What is your exit plan from advertising? Do you have a plan B?

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Become a Strategist. I already do their job anyway.

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Wow, how did you know?! Anyways, thank you, I assume you are a lovely person as well. Cheers. 🍻

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This is Plan B.

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Sorry. Hope you enjoy it.

Gurney.

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Wedding DJ or event photographer were fallbacks if I had to change industries, but obviously with covid-19 those fallbacks are gone and won’t be returning any time soon!

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I don’t know and it’s scary

I always wanted to work in film/TV but didn’t want to live in LA or go to film school and be broke for 20 years, etc. This was supposed to be my way of getting to the top and jumping over at an exec level...but I can’t fake my interest in advertising for that long. I also won’t be able to climb the ladder here if it’s something I don’t even care about that much :/

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