How do I get out of advertising? I’m quite over agency life and am running out of new career ideas.

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With the amount of context you’ve provided…

…marry rich?

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I really wish it was this easy lol

Find all the horcrux

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Plot twist…they am a the horcrux

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If you’re any good at making other brands famous, start one of your own and make it awesome.

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Get skilled in performance marketing or media planning. Jump to marketing side.

Best skills for a copywriter to expand on.

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Don’t do media planning unless you know you can at minimum tolerate it.

Gotta defeat the final boss

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The best skills we have as advertising professionals is the ability to interpret briefs. Get good at writing them yourself and you can easily flip to client-side.

That or Brand Management. Do Mark Ritson’s Mini MBA courses. Cheaper Ad school and much more widely accepted.

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Be a tennis pro

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Have your agency pay for your MBA.

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It’s like the mob, you get out two ways. In a casket or in handcuffs.

Casket is you complete die from the industry and learn a new profession. It’s a complete fade to black and most creatives can’t imagine it and never do.

Handcuff is you stay in something similar but less interesting, and rot in a mediocre version of what you wanted out of . In house or freelance clients that pay the bills but aren’t exciting.

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Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start

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