Bummed out by heads of production that may be good people and great producers, but suck at being leaders.

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Learn to manage up. Most leaders in advertising have zero training.

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Yup.

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It’s a special skill set. That’s why I remain a foot soldier.

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Not everyone can be a good leader and mentor. I noticed that a lot of younger people are getting hired as HOP but they really haven’t spent enough time project managing or team building.

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It's why I choose to freelance. I market myself as a hired gun who will come in, act like i'm on staff and leave a clean paper trail when I dip. Once you get to the point where you have more experience than these HOPs and/or are older than them, your best bet is to freelance and do the work no one wants to do or knows how to do properly.

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yeah … been a producer for 10+ years and am good at it. but i don’t enjoy project managing. so i’d be a terrible HOP one day if i don’t hate my job enough to quit

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Indeed. Suddenly that dysfunctional family they grew up in minus any therapy thereafter, manifests its control issues.

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