Blair, Thank you for your candor. Project delays… yikes! All too often this can be a two way street as creative is not always the most efficient due to lack of process, egos and well, that's creative
Mikayla, For myself, I would set my sites on either position, but know that both are up the chain at any modest size to large agency. No one that I know graduate and achieve this position without having
Stacey, People seem to do parts of the retainer formula and not all of it. I for 1 cannot understand why agencies would set a budget amount, work past the budget and NOT bill for it. Why are you in
Mikaya, I didn't know what a "copywriter" was when I graduated from college (with degrees in Literature and Philosophy). While job searching, I read a help-wanted ad from a radio production company
First off, Nikki, don't be so hard on yourself. You are a creative already...just one without the ideal job. That said, don't think of yourself moving from psuedo-copywriter to "real" copywriter. You

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