Have much have side hobbies or gigs contributed to your success at landing a job?

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Seems like WK cares about that more than your book, or at least almost as much

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Slightly frustrating because my hobbies are fairly generic and not really book worthy

It’s never helped.

Side hustle culture died a very well justified death years ago.

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Oh, that’s your OnlyFans?

Helped me with a career change!

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Side gigs have given me the opportunity to work on cool projects that my full-time gig couldn’t provide. Passion projects can help round out your portfolio.

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Immensely!

- team sports - not just skills and teamwork, but also something to bond with during interviews.
- freelance creative work - organizing assets, meeting deadlines, following up with clients at the right cadence, etc.

I don’t think they guaranteed me a job, but definitely gave me skills I could talk about that weren’t on my resume and allowed me to bond with some interviewers because we had common interests

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Fortunately and unfortunately yes. Was passed over at wieden years ago because of a lack of them. Years later was hired because of them.

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I’ve always been all about the extracurricular activities.

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I agree! Wieden also gives us resources/time/money to make them happen, at least in my experience. I get it’s harder at an agency that looks for it, but doesn’t support it.

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They haven’t.

They have helped me make rent and buy food in the face of years of effective pay cuts.

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My side projects totally changed the course of my career. It inadvertently became my great escape from agencies, and was able to work at two of my dream jobs.

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Not directly, but it did save my sanity when I was stuck on a shitty account a couple agencies ago.

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It’s literally the reason I’m in this industry. I owe so much to my side hustles, but they’re more integral to my identity than being an ad copywriter.

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Not at all.

Not at all.

Not even a little bit

Nope

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