So you want a job as a copywriter? Oh, you've never really written ads? But let me guess, you have published a few short stories. Which is awesome. And you've come to see me because you Googled me and found that, like you, I was pretty much unqualified and unprepared for a job as a copywriter when I started out. If I could do it, then why can't you? So far, I'm tracking. I was a just-barely-published novelist (very small press) when, at 30, I got my first job as a copywriter.