veteran of the advertising community, a planner, strategist, writer, photographer, designer and can be found at DrDeadline.Com or on Twitter here.
