Over 40 in Advertising

Any one know a good employment attorney in nyc with industry experience? Thanks

Tip for this crowd: fix your portfolio. That’s the post. I am seeing too many portfolios that are a dump of old work. Be selective, tell a story, and use current website tools to make it look great.

Let’s inspire with what we have earned. And not forget how we should be saving: post age when you first made $200k and current age/$....

Over 40 ? Feeling unappreciated ? Creative/execution team with the creative goods needs a New Business type to hunt hospital/healthcare accounts. Full financial participation. Let’s talk.

Thinking hardcore about a career change - but not sure where to start! Anyone here work with a life coach? If yes - anyone you can recommend? (NYC). Thanks, fishies!!

Move over bacon...

Out of work for the first time in my 30+ years career. Looking for a job in your sixties is no joke. Resume gets me interviews. I’m great at what I do, hoping one hiring mgr will see past my age.

Juicy Couture is now considered “vintage.” Discuss.

If you win many Lions, Clios, NY Festvals, adstars with your last work. And it’s the first time your agency wins those awards. Should you expect a bonus?

When I let slip how long I’ve been married (17 yrs) or how old my eldest is (13) & get shocked looks from Jrs, I just tell em I got my wife pregnant in hi school. They never know if I’m kidding...

I KNOW it wasn’t one of us over-40s that put a song in the new iTunes ad with the lyric “I’m not regular.”

Let me throw down the gauntlet. Someday, AdAge will do a feature on ‘50 over 50’ or god forbid ‘60 over 60’ and it will turn the ageism debate on its head. Experience equals HIGH VALUE ASSET.

Recently laid off. Totally feel it’s an age thing. (Everyone left is 30, I was the only one restructured out). Terrified to look again. Had three chats with agencies and have been told I’m too senior.

Advice: In Florida. After a year laid off, got offer in NYC for my dream job. BUT offer is salary I was making here & they won’t pay for relocation. I know I need to negotiate but scared to lose i… more

If ageism is justified by money, couldn’t the same argument be made about pregnancies and disabilities? Have we lost touch on why all these types of discrimination is illegal?

What’s going on at 72andSunny? Are they downsizing ?

When older creatives are let go, how much of it is simply because they cost more than juniors, and how much is it that they’re honestly perceived to not have a certain skill or insight they need now?

Hey all! How do you navigate negativity in networking? I’ve met many. Client + agency, across all ages of management. Most who are older (like me) evoke job cynicism and try to curb my interest. Cont

Has anyone had to do a video resume or a short video introducing yourself? Any ideas/tips for a good video, where I don’t hide my age but I don’t highlight it either?

For those in NYC — or consulting there — anyone have experience renting through Furnished Quarters and even more specifically, at the Instrata Gramercy? Thanks!!

20’s / 30’s : Career felt like I was on a runway path with clear destination, or at least options.
40’s : Feel more as if I’m walking the plank and the water below is getting dangerously close.

Recently got laid off. After recruiters, applying online (Black Hole) & reaching out to my immediate contacts, I broke & checked out where former interns landed. One is now CD. Ok to contact r… more

Since people comment here a lot on how no one stays in adv long enough to retire: seriously, where do they go? I started late, now 45. If people are “aged out,” where do they go next?

Macaulay Culkin just turned 39.

25yr old employee takes screen shots of people’s online conversations and blasts them out. I am old school Ad world - you always protect the privacy of others. They see nothing wrong. Thoughts?

My kids were so shitty this weekend, I couldn’t wait to go back to work tomorrow.

Any thoughts about going to college again?

What’s your favorite part about getting older?

Any luck working with a career counselor mid/late in their advertising careers? I’m finding that many of my mentors are either out of the biz or out of touch.

Wait, this bowl has almost 17,500 people in it? How many people are on this app? How many people are over 40 in our industry?!

I relate to all of this. I won 6 lions this year alone for 2 separate campaigns I produced and I still struggled. Let’s do something about this. Seriously do something. Put all this talent to use

Stumbled upon a site called StayHipp, a site that aggregates all the latest slang, memes, apps and pop culture that all the kids are into. I must be old because I think a lot of these are cringey AF.

I’m still hungover from Saturday night.