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Anyone else following Rocket Lab’s debut today?
Need advice. I’m a super senior content EP at a well known agency in the U.S., where I’ve been for quite some time. Checked out http://Glassdoor.com, and I make at the high end of the ranges for similar agencies. In the past year I’ve also taken on additional responsibilities (outside of traditional EP duties) that have doubled my workload and raised my profile quite a bit. How should I go about brining up a sizable salary bump (some creatives and even planning peeps earn more with much less responsibility)?
What will be in hand?
Please help

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The best type course ever! https://www.thefutur.com/typography-01
It really is!
Chief
It depends on your way of learning and how you learn best. Everyone is different. But I commend having the intention and curiosity to do this. I wish more people from
Both disciplines cared enough to do this.
If you’re more of an autodidact and like to learn on your own at your own pace, I would ask your AD friends whose experience and taste you admire, to explain some things to you. Like, “why is this composition good?” “What makes the edition in this video so cool?” Just ask questions, about the why something works and something doesn’t.
Chief
Follow design tutorials on YouTube. No better way to learn than doing.
Unless you want to truly go all in and spend years taking classes, etc., the most valuable thing you can cultivate is an understanding of your own limitations when it comes to design and art direction.
That sounds like snark, but it’s not. Understanding how you can *and* can’t be constructive is an incredibly useful and, in my experience, pretty rare skill.
I mean, I like the first part of your statement. “Go all in and spend years taking classes.” Why not?