Why are we discouraged to go in-house early in our careers? Supposedly it’d be hard to go back to agency side, but why?

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Probably easier to make a portfolio at an agency than in-house

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Sweeping generalizations always have their exceptions. Do you if it works.

In-house, creative graveyard. They still use agencies, so you get the crap work.

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Can confirm, very true.

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I’ve worked 3 years agency side and have been in-house for almost a year and I’m trying to get back to agency side.

Reason being the work just isn’t there yet. We still use an external agency who somehow gets a completely different (read: better) process than us, along with bigger budgets.

In-house has its perks, great pay, flexibility, low-stress for the most part, but more times than not you’ll be doing house keeping type work.

Unless your Spotify, Apple, or one of the other really good in-house agencies, I’d say it isn’t worth it yet.

Cut your teeth at an agency, make the better work earlier if your career. Then, when more in-house agencies actually start getting better, you’ll have a book to get yourself in

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