What I Learned At Sea

April, 1985

What I Learned at SeaI have no satisfactory explanation for this, but for almost ten years, I was employed by Playboy magazine in a position that many people described (somewhat carelessly, I often thought) as the greatest job in the world. For an aspiring young writer who'd spent years day-dreaming about exotic lands, it probably seemed as close to perfection as any job could be. The work consisted of foreign travel, with an open expense account and a walletful of company credit cards, and taki...