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I’m happy today as a GCL but it’s been a roller coaster ride throughout my career. My early years I was ignorantly bliss. I worked 12-15 hours a day as an AAE and AE but going through it with friends made it fun. As I got up to Supervisor I recall feeling very stressed. I felt accountable for projects and employees and it felt like a big leap without a ton of guidance. By the time I was ready to become an AD, I knew I was ready and it was the first time in my career I advocated for myself. I felt similarly when I was ready to be a GAD. But by the time I got to that level I was having babies and different stressors weakened me and my confidence. I faced some of my toughest hardships at the GAD role mostly bc of external factors related to my health and family. As the years went by I learned to set boundaries and have confidence. And now, I look back and I’m grateful for the journey and experience. It’s a great industry if you take a step back and compare to what others do for a living. Much more fun and dynamic. My only regret in life is not pursuing art in my youth bc I wonder if I could have been a creative. But other than that, it’s been all worth it and I’m quite happy. I hope you have a wonderful journey too
Also I thought I was going to quit the industry around 5-6 real times throughout my career. I would say “1 more year and I’m done” and by the time I hit that year, I’d be hooked again. At the time it felt like a dysfunctional relationship. But now I know that it’s like a normal marriage 🤣
12 years miserable in account before I finally followed my heart and switched to copywriting. I wasn’t bad at it but my imposter syndrome was terrible because it always seemed easier for others. Turns out I have Adhd so it was always going to be hard.
I’m much happier now even with the paycut.
Its been 3 months I have been in my current role and I am loving it so far! But not sure if I would say the same 6months from now!
I've done a lot of internal work to get to a place of happiness. I started my job and loved it. But then my happiness started to go downhill. But lately I've been going to therapy and my approach to my career has completely shifted.
Took me about six months before I started to question my career choice. I was initially really excited about my job but after a while the reality started to set in. I realized I was working long hours and not getting paid enough. AI also realized that I wasn't really passionate about the work that I was doing. But I'm still here so I guess that means something.
There's a lot of nuance in answering this question. I've had really miserable years caused by different things: understaffed while managing a heavy work load, a bad manager, not setting boundaries. I've quit jobs and even quit advertising for 3 months. But when it's good, it's really good. When I have smart, reasonable clients, a collaborative team and agency leadership that actually care about people (very very rare) - I love this discipline.
I've realized that what I love the most about my job is helping junior account people navigate the industry. I don't want to see them deal with the same BS I did. So I'm working on how to do that beyond my agency.
I'm not as happy as when I first started. It took about a year for me to kind of start having a resentment towards my work. I think it's because I get too comfortable and have to ground myself to understand why. How bout you?
Trying to do a pulse check on how other account people are feeling, trying not to dwell too much on how I'm feeling right now. Perspective always helps.