Hello, I’m new here. Don’t hold that against me.

Hello everyone, my name is Lee Rostad, and I’m the new copywriter at Ecreativeworks. I’m at the end of my second day, and so far no one has called me N00B yet, so that’s good. I dig writing in all manifestations, so the fact that I’m able to do it as an actual job is pretty great. I write for my job, and I write as a hobby, so it’s a good thing I can type so fast and am an axellunt speeler. (<== That’s a spelling joke, right there. Not funny, but technically still a joke. I’ll try to keep those to a minimum, sorry.) I should also mention that I’m a big fan of weird words, like “defenestrate,” which means “to throw something or someone out a window.” As probably the world’s only “big fan” of weird words, I’ve found it’s usually easier to just avoid them in this sort of writing, because it usually leads to “What the heck does that mean?” instead of “My, what an interesting word that fellow used,” since most people don’t usually have a dictionary right by them like I usually do (though I suppose one can use the Internet for that kind of thing now), and unfortunately people don’t often take time to look up my weird words, which is too bad because words can be really interesting (I swear!). But, I’ll try to minimize the weird words, as well.

On a more relevant note, copywriting is one of the most interesting English-language based jobs out there, but I’ve found it’s fairly unknown to many folks. When I was an English major in college, not once did any of my professors or advisors mention anything like copywriting as a job possibility, but I’ve found it to be a great occupation from my few years in the game. So, if anybody reading this knows an English major who can’t find a job, steer them toward copywriting (as long as they don’t take my job–I am the new guy, after all). Also, when telling people what I do for a living, a surprisingly large (to me!) amount of people have asked what a copywriter does. After I explain it, they almost always say they’d never really thought of such a thing before (apparently a lot of people think that the words on websites and in catalogs and such just appear out of the ether). But, as I said, copywriting is a really interesting (and quite enjoyable) job, whether people know it exists or not.

This whole thing has gotten way out of hand and off topic, so I’ll close by saying I’m glad to be here at Ecreativeworks, and am looking forward to working with the rest of the team to make sure those words on the Interwebs keep magically appearing out of nowhere. Thanks for reading (if you made it this far), have a great holiday season, and be careful driving on these caliginous winter nights.

Lee

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