I currently work at a network agency that's not producing much and what they're making isn't great.

I've got an offer from an indie - they're offering a senior role with more money, their culture is great, but their creative leadership isn't well known, the work is pretty average / on par with the output of my current agency.

Is going to the indie detrimental to my career given I'm losing the prestige of a network, and aren't making up for it with better work / leadership to learn from?

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Go for the culture and the money. The amount of places producing great creative is insanely small.

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Haha nah Straya here, close enough

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When you go to a small shop, you produce more work and you have the ability to control your creative. If you don’t love what that indie shop is doing, well that’s totally fine. Because you at a senior level, can do better work for them and bring more money, and creativity in. While you’re making more money. You’re at a big shop now, you have the network already. Don’t stress about that. I started at a small shop and I got paid a lot more than the average junior does and made a lot more work. No one had ever heard of the agency at the time. Now they’re blowing up. Needless today I don’t work there anymore because I got everything I needed out of it. I would do it all over again.

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