A very smart man once told me this: There are three things you can have in an ad job. Good pay, good culture, good work. You’ll never have all three, if you have two, keep your job. Just one, move on.

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Yup. Compensation, culture or your career.

More and more these days it’s getting to be ‘pick one.’

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Let’s also think about how this works for a client/projects. If you have all 3 I am extremely jealous.

1.Great to work with
2.Have budget
3.Smart and courageous enough to buy great work.

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Yup, that’s the saying. And if you can, you should follow it.

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Fenske?

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Damn. I think I have zero

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Told to me a few times as a junior back when. Absolutely true.

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Can I show this post to my boss and ask for a raise?

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Sounds about right.

I’m ok with that, as long as one of them is good pay

For the first time in my career I have all three. Sometimes I wonder when the hammer is going to drop

Lol a CD told me this when I was at my first shop and I was like LOL okay so I’m 0 for 3, bye?

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Anyone have all three?

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