Starting to think I might not be built for this industry. Just logged my first 60 hour week, but 40+ has been the norm for months. Several years in, 2+ without a raise or a breakout book piece, and I genuinely can’t work harder. I can feel my work quality slipping as the fatigue compounds. The catch 22 is that I’m too burnt out to job search properly without looking sloppy or stealing time from work that I can’t risk losing. Any advice on how to get unstuck, or better tolerate the workload?

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70 hour weeks were often the norm for many of us coming up in the early aughts… and rarely given raises unless you present a competing offer. Talk about abusive.

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Set boundaries. It takes time but pay close attention at the kickoff for timelines and say something early. Anytime there is a client related delay (approvals/source information/assets/platform access) call it out and realign the timeline. If they add something out of scope, call it out. Or tell them, happy to help, what do we deprioritize to make this happen? It takes time, it takes teammates that do the same, client engagement teams who don’t just bow to every client demand. But just getting it done using 70 hours is not sustainable. I’ve been in agency life since 2003, and I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve worked close to 60. Set boundaries. Period.

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