OK, here’s a real toughie!
What’s your advice (other than retire) for an older former Group Creative Director, who has been client side for the last 15 years? Please, don’t laugh.
I’d love to go back agency side and not healthcare.

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It seems these days it’s easier to pick up freelance jobs than get hired for FT.

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Plus! Often freelance gigs turns into staff jobs. Or offers, anyway.

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Freelance.

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Reach out to your contacts. Folks you’ve mentored in the past who are now occupying leadership positions. Offer to freelance on a few assignments. Consumer AND healthcare. One leads to the other and vice versa. The line between both industries is blurring.

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Combine two of the above replies.

Start freelancing, but for clients, not agencies. Then build and grow that freelance team person by person to include more than just creatives, add strategy and account and production. Word will spread of your team. All of a sudden, you’ll have started your own agency.

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Sorry but I need to ask: why?

I’ve been watching Mad Men and I miss the agency life.

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