Potentially jumping over to client-side after 6 years. Anything to look out for?

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Becoming the client you hated when you were on the agency side.

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Where are you going to? (I’m also looking to switch)

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Better hours. A bit one sided, though. I do miss diversity of assignments.

Diversity.

Just came back to agency after being client side. I missed diversity, freedom, communication of ideas, big picture long term thinking vs daily needle moving, and you might feel as a fellow agency expat put it, like "we don't mean shit to them".

Happily took a a junior title with more than junior years under my belt to do cool shit again.

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