How do you grow as a creative and keep your relationship/marriage if sometimes it means you have to move to another country/city? I mean, not every cool agency happens to be in the same town

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I’ve seen people get a divorce to work at WK

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If you want to work in agencies that push for good work, you have to make some personal sacrifices. If you don't want to make personal sacrifices, you make professional ones. Neither is wrong.

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I totally agree but there are people who just derive more satisfaction from work than personal life. Takes all types, I guess

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You talk about it in advance so you know what each partner is willing to do. Just like you talk about kids and aging parents and how you spend money. It’s not just ad people who do this. Your partner may be the one who needs to move at some point, would you move for them? It’s give and take.
But, most people, once they have kids in school, stop moving and just deal with the market they are in, getting crankier and more bitter as they go.

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Transparency and candid communication from the get go. My Canadian born husband told me right upfront he would leave South Africa to move abroad. We are now in CA. It was hard but I was not blindside

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