The amount of mediocre and ugly work our industry produces on a daily basis (and with big budget and for big brands) is hurting me. Like I wake up, log into work account and see decks of work that make me go “wtf am I even doing”. Really hoping to pivot to something else soon..

My SO is an alcohol abuser but has said he knows it’s a problem and would like to cut back or quit. Any suggestions or advice in how to help and cope with this. He becomes a different person when he drinks. I want to support him but don’t know how or where to start.

Anyone have a crash course way to increase pushups in the next 2 weeks?

I'm a reservist and also get VA disability pay. I've turned my paperwork into the air force to forgo disability pay but haven't heard anything from the VA yet. How long does it take for them to sort it all out?

I accidentally lowballed my desired salary for senior level. I’m quite sure I’ll be receiving an offer letter. Any tactics for negotiating a higher salary?

What is your favorite free, file sharing collaboration site? I am building a birthday mashup video and have friends and family submitting numerous video clips and photos that I would like to house in one place with folders. Want easy upload and download.

Want to transition from consulting to a data analyst (or junior data sci) role. Current project is helping client optimise series of neural nets that drive product recommendations....cont

Asking for a friend:
What’s the interview process for a FSO Manager in EY joining the DnA BI team like? Has anyone been through the process recently? Thanks

Anyone leave Deloitte for Booz Allen? Thoughts or experiences? Utilization and compliance are absolutely doing my head in.

Would it be out of line during interviews to ask about agency revenue/growth or account health/trends?

Have an offer from AWS for an L7 Principal PMT role: $215k base + $275k sign on bonus for Year 1 and $215k for year 2 + 5100 RSUs (@ $130 / share). This is the initial offer; where is there room for negotiation? Base or Sign on Bonus or RSUs? I realize it's a good offer, but I'm looking for: $225k base + existing sign on + 5500 RSUs. Does that sound like a decent counter?

I'm looking for referral for .Net Fullstack with 3 years of experience and 30days NP
Skills : Angular, .net core , .net webapi , c# , JavaScript,sql server.

Does anyone know of any pickleball clubs in the Marina or Pac heights?

F🐟: I haven’t worked out since quarantine started (March) and would like to pick back up with some YouTube videos. Chloe Ting or Pamela Reif? Not too intense pls but I really need to get in shape

Hey fellow ADHD professionals. Struggling with my focus and memory/retention. I takes notes, make lists, and this helps with getting tasks completed. But, for example, I cant recall someones name that was just given to me, or the name of a place. Any suggestions?

Btw this group is awesome!!

PwC Pricing and Profitability practice. Senior associate offer at $123k plus 15k sign on. Offering another 7.5k if I agree in 24 hrs. Any advice where I should land?

Feel free to ask any personal finance related questions here, from equity investment to CC offers. There’s nothing called silly questions, we have some excellent peers in the group to answer it.

I have a large dataset in PowerBI (7m rows) and I’m trying to condense it to pivot in Excel by aggregating the data. Does anyone have experience doing this? How do you pivot and export in Power BI?

I have students that need to make up a missing test. I want to keep the integrity and validity of a test.
Any suggestions??

What are possible exit opportunities from FDD if you leave before senior?

Hi Fish,

My LWD in TCS is on next week. Can anyone please help me what are the formalities I have to do and clearance I have to apply for.
If someone has gone through the process recently, a step by step guide would be really appreciated.

Alright. What do you guys think of awards? Think they’re dumb? Think the entire process is stupid?

Which agencies in NY do great strategy work and are actually valued? It feels like strategy is lacking at most agencies...

McCann women are way hotter than the rest of the ship

Without asking or confirming, account lead booked an in-person client meeting that requires travel. Who books ~any~ major client meeting without first checking with the team ?

How much of your job is actually solving a business problem with creativity, and how much of it is just providing corporate self care to wealthy clients who hate you?

Has anyone received a job offer after being initially ghosted by recruiter? How long did you not hear from them? Feeling down after not hearing anything for 2 weeks after a round of seemingly promising interviews.

How do I be a decent manager to a coworker who's upset I've been promoted twice in two years and they haven't? We started out as coworkers, became decent friends after a few good moments, but went back to simply coworkers after they flubbed a few projects and I had to step in to clean up. I'm non-confrontational but year-end reviews are right around the corner and I'm worried about having to act professional to someone who I got too close with and who now hates me.

My Old Art Partner : just landed in LA for a week long shoot. Me: I'm waiting for boards to take to a meeting to NJ at 7:00 AM.

Which do you prefer?

“Give me a deadline and I’ll get the work done”
or

“when I get this done I’ll let you know and we can figure out when the client will see it.”

Thanks to the robots, there’s just not a lot left to do.

So why do we still have to spend all our waking time playing office?

What's the best website that lists out current agency client rosters? (I've seen this before on FB but can't find the thread. FB - please add search functionality!!)

Which holding company gets the best rental car discount? And which rental company?

I've received an offer from another agency and my manager says he needs to see it before a counter offer. He says it's GroupM policy. Is that true? Thank you!

What about Italy? Anyone working there?

Given the outbreak, are places actually going to be hiring right now? Recently laid off from 9-5 and my freelance is starting to fizzle.

Does anyone else feel like people who are generally nice in person and on calls sound mean or stand-offish in emails and text/chat? I get that over-use of friendliness in text can come off as green/immature, but I tend to try and cushion my words with positivity or even exclamation marks/the occasional emoji to show that I don't sound completely unemotional.

Or maybe i'm just an overthinking copywriter who's reading into it too much.

Going in house is the move, right?

In your opinion, what advertising/branding/experiential agencies should someone targeting greater San Diego and Los Angeles go after? (Yes, it is very expensive to live in California)

Hi friends, I am reading this book ‘radical cander’ and was wondering if you have Fav way/ example of receiving and giving tough feedback? Or have any stories about feedback that have stuck with you through your career.