Way back when, I had a summer job selling newspaper advertising over the phone. I think we had push-button phones on our desks, so at least I wasn’t wearing out my index finger using a rotary dial. For any of you under 40 years old, early telephones had a round disk with holes for each number and you had to spin … oh, forget about it. It was the Stone Age and this is information you don’t need to know.
Anyway, my ad sales job went like this:
Open up the daily newspaper’s classified advertising section and peruse several pages
