Anyone have an ok job and makes average work but you’re still happy with your life?

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Yup! My work gets better every year, but I’ll never be at WK, and that’s okay. I keep getting better, and so does my life outside work.

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I mean, therapy helps. And I’m not totally satisfied. But I’m learning to be comfortable being comfortable. Instead of constantly searching for something better

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When I found a creative outlet outside of advertising, my attitude changed dramatically. I no longer need advertising to represent the height of my creativity. The book I wrote does that.

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Advertising is not everything. Don’t let it be your identity.

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That’s so incredibly important. I’ve gotten laid off twice in my career. First time, my career was my whole life, and I was devastated. Second time, I had good relationships and interests outside of work. And you know what? I was okay.

I worked at big names before, won awards. But in the past couple of years I was working harder than ever, very unhappy and unhealthy. I was wondering why it didn’t get any easier with time. Then I questioned the whole reason why I was doing that. Why I needed to kill myself for that kind of work. So I decided to step out, I went to a smaller agency I’m trying to do good work but I will never have the budget to work on big TV anymore. It was hard at first to settle for that but once you start living your live, going out, traveling it is worth. I know people that couldn’t make it though they got back to the a-lists. I kinda think that you got to be in oretty bad shape with yourself that you can’t live with more free time.

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You think whoever’s doing those new kfc 5 dollar fillup ads over at wk is happy?

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Yah they prob get ‘em for 4

I’ve gotten to that point over the years. Took about 14 years of grinding myself into dust and dealing with insane stress. I got fired for the first time for a questionable reason by someone who I thought was my friend and it shook me hard. It literally stripped my whole value system to the core because I had so much of my personal identity wrapped into my job, working like mad, and creating the best work. After for the last 3 years I’ve recognized that I can still do a good job and see work as one aspect of my life instead of my whole life. While it sucked hard to get canned it really showed me something wrong in terms of my perspective and relationship with my career.

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Yes.

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