Reality #12: You will eventually reach a point at which you will contemplate a career change
One day, as you sit at your desk trying to save the world from a bad headline or bad layout, you will start contemplating a career change. At first, you will only think about what it would be like to be a Teacher or a Doctor, when you have a bad day or are asked to do something immoral. But eventually you will start wondering if every ones job is better than yours – your friends, the delivery guy, the Barrista at Starbucks, your drug dealer, the dog walker, the guy working at McDonalds. Then you will reach a point at which you will actively look into a career change but get disheartened or lose interest once you find out all the work involved in making a career change … oh yes and the pay cut. At this point contemplating a career change will become a fantasy that keeps you going through the day and possibly something to share with your equally jaded co-workers.
Tags: bitterness, contemplating a career change, grouchy people, jaded, reality of working at an advertising agency
July 2, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Paycut! How could you be paid lower than agency wages?!
July 14, 2008 at 10:18 pm
The same goes for any long term career that doesn’t satisfy one iota of your being. The problem is that the pay cut you refer to is actually a reality because most career changes are apparently contemplated after 35 which means that at the least you’ve spent 10 years in the rat race and unless you make an adapted career decision, meaning consultant or jumping to the client side, this will mean you will take a pay cut… but seriously, by now you should have bought most of the stupid bullshit you thought you needed anyways… or so I hope.