I want to move to a real city so I can work in advertising but in my current job I'm just not making enough to save... Feeling stuck

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Gotta just go. Live on a friends couch until you can find a job. It’s scary but it’ll work out.

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Is your book good enough to get hired? If yes, find a way to get to one of those cities. Take whatever kind of job/side-gig/whatever to pay some bills while you're trying to get the ad gig.

If restaurant servers/bartenders/Uber drivers/administrative assistants/bank tellers can find a way to survive, so can you.

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Unfortunately yeah you gotta just go all in. Maybe try to set up a bunch of interviews somewhere and get flown out for a weekend. You can do it. Good luck.

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Are you paying attention to the current state of advertising currently? The 'real cities' you speak of got an endless supply of talent that's either younger, cheaper, well connected, or simply more talented than you. Im not here to depress you, but this is what's happening.

Babysitting has been a very lucrative side hustle for me personally

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