Since that my layoff and subsequent online writings, I found a lot of freelance work at various agencies, and did a decent job being an independent soldier of creative fortune. I felt fortunate to have found work when I did. Honestly, I think a lot of it was luck.
Say you’re offered a job at an agency you’re not crazy about, doing work you don’t want to do…do you take it? Times are tough. Do you suck it up? Let your portfolio take the hit? Just to keep the bills paid?
Has sending brief but cordial rejection letters gone the way of the Gulf Coast sea turtle (ooh, too soon?)?
Longevity used to be celebrated. End of year holiday parties would call out people who worked at an agency for 10, 20, 30, 40(!) years. It’s one thing to read a book by David Ogilvy. It’s another to have actually reported to him.
You can’t win, economy.
The more you swing, the stronger I get.
Biding my time.
Waiting until I can barely feel your jabs.
And your body blows feel like pixie taps.
Are you ready?
‘Cause here it comes.
You may be up in points.
But it’s a 12-round fight.
And I’m about to knock your ass out.
Since leaving my employer last June, I have often wondered if it was time for the traditional full-time job to end.
For large corporations, the 40-hour week makes sense. The employer gets a monopoly on your time and skills, and you become dependant on the paycheck. Because your entire income derives from one source, the company [...]
Briefs like this aren’t solved by whiners. They’re solved by MacGyvers. Someone who can look danger in the eye and beat it with nothing but a paper clip, sandpaper and lemon juice. Sometimes, that MacGyver fella has got to be you.
I became a huge fan of Brandon George today. Brandon is a student at my alma mater, the Creative Circus. He is also a rabid Cleveland Cavaliers fan.
As every Clevelander knows, LeBron James IS the Cavs. But in two and a half months, they may lose him to free agency. So Brandon started a campaign [...]
Is it too early too call print media dead by TKO? In case you want to think otherwise, here are some cold, gory details: newspapers have slashed a fifth of its journalists since 2001. Magazines are dropping like flies. 367 magazines ceased publication in 2009; 525 in 2008; and 573 in 2007. Do you live in Detroit and want a paper delivered to your home? Well, t.s.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The Last Advertising Agency On Earth from FITC on Vimeo.
When agencies (and people) refuse to evolve, this is what can happen.
