I want to start over

To be a junior again. To have the luxury of just doing and thinking. Away from clients, away from the politics, away from the 9 hours of meetings a day.

I was always so consumed with moving up, comparing myself, I rushed through it and didn’t savor every bite.

It’s nice to make money. It’s nice to feel more respected and be able to speak from experience.

But some days experience blinds me.

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God me too. The days of just showing ideas and the CDs being responsible for organizing and evaluating and fixing. Then presenting and coming back to tell me what lived. Heaven

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Enjoy it now while you’re senior
I hate scoping, writing proposals, fighting for resource, reading resumes, interviewing, hr trainings, blah blah blah. Never mind the next step. Who would want to be a head of planning!

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Me too. I’ve done the role a few times and I was happy to not do it again except I like the company I work for and they asked me to. I’m much happier being a strategist or director and running projects. The pay differential isn’t necessarily worthwhile.

Just wait til you have to start telling people to do their time sheets 🥴

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Take a continuing education course in something you want to know more about. Take a sabbatical if possible. You don't have to see struggle through this state of unfulfillment.

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