What's your policy on 'cold-call' messages from hopefuls asking for tips, advice, help? 😇 or 😈

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Are you talking about students or people more junior to you? I always try and help if I can because I know how hard it can be at those stages.

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Fine if you mean like an email, if you actually mean a phone call noooooo. I'm way too busy to take random calls from strangers that want stuff from me right that moment. Let me get to it on my own time.

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Whenever someone reaches out to me I always respond and schedule a time to chat with them. I'm mid level so don't have much in the way I can do for them though but I figure it's a small community and I'd rather chat with a hotel then sit through a meeting about our new name.

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Always worthwhile to help people seeking career advice of a way into the industry or a particular agency. Never know when that favor will come back to you. You're never too busy to help someone who legitimately needs it when you're in a position to do so and it's not that much skin off your back. If you disagree, you better not have a Netflix account. And you definitely do so, help them kids when they hit you up!

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