Quit his job as a broker at Merrill Lynch in Detroit when he was 22.
According to
Andy Warholl in "Popism", his father Harry Mead was the
"political boss of Michigan... one of Roosevelt's favorites, and his
official title was Wayne County Democratic Chairman, but he was also
head of the Liquor Control Commission and the WPA in the Detroit area.
He'd made the resident partner of Merrill Lynch in Detroit the state
treasurer, and so the treasurer felt obligated to give his son a job.
When Taylor left his stockbroker job in Detroit, he had just fifty
dollars in his pocket.".