Letters

Can’t find work? It must be the portfolio size!

Since we all know that age discrimination doesn’t exist in the advertising industry, I have been totally puzzled as to why I’ve had to work so hard to find work in the past few years. Gratefully, that mystery was cleared up for me with your article, “Lay Off the Astroturf” [Careers, March 15].

Darn, who would have guessed it was the size of my portfolio. There it was, this startling insight: “Anything larger than 11 by 17 will look positively outdated.”