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I know a guy who won nothing for his first 10 years (and he started later in life). He did a side project that impressed the CCO at a big nyc agency. Got him a job there. In his 1st year there he did a campaign that won him 12 lions. He was in his late 30s. If you have the hustle you can make it.
@acd1 this post gave me so much I hope I really needed right now in my career. Thank you.
How do you define doomed? Losing your job after 40? Not attaining personal goals? Being burnt out?
IMO, if you are still good at your job and delivering solid work for paying clients, a c-level agency is more likely to keep you as you get older.
If you are hoping for personal achievement and recognition, that’s on you: Spec work, jumping ship, a new career path, some introspection on what that means to you and why it matters.
Burnout can happen to award-winning big names and “keeping the lights on” valuable players alike. It’s all in how we react and adapt to the day-to-day.
If you chose this career to win awards, yeah, you may be doomed. If your idea of career means what you look like to other agencies to keep moving from job to job, same. If you picked this career to have a job, make some money, enjoy your life and do something you like, you‘re already wildly successful and not doomed at all.
@ACD3 You give extraordinary advice.
Don’t think like that. Do the best you can and come up with some side projects to get yourself noticed.
I never won any awards, yet got recognition from my side projects.
But in general don’t live up to anyone’s standards. You are unique, and so is your life and your path
What was the side project?
What if you’ve only worked at A-list agencies but you’ve never won anything? I’m 7 years in
You sound just like me in my 30s. It took getting fired to light a fire under my ass and I eventually landed at an A-list place and have done well. You may just need to get really motivated and put yourself out there every day until something happens for you. It’s not going to come to you. It just doesn’t work that way.
I have 20+ awards, including Lions. I've worked at several A's and a few B's. Now at 45 I can't get any kind of work at all.
I’m in the same boat, keep at it. Awards aren’t everything. But if you really want it, they will come. Just try to keep making great work.
I just love the idea of doing my own side projects, having work life balance and being able to feed my family. Could care less of those awards.
If you want your career to be different, go change it.
If you think it is, then it is
Awards are so overrated . I hope that culture mentality dies in the next 10 yrs .
If someone says to me “that idea is not award worthy” one more time I’m going to snap. I want to make things that benefit people not for a circle jerk .