Creator's Block

I love working at an agency. (Lucky for me, the agency I work at rocks.) In fact, I made a joke with someone the other day that I didn't choose the agency life; "the agency life chose me." Each day presents new challenges and opportunities to learn and push myself to solve complex problems. As someone who gets bored easily, this kind of dynamic environment is critical to my professional happiness -- I couldn't imagine it any other way. But here's the thing about working at an agency -- while it's great for marketing creatives who want to dive right in and get their feet wet in an energetic, fast-paced environment, it's not for everyone.  No matter what style of creative you are -- designer, website developer, writer, editor, etc. -- agencies will always ask more of you (from a skill sets perspective) than the creative projects in your portfolio. Given that Marcella, Jessie-Lee, and I have all been in the agency world for a long time, we're spending this episode sharing our experiences, as well as the skills t