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    Start day! Got laid off in March and FINALLY back to work today. For the past several years I've been focused on web projects, content experiences, and content hubs as a principal UX designer at a content marketing agency.

    New role is leading UX strategy for a huge enterprise application project with a major US bank. I'm excited for something more focused and specific; my role for the past several years came with so many hats, and every ounce of eccentricity, egos, arguments, creative disagreements, and more that the ad and marketing world can conjure up.

    I'm going to be back in the city three days a week and taking the train again, which I'm pretty excited about just to be around other humans again and not in my basement all day.

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    • Congrats. That’s quite a jump. Enterprise must be full on design-system land?mort_
    • Good luck! Hope you will not be bored after a year, banking moves very slow
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    • Woot!!!YakuZoku
    • Graf - that's one thing I'm actually excited about. I was staffed to an enterprise client years ago and the pace was nice. The world I've been in was a zoo.mg33
    • mort - it sounds like it. I'll be doing less design work than I've been doing and much more strategy, which is a direction I wanted to go in anyways.mg33
    • Go get itgarbage
    • That's great news mg - best of luck!stoplying
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    • Great news. If a UX job takes 8 months to find, I expect a motion designer job to take about 3 years once I lose my job early next year.CyBrainX
    • Congrats! 3 days in the city is pretty ideal. I'm on a similar routine.slappy
    • Good stuff. It sounds like the right thing for you man. Good luck!pseud
    • Cheers!!!! Congrats on having ownership over a singular focus where you can thrive!canoe
    • Thanks everyone! I appreciate the congrats. Man it's wild to realize what a constant QBN has been across so many of our careers. :)mg33
    • Congrats, hope it's fullfilling your "expectations";)

      "be around other humans again" nice one! I miss it too, but only sometimes.      OBBTKN
    • Congrats. Best move i ever made was from Agency world to Tech world. Work/Life balance is night and day. Enjoy!microkorg
    • Congrats!!HAL9001
    • Congrats!!!5timuli
    • Congrats man! great to hear. onwards and upwards!lvl_13
    • microkorg - RE: work life balance - I can't even get work email or calendar on my phone. I was surprised by this. Asked me boss; aside from security reasons...mg33
    • they stressed that work life balance is hugely important, and don't want the expectation that employees are working outside of core work hours...mg33
    • My 16 years in agency world brain just could not compute that. If I never do another "someone will have that done by midnight" gig again, I think I'll be happy.mg33
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