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Hanging up, I take a moment to lean back in ency is non-stop work and running the preency in NYC is a bucket of stress with a duood at it Ligne NYC is the top advertising agency in New York City, and I take a moment to savor my success

Sometimes it’s still hard for me to believe I started this co but a beat-up laptop and a raging desire to succeed I chuckle, re those days My laptop orse for the wear, and I often had to wipe pizza stains frohter Meanwhile, my current office is about two thousand square feet, a luxurious aerie in the sky I’ in cost et up and walk over to the wall of s on the far side of my office Below, people scurry to and fro as yellow cabs swerve around traffic, but ahead of , and that’s all I need

Suddenly, the phone onup It’s my assistant “Hey, Jan What’s up?”

“Sir, your two o’clock is here,” she chirps

“Who is it again?” I ask idly

Her voice goes a bit quiet “It’s one of the junior associates, Ronald Putnam You know, the one who sits on the fifth floor in the co with you for the twentieth time, you told me to just book it so he’d stop”

“Fuck” I pinch the bridge of my nose as pain flares behind my eyes “I remember now”

The last thing I want to do today, or any day, is uy In fact, I only have a faint ain, I couldn’t let him harassjust to get him out of Jan’s hair

But this next half hour is going to be fucking painful Junior associates often think they’re bright young things, but the fact is that advertising is aboutis also about i-standing relationships As a result, the associates often overesti Turks for their youth and energy, but there’s no substitute for experience and discretion

“Mr Neuwirth, would you like me to stall?” Jan asks in a quiet tone “I could say you’ve been called away unexpectedly?”

“No, it’s fine,” I snort derisively “Send Mr Putnam in”