I was that mystery competition winner. I saw a series of potential art directors to work with me, but I was really too green to decide (I was still at college when I won). It was suggested that I team up with this guy who came second that I’d met at a PR event for the competition winners. So I agreed and that’s how Neil got his first job. We were shoved in a meeting room with no daylight as a makeshift office and tried to make it work. But because we were both inexperienced and a bit thrown together, we felt under pressure (when there was probably none). Eventually, I got a job offer from JWT Manchester and – having been at college up there – I made the fatal mistake of going back. So Neil and I ended up having very different careers. You live and learn. But you don’t get to have his track record without serious talent. Good luck to him.
I was that mystery competition winner. I saw a series of potential art directors to work with me, but I was really too green to decide (I was still at college when I won). It was suggested that I team up with this guy who came second that I’d met at a PR event for the competition winners. So I agreed and that’s how Neil got his first job. We were shoved in a meeting room with no daylight as a makeshift office and tried to make it work. But because we were both inexperienced and a bit thrown together, we felt under pressure (when there was probably none). Eventually, I got a job offer from JWT Manchester and – having been at college up there – I made the fatal mistake of going back. So Neil and I ended up having very different careers. You live and learn. But you don’t get to have his track record without serious talent. Good luck to him.