Been at a “top 5” agency for 2 years now and haven’t produced a single piece of work that I feel is book worthy. Granted, there is the whole global pandemic thing. But at what point do you start looking for a new job? Is 2 years long enough to at least get some cred for the name on the resume, despite not making anything great?

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You can absolutely start looking after two years. If you feel like you’re not making anything worthwhile during work hours, consider doing personal projects (after hours) that you’d be proud to put in your book.

Additionally, have you brought this creative concern up to your manager?

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Haven’t brought it up specifically yet, but have definitely shown that I’ve been doing a lot of grunt work and doing it well, and am itching for something more creatively driven. The response is usually something about how nobody is working on anything good right now because of covid, but that’s just not true.

Is it a specific problem with the accounts you’re on?

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Definitely. I don’t want to share what kind of accounts because it could give me away, but they’re tough clients to sell great work to. Unfortunately, I feel like remote work makes it harder to connect with new CDs and get on new briefs. Everyone is kind of siloed away in whatever teams they were in when we all went remote.

What agencies are “top5”?

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Take anomaly out of there bits of 72 and you got yourself a list there.

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