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What do you love about this industry/your job?

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As a producer, I love how every single project and team is unique. It allows me to learn and grow in ways I never expected.

Also, now that I have a good relationship with my creative teams, I can start to offer creative opinions and direction without feeling like I’m stepping on toes. I’ve become the 3rd creative in the group and can help guide the productions to a place that everyone is happy.

Job satisfaction for me is like 90% for most of the time.

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I’ve found my way from an incredibly toxic agency to an agency where everyone genuinely cares about the work and each other.

Because of the people I work with now, I look forward to going to work most days.

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Making up stuff for a living.

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The weird stock photos

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Wearing jeans to work

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Lol was just about to type that

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Leftover catering, with the same assortment of half sandwiches and little cookies.

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H1 Please this is a positive bowl as requested by OP.

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I’d probably say it’s the people. Almost all of the people I know across the industry are genuinely cool humans

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Having the ability to be contrarian, professionally.

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The break between Christmas and New Years. And that every work day is different. Keeps me from getting bored.

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Never the same day twice!

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My partner. She’s fucking crazy and I love her

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I love having to research weird stuff for work, or catch myself comping a dinosaur with chicken arms catching a baseball*... and think “wow I get paid for this.

*insert anything strange that your parents will never believe you get paid to do

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I love that I hate my job.

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I love when I can take a big complicated mess of a project and figure out how to make it run smoothly.

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Better than crack 😂

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Working on a variety of clients and getting to learn about new things, fields and industries that I never would otherwise. Keeps things interesting.

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I love this about it too! Like last year I cut a spot for a major video game. And I knew nothing about gaming but it was fun to learn about in the process of the project.

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The team - I’ve been lucky with awesome people thus far. Weirdness - we can be as weird or as normal as we want

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Definitely this one’s up there. I almost don’ want to laugh in front of my boss every time I realize we’re talking weird things like it’s a normal thing.

Knowing a little bit about everything. Ability to look at said business with a fresh eye and offer creative ideas. Seeing clients get excited when they hear your passion for their shitty business. 🖤

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All of the above and someone put a beer in my hand at 3:00 pm today.

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it beats working.

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Working with some really funny people. And international travel that I don’t have to pay for.

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