After a year at Advance Corp, I overheard our print sales rep talking about opportunities at his company that paid much more than I was making. When I started at JR, there were only 3 other Electronic Presspress Artists and about a dozen film strippers. By the time I left 5 years later, I had trained the traditional strippers how to paginate on Macs and there was one stripper remaining.

I started out on the 2nd shift doing car dealer ads while still running my design studio