One of my first big personal successes in my career was way back in 2000, when I became Polo Ralph Lauren’s in-house photographer. It was my second staff photography job, the first one being at Christie’s auction house. Polo offered me twice what I was making at Christie’s, and accepting the position was a no-brainer. It felt great as a young photographer who’d only been in New York for a few years to have found myself in what seemed like a dream job. But looking back, one of the most interesting things about it was how I found this dream job, through a relic of an earlier time: a classified listing in the newspaper. At least, that’s how I’ve been telling the story for years. I found the job listing in the New York Times classifieds. I did, right? I mean, memories can change over time. Maybe it wasn’t the New York Times . I think it was. What else would it have been? Have I told the story so many times that I’ve altered my memory to something it wasn’t?…