Work edition: What's something people only romanticize because they've never actually done it? I’ll start: Traveling for work

I have several years of experience working at an SEO agency and two years of copywriting experience. I also have an MFA in creative writing.

Does anyone have tips on how to find freelance SEO writing projects? I like my job but would like to be able to take on extra projects here and there when I have time.

Are we all small training sets waiting to experience and learn it all and eventually be part of the master AI aka God?

Experienced hires who have recently joined Big 4, how rough has the transition been?

Hello fishes, to join in wipro passport is mandatory like they mentioned in onboarding as my previous organisation(payroll company). it is not mandatory so i dont have a passport and my joining date is april 28th

any suggestions what to do?

Anyone had pay review conversation. How much is hike/bonus

What has been your worst experience working for a news agency?

Anyone heard if Wizard of ads?

Would TCS not even consider you if you are holding another offer? I got a call and when I informed that I am on notice and holding another offer, they said they won't be proceeding in that case.

Any recs for insightful and well written books on entrepreneurship? Friend is trying to launch his own startup so I’m thinking of sending him a relevant book as part of a thank you gift

Anyone here broken into real estate private equity from big 4 consulting? What steps did you take to jump into RE PE? What gaps in knowledge did you have and how did you fill them? Outside of the knowledge gaps what other things do you think you needed in order to get into RE PE?

Is this a good practice area for recent grads? Or people with only 1 YOE?

If planning to buy my first home in next 1-2 years, what should I be doing now leading up to the purchase e.g. things to boost credit score?

I have got an offer from Cerner. Is it safe to join Cerner now after Oracle’s acquisition?

What kind of roles do you guys recommend for a pharmacist trying to pivot into pharma? Where can you go to see all the different types of roles available? I graduated with my PharmD in 2019 and I did a managed care residency and am now at a healthcare startup so my background is primarily on the health plan/digital health side

If this drags on until November how the heck are we gonna do an election? At least the campaigning seems to have been put on the backburner

Can someone explain how billable hours work? At a new agency and although I had to fill timesheets at my previous agencies, they were mainly used to ensure we weren’t over servicing a client/for setting the appropriate retainer for contract renewals. I asked ppl at my agency but haven’t gotten a proper explanation. I get the impression that billing to the agency admin code isn’t recommended, and my manager said he bills everything to client codes, but that doesn’t make sense to me .

Why do people in this industry say "like" so much? It makes it annoying to, like, walk around the building and listen

Is it had to become an Art Director for a fashion brand? Because I was told if you aren’t familiar with Textiles, patterns and fashion merchandising it’s hard to get into.

3 tips for a fresh AE? What should be the focus?

Anyone know spots looking to bring on consulting strategy and new biz pitch work in LA?? Hit me up!!

How many benign accomplishments have you been “proud to announce” on LinkedIn?

How many agencies give cost of living/yearly raises vs just a “yearly bonus” ?

Can ya guess which one Barkley is?

Has anyone worked on the creative team for Hilton corporate? As someone who loves travel (and Hilton hotels) this always appealed to me. Wondering if anyone can shed some light on the reality of working there.

My new agency’s healthcare plan only has ONE physician in NYC listed as in-network... is a plan this limited the norm?!

Dogs in offices are cool, but who's offering some comfy siesta benefits? 😴💤

I applied for Miami Ad School NYC but to be honest, I’m not overly-impressed with the books that I see on the recent grads page. Conversely, the books I’m seeing from Creative Circus grads are insanely awesome. Am I missing something here or is one school good and the other just isn’t?

I just got into reading books, any suggestions to start with? Which could help to increase media/marketing knowledge.

If the open office concept is so great for collaboration why does everyone wear gigantic noise cancelling headphones to try to ignore everyone around them?

Working on a long term brand platform, which had the potential to be a really stellar, powerful body of work.

Sadly, it's being driven into the ground so hard by stakeholders that I have no love left for it. It's slowly becoming an embarrassment.

How do you go about this? Do you just swallow your pride and just take the paycheck? Try to fight for it tooth and nail while you still can?

Has this happened to anyone else recently?

Recruiter on LinkedIn: Hey we saw your work and were impressed with your ____ project. we’d love to setup some time to chat.

Me: ok great. Here’s when I’m free_______

Recruiter on LinkedIn: Sorry have to cancel the meeting, doesn’t seem like your experience matches the job we are currently offering.

This has happened 4 times in the past few months. Like you reached out to me??

How do you handle remote teams being in different time zones? Right now we have a ton of team leaders on the west coast with the core team on the east coast and because of that urgent requests keep coming down after hours with the expectation to address it immediately. So at this point we’re working from 8am until like 11pm and nobody knows what to do to push back on it

In a typical advertising creative team structure, who vets the new hires? ECD? CD? Trying to get some clarity as I work at a small shop with CD being the highest title.

What programs, sites, etc does your agency use to track time? I work at a small agency and looking to implement tracking on my team across client/project level.

Is how nicely the deck is designed really that important?