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Not sure I’d go back to it, but my first job out of college was as an animal caretaker at Temple Medical School. I was responsible for a lab full of dogs, rats, and pigs…and I always thought it prepared me well for the ad biz.
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As someone who just left a non-ad gig, I hope I never have to go back to one again. We have it really good getting paid a lot of money to sit around and come up with ideas.
That said, I do want to try applying my skills in Hollywood at some point. Or get into some kind of entertainment.
Job hunting can be challenging, but understanding effective strategies can make it easier.
If I may ask in your recent job application, did you tried implementing the techniques of VIPs in your job search?
Every time i'm at trader joes and go to a cashier who is older than 50 i do wonder if that will be me in a few years.
My former partner is 47, laid off from a holding company agency two years ago, and has not found work for steady, freelance, divorced, and no additional source of income, and has been working at Trader Joe’s the last three months. She says she dreads someone she knows from work walking in. She doesn’t tell Pollyanna stories about how great it is to not have stress. She feels terrible.
All the folks I know in high end real estate have a crap ton of money and no one seems to work very hard. I mean they work but it’s a lot of going to lunch, drinks, and showing people homes.
Nah. I know a few of them and they work 24/7 and seem to have a weird compulsion toward it that borders on masochism.
I did same first 5 years of my career. I was mid - senior and still bartending. F it why not.
I would not go back to bartending for hire - maybe buy a bar in a shitty part of town and turn it around or become a contractor or line produce things / manage events
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Same. I used to bartend while in AD school and I was bringing in between $240-600 a shift. I miss it. Life was simple back then.
Energy draining though
marry rich
Rising Star
I have two friends who married incredibly rich. Those marriages did not end well and they didn’t get a dime after divorced.
Do both of you can, or pivot and do something emerging in ad like learn AI space. I’ve definitely considered bartending again too when corporate life gets too much.
Lifeguard
Me too. Every time I’m at the pool I think maybe I can get a job being a guard in the Bahamas.
Honestly wedding and family photography. I was a music industry photographer in the early days of my career (while working up to art and design director level) and have the skills. The work for me in marketing feels dead. Either going to try to start my own design studio, or do photography again in the easiest cash-grab way, or both simultaneously to keep cash flowing.
Also saw someone said "marry rich" and honestly I know two people doing essentially that now and they are the happiest most fulfilled people I know.
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I think about bartending again all of the time. The only problem is my body has since atrophied from corporate (sitting) life.
i still cover bartending shifts and dj on the side. Thank fucking god, it’s legit what’s keeping me sane these days.
How do you have time for yourself
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Definitely cocktail waitressing!!!!
If lifeguarding actually paid for a Baywatch lifestyle, I’d go back in a today.