My Search For Truth In The Big City Notebook For Charli 3

I'd heard that my Father didn't want kids. Then he went and had four of us. So was my Dad really an old softie? I think maybe, yes. Once in a while he would demonstrate this. Like when I left school at Year 11 and we moved house at the same time. I was torn between Newspaper Journalism and Advertising Copywriting as a career choice. What to do? My English teacher was saying Journalism and a friend who owned an Ad Agency said Copywriting. Then out of the blue my Father told me to contact the Advertising Manager at a large Melbourne department store. I did and I got the job as Messenger Boy at this city based store. My Father it seems knew one of the department heads. Suddenly I went from wilderness to city, from Nature to commerce. Turned out to be a good move and, as you will read in my tell-all book, I had some amazing experiences, even though I was a mere Messenger Boy. But this was just the start of something big.