An adland job is your fast track to an ‘Everyday Hollywood’ career
The Core Agency co-founder and creative partner, Christian Finucane reflects on his start in advertising and why a creative career is marketing’s equivalent to working in Hollywood.
When I was on work experience in London, years ago at a great agency, the copywriter who joined me actually took a two-week holiday from his ‘real’ job, in the hope that we’d land a gig in adland.
He was married with kids, so what on earth was he doing? He had responsibilities, he had bills to pay and mouths to feed. Things the fifty quid a week definitely wasn’t going to cover, not to mention the two weeks holiday his family would never get back.
We got into work before anyone else, we worked later than everyone else and we worked on as many pitches as we could, hopeful that if our idea won then we would surely get a full-time job. We even worked the weekend in-between. I was beginning to wonder if he hated his family.
Nothing like makin’ em eh Christian!
Hope you’re well mate. See you in Tassie !
Oh gosh when I was looking for a job in advertising the person at the agency said about the creatives ‘Promise them level 1 of a rockstar lifestyle and you don’t have to pay them much’. This sounds awfully similar.
Nice words CW 😉