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There are no agencies with good work-life balance, only ECDs who purposely create an environment with good work-life balance because they care about their people.

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The best bet is to know someone who worked with your potential boss at said agency and ask them. But the above advice is a good indicator as well.

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I had an agency with great balance. I had an agency where I won awards. They were not the same agency.

Sadly I haven’t seen a lot of overlap, winning awards is all about pushing. Pushing the work, pushing the client, it’s hard work getting it across the finish line.

Personally, I opted to do my time at the sweatshop, get the hardware under my belt, and now im just taking care of myself.

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We rarely work more than 8 hours a day

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It varies by role! And if it’s crazy season or not.

Here we work 12+ hour days on some of the most complicated and worst ads you’ve ever seen

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Leadership is everything. Follow anyone who inspires you and treats you like they need you - even if you’re just answering phones. Because they do need you. Otherwise you wouldn’t be there. The minute you’re treated any other way, run for the hills. The industry has just as many truly nurturing mentors as it does assholes… you just have to make sure you’re in the right room.

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Oh you sweet sweet AD, no. You make the things your always going to be the last one getting the baton passed to to finish that deck, make those revisions, send that link or PDF, review that edit. This is the life you chose. I mean like maybe if you were account or strategy but not for you at a big hot shop.

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The places i’ve worked that were winning awards and doing great work, I had WLB. The places that wanted to win awards, my life was miserable. But all that can change at the drop of a hat and the hire of a new CCO. It’s just a thing you keep chasing.

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Most of the time it’s not because of the CCO but the local bosses on top of the CCO, and the regional bosses on top of those bosses, and the global bosses on top of those bosses, and the holding company bosses on top of those bosses and so on.

Tell me you're Gen-Z without telling me you're Gen-Z....

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Tell me you’re a Boomer without telling me you’re a Boomer…

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Isn’t 8 hours just a normal day?

Correct. I’m saying if they work within 8 hours and not over it

Usually awards and WLB don’t go well together. (Except WK) Life is about trade offs.

Depends on clients/team more than agency in my experience. Unless you work at an agency that abuses time during pitches.

Buhahahahahahaha….. OP in 15years (if you’re still in the industry) ask yourself this same question.

Can’t tell if you’re joking. I’m Adam&Eve. It’s a sweatshop. Always will be. It’s not for everyone. We work to insane deadlines (sometimes
24 hrs after a brief), do a lot of weekends and pitch a lot. It’s really hard

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