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Bobby Black Begins2006-02-15 >> entertainment category >> BBD Blog The first question I’m always asked when I tell people I work for HIGH comments TIMES is: “How the hell did you land that job?”—usually immediately followed by: “And how can I get a job there?” Well, allow me to answer that question once and for all by relating the tale of my humble beginnings at the world’s greatest marijuana comments magazine. Back in September of 1994, I was entering my senior year at Baruch College—a business school in New York City. All of my comments classmates were constantly decked out in suits, working themselves up into a frenzy over interviews, workshops, appointments, contacts, recommendation letters—anything they could do to get a leg up on what they perceived to be the “jungle” of the corporate world. Me? I was far more concerned with getting tickets to the next Danzig concert. One Friday morning, I was sitting through my boring demographics and statistics class when my long-time school chum Delia leaned over and whispered, “Hey—I got a promotion at my job, so we’ll be needing a new ad intern, and I think you’d fit in perfectly.
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