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The other benefit of the agency life is the network you build. There’s a lot of churn and ups and downs and you tend to build ties easily and often. Kind of like old war buddies.
I agree. Agencies can be pretty hard on most people but when you come out of the hustle, you realise just how much you were forced to be good at!
I lead an in-house team and sadly it's night and day between folks who've never been in an agency, and those who have. As much as we were all abused, we learned things 2x as fast because we had MORE work, More pressure, and also more people around us doing it better to learn from. Competition breeds excellence and when you are in a small group without all that, it definitely shows up.
100% agree, I recommend it to anyone looking to eventually go freelance. The breadth of experience, both in types of clients and types of work, will make you better and vastly improve your portfolio.
If you have to ask, you’re not as experienced as you think.
The content of the post makes sense and I wouldn't say it's untrue. Agencies definitely build a machine out of you. However, if you're one of the people who are able to stay true to deadlines you create with your clients and produce quality work over and over again, you're building the same expertise. I don't know that ageny experience is a necessity.
Eh, I don’t know. I would honestly say that years at an agency have done a number on my confidence, which is one of the biggest assets you can have as a creative. My freelance friends all seem a lot happier and well adjusted.
I wouldn't disagree, but I would also contribute an addendum: Every creative should go fulltime freelance. (Not forever, just for a while.) Being fulltime freelance for ~6 years, while incredibly trying and stressful, gave me gifts I am even now still discovering: the ability to juggle many more concurrent clients than I've ever had at an agency; a deep understanding of what each client wants as well as their particularities, unmediated by an Account person; holistic view of running a business...I could go on and on. While I'm now FT at an agency and shudder at the stress I endured as a freelancer, I credit my (pretty quick) rise through the agency ranks in large part to what I learned when I was out there on my own.