What are the benefits/cons of going from a large shop to a smaller shop?

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-that cork in the ocean feeling goes away.
-you tend to be in the room for most of the decisions that affect your life
-you do more meaningful work on your own, without layers of input or redundant peers also working on it in competition with you.
-you get to know the owner
-better chance to have an impact on the agency, drive the business
-less chance to get fucked over by somebody you never met, three time zones away.

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Ha, all true, except for the observation about scale of projects at small places. I have actually done surprisingly large scale work at smaller places. Only difference between those and the big projects I’ve worked at big agencies is the sense of ownership.

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