I just wanted to share a thought here. I’m 52 and I have had my fair share of moments of darkness about my future in this business. Over the last month I decided to put my book out there to try my luck while working with a good recruiter. I was able to grab the attention of three agencies and get an offer from one. Nobody asked my age and nobody gave a damn about how old I am. Are we getting older? No doubt, but let’s not allow our own ideas about ageism defeat us.

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Good recruiters are hard to find at the best of times. Hang on to this one.

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Thanks for sharing this, and congrats!

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👏🏼✊🏻👍🏼

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Can you share who this good recruiter is, please?

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Personally, there are tons of opportunity for older creatives as long as your work doesn’t look or feel old. For example a creative my age sent me his book in response to a CD job. His site literally had TV spots from the 1990s in there and they weren’t classics or legends. His digital work was horrible and had no social. The world had literally passed him by even though he was working in it. I asked him about it and he told me no one cares about social or banners.

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This is kinda sad. I’m old AF. I’m 50, granted I look a lot younger (fortunately) but age is such a mental state. You’re instantly old the minute you think you know everything and learning something new is not worthwhile.
My last job was literally making TikTok content for Gen Z and my content would perform better than the stuff made by actual Gen Z team members.

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Congrats! This was good to hear

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