And I do get some very interesting job offers. I really get to spend a lot of time at Giles’ gym at Coogee in Sydney trying to compensate for 20 years of ripping and tearing. ![]() And in return the company pretends to be paying you, which they really aren’t. Now what?įor a while I am called “non-executive” chairman of the advertising agency which means that you pretend to be still working when you really aren’t. Why? I fell out of my tree that is the best way I can put it. Don’t you think I have asked myself that very question ever since? Well, don’t you? ![]() Naturally I have no alternative but to toss it all in.ĭo not, for Christ’s sake, ask me why. Then, one day, I am sitting in my acre of absolute Rose Bay water-frontage home and I think: this is the great Australian dream come true. I have an open first class air ticket anywhere in the world anytime I want to go.Īnd I am making do on a salary and share of profits which even four years ago was in the $250,000 a year plus bracket which is better than a wack in the eye, which we will get to. I have every international credit card that’s ever been printed. My wife, Maggi, is driving a nice sleek white Mercedes Sports. I am driving a nice shiny black Rolls Royce, which is owned by the company. In fact, I think that it is pretty important I take you back about four years to when I was just a normal suburban home-loving fella just like everyone else who has sold off their advertising agency to the yanks for a couple of million bucks. I am even forced to admit there are better looking blokes around in the sex appeal department. I don’t sing, not even full of ink after rugby games. ![]() I don’t dance, not the fox trot or even the barn dance. I didn’t win amateur talent quests as a child. No names have been changed to protect the innocent and that goes especially for my name as I am especially innocent no matter what you may have read.įirst, I want you to realise that I am not another usual, run-of-the-mill multi-media superstar. 61-65.įor a start I want you to know that this is a true story. John Singleton, “My own ‘brilliant’ career (so far),”Īustralian Playboy, April 1981, pp.
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