At the end of the month I’m headed to an offshore shoot in EU, and my spouse wants to come over a down weekend since it falls on my birthday. Have any of you done this as a freelancer? I feel like I’ll have to sneak around, which I hate. How do you make it work? I’m an agency freelancer so want to make a good impression.

How do you single 🐟 find time to meet people and get to know them when working these crazy hours? Feel like I'm putting that part of my life on hold due to my job, and it's kind of freaking me out 😣

@microsoft my spouse is starting a new job at Microsoft and want to buy him swag. How can I find some or buy something new off someone? The Microsoft merchandise store has a steep shipping price

How are the SAP projects in IBM, Mumbai location?

What’s the fast way to become a concept guru?

Does LTI not send welcome goodies to all employees ? I just got laptop, charger and bag😐

Anyone else stuck here without family? I'm in SF and my roommates are going home to their families tonight and i'm going to be alone, it's going to be a long 3 weeks..... 😭😭😭

I was recently hired by my dream agency. I get creative freedom, flexible hours, and I can work from home if I feel like it. Always keep looking for better opportunities, you never know when one might show up!

Is there a need for freelance community managers?

SO and I got in to a disagreement on the background of Indian tech CEOs. It appears that they are all from 1 or 2 major communities in India.

While he thinks that its genetics/being naturally gifted that got them to where they are I believe it's the environment & discipline that made them successful. We are not from said communities but curious to hear your thoughts on who is more accurate.

Thank you FB family. After a two year hunt for the right opportunity, I am happy to announce that I have accepted an offer at FAANG (TC - 280) . The road wasn’t easy especially the last 2 months. I took the interview overseas (basically 2am - 3 am calls), was recovering from a surgery and finally contracted covid. I got some good advice from folks over here CONTD...

I am currently overseeing the Americas/Layan real estate portfolio of a big consulting firm, based in New York City. Aiming to move as I have been here for a long time and learning curve is fairly flat. Any ideas of comps with other corporates? Have 15+ year experience in real estate

What is your take on the PROSCI certification (on the company's dime of course)?

Hello everyone,

Anyone from CITI here who can refer me for its 'App Developer Programmer Analyst' role? Need this on an urgent basis as my current organization has given me a time till December 2022 to find a new role. So any help in this regard will be much appreciated.
Thank you

#Citi

What’s with the stigma against a beer or a glass of wine with lunch? Isn’t really that big of a deal.

Do you get your mom's flowers for Valentine's day? My mom is single, so I thought it might be a nice gesture

Graduated college 6 months ago and just been working since. I’ve been living in my city for almost 20 years now and want a different change of scenery. Any advice from people who moved west coast to East coast. I’ve been interested working in Chicago or New York

Is it difficult to get hired as a junior CW?

Do you know of any full time/freelance creatives who also direct commercials? Like, ones who cherry pick jobs they want to work on?

Best physical comedy directors? I’ve got a decent budget and good creative but it’s a fast one.

Agency producers in nyc, how much should a monthly retainer be? Max hrs?

What are some smaller production companies making great work these days? Not so much the big multi-director lead commercial prodco’s but the creative upstarts? Who ya a fan of?

Past experiences shooting in Santiago, Chile? Watch outs? Good experience?

Is Spain still a hotspot for good/cheap 2D animation production? Any studios to recommend?

Anyone here have some good leads for sending a colorist reel out? Just cut a new one and recently incorporated. Trying to get the ball rolling for when things pick back.

Is $100K low for a senior producer @ creative agency in nyc

Ok production companies. Say I’ve got 3 weeks for you to divide up until I need to shoot. How much time do you want to bid/treat the job and how much do you want to prep? 1 week bid/treat, 2 weeks prep?

Anyone have Producer friends / contacts at Pandora? Looking for an in. 🙌🏻

Looking to do a fall shoot for a client before the leaves have changed and fallen. I need prop leaves. Anyone have any ideas about how where to contact for a massive amount of fake fall leaves?

How hard is it to get into Apple Marcom?

What’s everyone using to create estimates for clients and manage resource planning so if the estimates are awarded you have the team in place to deliver. We use Actualize it which is built on FileMaker. I’ve heard of Farmers Wife, F-track and Ceta.

Has anyone shot in Tokyo? Any watch outs, things that caught you by surprise? Special budget or schedule considerations for shooting exteriors in the city? Tips for how to shoot there on a shoestring?

Is MJZ a union shop?

Anyone have any intel on Mosaic NA XM, Limitless Creative, Freeman, Inspira, or Factory 360? Currently interviewing at all of them for either acct manager, producer or hybrid (both acct/prod) roles. Thanks!

How’s the freelance producer market doing these days? Busy, slow?

Is advertising/corporate production a feasible way to get into scripted tv production? Is there a better path?

A production I worked on is $250k in the hole and owes a bunch of crew members money including myself. Looks like they just missed a big deadline to keep from going belly up. What should we do?