I'm a digital AD who only worked in small/medium agencies or design studios. At almost 30, I'm frustrated and stressed out by the work, and thinking I should go in-house. The only thing is I'm afraid of being bored/finding it "too corporate". Should I work at a big company, a start-up... ? I would like the transition to be as smooth as possible. Would love to hear your thoughts and stories!

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Same boat! I made to pivot to in-house/tech designer from AD and it def ebbs and flows depending on a lot of factors like time of year if there’s a lot of campaigns/activations/partnership and your day-to-day “clients” of co-workers requesting/briefing work - I had some good and bad. In general I really like the pivot, I have a lot more control and always hated the agency side filter of so many people going thru feedback/brief before it gets to me. To be fair I’m not getting the same level of work I would want to put in my portfolio but I’m noticing I’m getting more notice than I ever did because I have tech/brand side experience than I did when I was agency and that helps me get in the door to sell myself.

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In- house depends on who runs the creative dept. I loved it, but there's no way of knowing how it will turn out.

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