Plenty of Room for Big Ideas in Montana
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| February 27, 2008 |  View for printing |
It's a 'Global' Industry, Right? So Give Us Some Respect
If I've learned anything in my years of building an ad agency in Big Sky Country, it's that everyone wants to live here but no one wants to work here.
Alex Bogusky probably summed it up best in an interview last summer. "What am I going to do, move to Montana?" he said regarding his agency's move to Boulder, Colo. "I know there aren't any good advertising jobs in Montana."
Posted by Jeff Welch Mercury Advertising http://www.mercuryads.com/ in Bozeman, Montana.
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Folks: I got the hell out of Montana and am now checking out Oregon for a variety of reasons: 1. The governance of the State of Montana spends a good deal of time and money creating the illusion of progress and job creationl. 2. The current crop of folks who really run the politics and economy of Montana are part of the slash and burn crowd. 3. Conversion of our source of energy from fossil to plants is on the front burner of some higher educational institutional institutions, namely Rice University. Montana high eduction could care less -- they only act when fresh cash is put in their feed dish. 4. Big ideas last about as long as passed wind. 5. The Department of Energy which could be a leader in funding promising research into plant based energy, is stuck in the 19th Century. If a project involves any risk, their banker's mentality kicks in and snuffs any attempt to advance the commercialization of new sources of energy. They will approve grants to dead-end technology and to their friends and insiders, and ignore promising technology which is not dead certain to be immediately successful. |
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