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I was thinking about my career this weekend, trying to figure out what to do with it, cos I'm really not happy at my current agency (the boss is a full-on narcissist), and thinking about the path of many freelancers I've either booked or know of, from sifting through LinkedIn and Xing.
Almost all of these people climbed the ladder: junior art director or junior copywriter up to senior, then to CD, ECD, Global ECD, Managing CD, etc. All people with 15+ years under their belt.
And now, they are back at the beginning: they're doing concepts/copywriting or art direction for campaigns, the stuff they did in the first part of their career.
It's funny, because this is also what I want go back to. The capacity planning, the administration, the endless meetings, the missing out on shoots, the constant chasing people to respect deadlines ... I really hate all this. I just want to go back to doing what I thought was fun in the first instance: campaign ideas, art direction, going to shoots.
Seems like a pattern for most experienced creatives after a certain point.