My dream agencies interviewed me right before covid, now I switched to a lame agency for more $ and they won’t even look at me any more 😢

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Same-ish. Was in last rounds of interviews with w+k when COVID hit. Was a bad time to interview for the Corona account, I tell you what.

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Hmm IMO money is better than dreams, especially if you have work life balance.
If you can make that money AND have your dreams, that’s the goal.

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I learned the hard way that my dream agencies meant underpaid, long hours and ton of favoritism. It left me incredibly jaded about advertising for a bit. It also unfortunately was boys club. Is their Glassdoor stellar or do you see similar themes like that?

Look at it this way, you got an opp with more money and will use that to command even more at the next gig.

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One day you'll wake up and realize you're just making ads.

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This is 💯 true. And it the best feeling in the world when it does.

I always think there is cool work to be done at any agency for any account, not at all times but it’s findable. And also not permanent - you can always go somewhere else. Some accounts and agencies might be more “famous” but they sometimes use that to pay you less and could work people into the ground.

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