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I asked him if he could put a word in with his father and then one day I'm driving a car and his father calls me up. I'm literally driving and he calls to say my sister works for a PR firm and go ahead and email her your resume. I googled the firm and it happens to be like one of the number one PR firms. His sister happens to be the CEO's secretary. When I'm in meetings there now and I hear, this is a must hire or a should hire, I think about how I didn't know these terms existed before. I went to the interview and the HR lady asked me, are you nervous and I said, I just want to work. It was so demoralizing that I just wanted any opportunity. There was an element during the interview that she knew me as family and she wanted to help me. They made me take a writing test and meet the people I would work with. It was literally a personality test, I was scanning the room for what I have in common with these people before making conversation. The HR lady said, listen, I need three references from you, handing me the job on a silver platter. She called them to say, just tell me he's not a serial murderer because we want to hire him. It's an entry-level position in the pharmaceutical industry, which is basically brand building and crisis management. For example, over the summer, it broke out that Viagra and erectile dysfunction drugs are linked to sudden vision loss. In a case like that, the client will call you freaking out. If every wire is trying to contact them for a statement you tell them to say, no link has been found and you'll do research. In health care, it's gotten so regulated since Viox and malpractice. Those so clearly slipped by the FDA and people started dying so now you couldn't get away with saying you'll do a study and then not do it. The same exact ingredients for Viagra where just approved to treat high blood pressure in the pulmonary artery, which can be genetic and could affect five year olds. Viagra gives you a hard on if you don't want to have sex. You have to get a prescription, which is not very hard. I think a man should not start seeing a doctor about this until he's forty-five if he's having trouble having an erection. But what I do for those accounts, quite honestly, is administrative. First thing is I read the trade publications, they're online, daily, and about what's going on in the health care industry. Because all the pharmaceuticals are in bold I can scan for our clients and then forward them to the people in the office who hold that account. I say that it takes me an hour but it really takes 8 minutes. For the rest of the time I go to ESPN.com and check scores and I go to the independent movie database and look at Natalie Portman's profile. Did you know she was born in Israel? I think that if I become my roommate's manager that I am going to have a chance to meet her. It's actually pseudo realistic. She looks like a very plain Jewish girlóthere's something about her plainness. At work there is a computer program where you have to account for every quarter of an hour of every day. So, say I worked on a power point presentation for Cymbalta, that's the antidepressant I work on, say it's four hours of stuff. I surf the Internet for a few hours and then get it done quickly. There is always more work to do then can be done. Like, I could be at work right now.



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