Five decades under pressure...

摘要

All good things come to an end, and my tenure with this magazine, after more than 40 years, is about over, but it has been quite a ride! When I got out of the Army, back in 1971, it was time to look for a job, and by chance, I saw a very small ad for an Assistant Editor who had to be able to use a camera. The job was with a small publishing company in New Jersey. Long story short, I got the job and found myself writing news for three of its publications. A year before, the company had acquired a 15-year old magazine called Aerosol Age, including its staff. But when the editor left only a year later, I found myself assigned almost exclusively to work on that magazine. I was sure the job was temporary—something to do until I could figure out where my career was headed. Still, the idea of being published was alluring. I was writing something that would be read by thousands of people. But it was about "aerosols," whatever they were.