Susie Harper graduated from high school in the upper third of her 1984 class, but it wasn’t enough to earn her a scholarship. Fights with her family ended one day when she packed up her clothes and left. She got lucky, landing a job right away in Chicago as a copy assistant at Doyle Dane Bernbach. Things were good for a while until DDB lost the Polaroid account. Susie was one of the dozens who got the dreaded pink slip. ​...