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I responded to an online posting for a writer/producer tonight. Description Television Writer / Producer (Senior) - NY , NY . Hey, let's call a spade a spade before we go any further. We could not be any more excited about having this opportunity and this client willing to trust us. Who are we but some dopey small Recruiting firm and that these guys had enough faith in us to give us a shot at filling this is an honor I will take with me certainly to lunch...and possibly dinner but will absolutely be forgotten about by dessert so there you have it... Let's get to it. The primary responsibility of this position is to WRITE & PRODUCE...Duh! Okay, more than that is to be a creative resource for all their network promotions on-air and online, as well as conceptualizing original show packages. You'll be responsible for writing and producing compelling on and off-air promotion, radio spots and sales tapes that fully convey the tone of the network and over

If you had asked me at 24 whether I would be teaching preschool at 44, the answer would have been "I certainly hope not." Actually, it would have been "fuck, no." Such is the folly and faux-foresight of the young, as here I am, an almost-old man in a world of mostly-young women. Be careful what you don't wish for. So twenty years of working among virtual children in the form of network executives has given way to spending my days with actual ones. I had had enough of going into every new gig with eyes wide open, free of guile and suspicion, only to find myself as the returning champion in another game of "Watch Your Back." ("With your Watchmaster, Jim Lange!") Twenty years of guys who needed it taken "to the next level," but who rigged the staircase that went there with explosives. Network execs who were self-described "aesthetes" and came bearing offbeat music choices, ironic eyewear and hilarious tales of being th