If you’re tired of the stress of the agency world what’s a good next step career wise? Working in programmatic display currently and sick of the never ending workload.

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I used to work in programmatic at Dentsu too. Most of my colleagues went pub side and have a much better WLB.

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Client side, ad tech/platform side, pub sales side all come to mind.

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Jump ship to ad tech (dsp, ssp etc). The WLB has been great for me

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I was at dentsu before I came to the client side. It's "corporate" but a lot of the team also came from agencies and it's a great WLB. Especially since it's mostly remote. I go in the office maybe once a month depending on meetings

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I see, yeah I am trying to find something new asap that’s why I asked.

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Sales is a nice transition. Having an executional background is invaluable when speaking with agencies, and you will run circles around many client direct partnerships.

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