If you had an opportunity to go client side but it involved a decrease in salary and title, would you take it? Appeal is obviously getting out of the agency craziness and having a more stable job

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I would. Work/life balance is huge for me and if it means slightly less pay and a better schedule, I see that as trading up. As long work is fulfilling, and you’re doing interesting things, working with great people, or learning, it’s worth a gamble. What’s the worst that can happen...you come back into agency craziness.

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I wouldn’t care about title. But no way would I take a salary decrease. There are three benefits to going client side - money, work/life and job security. From what I see, job security is not what it was. I’ve seen more layoffs client side in the last two years than I’ve ever seen, certainly rivaling agencies. So, benefits are money and work/life. Everything else is a negative - creativity, innovation, the general freedom to get things done, etc. Don’t give up one of the only two positives of the whole thing.

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