I’m a couple years into this. Currently doing freelance with some agencies but it’s definitely not award level portfolio pieces. I am talking to some people about in-house positions at a tech company and also a crypto company. My fear is it will be boring work and hurt my career in the long run. I have some great shops on my resume but I’m concerned with my lack of bigger commercial spots or activations. Am I thinking about this correctly or just being stupid?

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What matters more to you? Prestige and awards or stability? Figure out what's most important. When I was young and starting out I wanted prestige and awards. Now that I've experienced agency life I want financial stability and actual work life balance more than anything else.

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My understanding is if I want financial success in this business I need a kick ass portfolio. I’m in my 30s and I want financial stability. My secondary want is to have a modicum of fun with 10-20% of the work I make. The creatives I see succeeding have all made interesting work (I know awards are only one measure of this). I don’t care about prestige. I just know those with awards tend to have nice careers.

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I am 10 years into the industry and I’ve always worked at agencies and I have zero awards.

my classmates who went into tech company creative departments (Facebook, Airbnb, etc) are now probably making double what I’m making.

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Eh if you don’t like it, you can always leave. Better to try and know than wonder, imo.

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Used to chase “exciting work” and awards. Late 30s now and don’t care at all about that. Only care about retirement savings and quality of life.

Thinking more on it, I wonder if there’s a middle ground. I’m ok with fun work, doesn’t need to be groundbreaking. I did boring headlines and banner ads for one account for 5 months and i’ve never been more miserable. I was ecstatic when they lost the account and let me go even though I had no backup plan.

Awards are funded by agencies and will soon become meaningless

I would focus on your compensation packages and upward trajectory.

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