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I’d get the hell out of advertising, dive full time into screenwriting, and volunteer for local food banks and charities.
This. I'd still want to *work* but have the freedom to choose the most valuable work.
My recurring fantasy is forcing clients to try jump through their own hoops. You want cram another RTB into this :15? Do it then. Write the script and let’s time it out together. You want 5 more product shots in the edit? Cool. Sit with the editor for the day and try to make it work. I’ll go play golf and we’ll see if you pulled it off when I get back.
I’d def feel less pressure. Speak my mind more. Can think of a couple of people at least who runs the risk of getting smacked.
I think I’m making a distinction between speaking up and speaking my mind. Speaking up = say what has to be said. Speaking my mind = tell the account team their ideas suck and that they should probably leave being creative to the creatives.
I’d carry on with the same deference, but definitely come into work in a clown suit every day until they locked me out.
I would work until someone was rude to me and quit on the spot - account, creative, etc. There’s so many micro or full out macro aggressions it would be incredibly satisfying to just say you know what, that’s not okay and I’m out.
They’re probably tell me to stop coming in
Welp. Sundays over and I gotta go to work in the morning. Same old same old.
What happens is you do better work because the scaries are dropped. Your ideas are looney-bin-nuts just how they were always supposed to be. Any shyness or insecurity is dropped, you give less fs about being your full weirdo self bc you can quit at any time. And you work less hours because you know you can while still getting the work done in a way you feel is good and occasionally great. You even put in less of a percentage of care. What happens as a result, which you never expected, is absolute success, respect from your co-workers and clients, more sold ideas than ever before and good ones too. And you’re left with shock, confusion and a simple question: why couldn’t I just do this before? And you are met with the answer: fear. Money is freedom. Nothing more.
#Money is freedom!
I would become an art teacher somewhere out in the sticks and never interact with corporate drones again
I’ve been in that situation, in a way, for the last 10 years, five at an agency and five as a freelancer. (My wife inherited some money.) And I can tell you that it has made my decision making a little more bold. But not much more. I have to be totally honest when I say I’ve never really cared about money. I work. The money comes in. I pay my bills. But I have always been the kind of person that was never afraid to follow an opportunity or recover from a setback. I’m very fortunate in that way.
As far as the work is concerned, I have always delivered at least one idea that the client was expecting at least one idea that cleverly pays off The Brief, and at least one idea that is totally bonkers when it comes to creativity. I’m not sure I have been more creative or less creative in financial security. But I can tell you that I did a lot of really good work the year I got laid off from an Agency gig and still had a son in a very expensive private school.
Have confidence that you're wiley enough to land on your feet even if you're pushed out of the whole damn industry
They for sure would be getting some wild ideas haha
Turn off the computer. Say nothing. Sleep in the next day and go out for a big breakfast when you wake up. Come home, take a nap. Then go buy a new phone with a new phone number. Eventually the checks will stop coming. The end.
I’ve thought about that too and I’d still come in everyday. But with different freedoms. I think I’d actually be more creative because all restraints would be removed. I’d want to deliver as usual but I don’t think it would bother me if the ideas were rejected nor the reasons why because I would actually be there by choice. Not about rent, car note or life things in general. We all have the freedom to leave when we want but winning the lottery (depending on how much) would open a whole new world and choices ;)
While I have never won the lottery, I have managed things with life, hosing, the farm creatively enough at times that my design job was my “real job” but at the same time, not what I most relied upon to put a roof over my head or food on the table. The way in which that let me present what I truly believed was in the best interest of the client/employer was incredibly liberating.
You are paying me for my opinion as well as my design and technical skill. I’m not saying that My Idea is the best or only one, or that we can’t work together to shape it for you, but thinking that I had some good ideas is why you came to me/hired me.
I did come into money. I still work. I was able to get away with stuff at work and also got my boss fired (no marketing experience but became our lead. Kept playing on her phone.)
I would go full fuck it mode. I would only present stuff I would LOVE to do.
Wealthy people don’t often stick around the agency world from my experience. Too much stupidity to call bullshit on. It’s doesn’t bode well for them.
I would stick around for a bit, and do my job as if I was an expert at drought farming of Fs.
If nothing changed, I would buy the company.
Or I just might walk and be a teacher in a high school. Teach the next generation what really matters.
I’d shave everywhere.