Agency vs In-house
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I've done both, I prefer freelancing to either..
It's true, there's lots of coasting going on in the in-house world, so I'm oddly brought in as a freelancer when the full-time in-house staff is "overwhelmed with other projects" because they'd just rather not do whatever it is I'm supposed to do..... and they're sometimes really good at looking busy but doing a few "high-maintenenance" projects.
If you find a way to automate certain things, you could be dead meat, or a hero to somebody... just be careful!
In agencies, you can't get away with as much laziness, but the egos are much bigger....
The first few days at an in-house gig, you have to pay attention and learn the pecking order, there's usually somebody with more authority than knowledge....
Some in-house designers are really good at creating a handful of screenshots every few weeks and going to a few meetings and taking most of the credit for the work the introverted invisible programmers stay up all night coding....
If you're at an agency, make sure you get to meet clients, otherwise 2 things happen:
1. game of telephone - client says "X" account person hears "Y" and tells you "Y+1" in an attempt to add some random feature to impress the client that the client didn't ask for, thus going sideways from the original idea
2. Agency creatives who never meet clients are seen by management as expendable, and sometimes interchangeable
But....it's true, Agencies often do have some good looking women working there, often for their ability to cause high-testerone old men on the client side to ignore their skepticism ans sign on the dotted line....