We’re not whiners by nature. But if we were, advertising would have us kvetching all day and all night. There are the usual client demands. Make the logo bigger. Change the headline. Control the ebb and flow of the moon’s gravitational pull.
For us, work is anything but. And the old adage “it’s not brain surgery” is so true. Even before Lisa personally experienced seven brain surgeries, we’ve both always looked at work as an opportunity to make Mojitos out of life’s lemons — lemons, limes, whatever.
Just the other day, Jackie scratched her cornea. (Word on the street was she got into a knife fight with a print vendor over color corrections.) Since she already had to wear an eye patch, she ended up being a pirate for Halloween. Way to turn that frown upside down.
Wait. Does this make us sound annoyingly blissful and happy? Like we’re sliding down rainbows on the backs of unicorns? Did we NOT mention the seven brain surgeries and a scratched cornea?
So, on the rare occasion that we get a less-than-thrilling project or have to make the logo bigger, we’re just grateful to be working. Not to mention alive and not blind.
