Someone messaged me recently to help with career advice for a relative. My advice was to run, run far far away from Advertising.

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I’ve said the same thing to young family members, young friends, and strangers of all ages. Run far, far away. If you absolutely insist on doing it, steer clear of the holding companies entirely.

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Yeah I’ve been saying the same. The margins aren’t the way they used to be and aren’t going back. This results in industry-wide safe, forgettable work and financial volatility.

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Last one out turn out the lights.

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Yet ad school are just pumping out chumps

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I think we’re all lost, just at varying levels of denial and distance into the maze.
My advice, use your creative talents elsewhere, and when you find that, lmk

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I’ve been telling people this since 2015. The writings been in the wall for a long time.

I used to get a lot of push back from colleagues for doing so. Not anymore.

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Solid advice.

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I do know that people who still work at the same TV station I worked at 17 years ago are actually making quite a bit less today than we were all making then. Some of it is due to ageism. Most of it is due to the fact that traditional media was rocked by digital even though digital results suck and tech bros who set it up as a sales machine couldn't care less about results for their clients.

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Where do we go if we’re already here? How do we escape?

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Yep. I wouldn’t recommend this business to any college kid.

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ACD salary is the new CD salary.

solid advice! This industry will break your heart over and over again until it finds us too old to be relevant. Now what do we do with our lives?

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