How many of you have ever dreaded a brief landing on your calendar—knowing it’s about to ruin your weekend?

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Happens quite a bit. Or when you know it’ll ruin multiple weekends.

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How’s gut LA?

Stopped working weekends except for pitches a couple years ago.

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It’s not about work hitting your weekend. It’s knowing how to come up with good ideas efficiently, and being able to wall off blocks of time to work, so that you still have time to do personal things on the weekend.

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Set personal boundaries.

Too many times to count.

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Everyone. Every time.

Years ago our group was put on a telecom pitch that began on Jan 3rd and we were forced to work straight through until March 12th. We only received ONE Sunday off during that entire 12 week span. No lie.

The weekend isn’t for work buddy

Maybe nowadays but if you didn’t show up on the weekends during a pitch, you didn’t need to show up on Monday. Nobody gave a shit.

My favourite. “We’ll schedule an all-hands check-in for Sunday at 5.” I once had an agency president ask if I’d prefer the Sunday check-in to be later in the evening out of respect for the fact that I had had young kids. Suppose counts as a reasonable facsimile of empathy in this business.

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