You Love Your Life! We’ll See About That

Alan J. Schwarz
9 min readJul 26, 2024

Miserable People can’t stand Happy People

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Martin Abromovitch was the type of guy most people rarely encountered. He worked at an Ad Agency as a copywriter. He wrote memorable lines for ads, that were never attributed to him but had become part of cultural history. He minded his own business and most interacted with his Creative Director at work. He minded his own business and was friendly but not a party type of guy.

Marty was thirty and never complained about anything. He seemed to be in a constant state of being in a good mood and he never participated in office politics. He bought nice presents when he was a Secret Santa and he kept his private life to himself.

It wasn’t until the Agency changed ownership that things started to get weird at the firm. Uni World Advertising was purchased by DXI International in a hostile stock takeover. The Managing Partners of the Agency made sure that all the employees benefited financially when the deal closed.

The night before the new management team took over there was a major party at La Brassiere to celebrate the the original partners of Uni and wish them well. One of the owners, Andy Lehman, came over to Martin. He put his arm around his shoulder. ‘’Marty, working with you has been one of the greatest pleasures of my life. I constantly received reports…

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Alan J. Schwarz

Alan Schwarz loves life. He is the founder of JAMS Productions, a television production company based in Toronto . His passion is writing.