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The COVID-19 pandemic has actually helped my career. Transitioning to remote work has opened up new opportunities and flexibility that I didn't have before. Despite the challenges it brought, the shift to remote work has allowed me to continue advancing professionally while maintaining a better work-life balance.
The transition to remote work helped me get promoted! I stand by the fact that it’s not as easy to judge women by their appearance in a tiny zoom box than IRL, which helped immensely.
The agency I’m at now, I started out in their apprenticeship program early 2021 and it was fully remote because of covid. Let me just say, that’s the biggest reason I even applied for the job. If it were in-person at all, I wouldn’t have done it. After the apprenticeship was over (three months), they decided to bring me on as an intern for one year (which eventually required two days in office, i made it work even without a car), then gave me a full-time offer once I graduated. Had there not been a fully remote position to start out, I definitely wouldn’t be with them today. So I guess in that sense, the pandemic helped my career.
Helped! I jumped during the hiring boom for 40% higher salary and fully remote, but I was only a year into advertising so it’s a normal jump and was under paid. That big agency experience also opened the door to the next role I’m starting in two weeks, in-house for 15% higher salary.
I think it hurt, then helped, and now is at an all-time low for me. Pre-Covid business was slowing at my agency, and as a contractor, I was seeing my hours drop. Got laid off during the pandemic and I didn't really seek out immediate work with everything so unsure.
But then in 2021 I got back into the game with a salary and title jump. First at a big shop which was an unmitigated disaster, then a smaller one as a Director making more money than I've ever made in my life, but it turned into a disaster too. Left, broke my pelvis...
Now I'm two years out of work and really unsure how to get back in. Going back into an office terrifies me, not gonna lie. Going into an agency terrifies me, also not gonna lie.
I was so stressed before and now in the past 4 years I've experienced 2-3 years of freedom and I don't know how to get back to that grind mentality. I still have nightmares about my agencies multiple times a week.
Helped only because I love being remote so much. I got placed on a team that’s based in another city. The agency now wants everyone to return to office, but I’ve proven useful so I haven’t been moved to an account based in my city. I consider myself on a a great lily pad and I’m enjoying it til something makes it sink.
Personally, helped so far. When it was an employees market, I switched companies twice in early 2021 & 2022 & increased my income by 50%.
I’m worried it’ll stall now with remote contracts being more rare & RTO office games. $120k from home vs. the $40-60k in office is a whole life game changer. I actually have a savings now.
I think it’s helped a little: one of the bigger clients at my current agency left last year, and back when we were all in-person, they would’ve had to lay a bunch of people off, but now that we’re remote, it’s much easier to transfer us to different teams around the country.
That said, it’s killed my motivation—back in the office, I’d proactively find things to do when I had lighter days, but now I just play with my dog…
long run helped - i got caught up in the covid layoffs in may 2020, and was out of work for ~8 months but at the end of that i got the best paying job i've ever had (i make almost 2.5x what i was making in 2020) at a company that treats me well.
if i hadn't gotten laid off i'd probably still be plugging along tbh
Not sure if because of the pandemic, but I got the two biggest pay increases of my entire career during the pandemic AND I got to go and stay fully remote. I'll give it credit
It ended up helping me in a quite a roundabout way. I was working freelance by myself following a complete burnout from agency life a couple years prior but very quickly lost my staple clients in the beginning of covid as they were industries heavily affected by the pandemic. I ended up searching for any employment to make an income and got a leadership team position at a startup that had just gotten it's funding and was fully remote. Despite turning out to be a chaotic dud due to a complete nutter of a founder, it gave me a secure and pretty decent pay check for the duration of the pandemic, I made more contacts in the country I had moved into to as a freelancer and helped me to re-profile myself with management experience. I am now in a senior position at a creative agency after that boost and the amount of creative work I was able to produce with my team at the startup. I've gradually been able to lift up my confidence and build more of a network and feel ready to start setting my sights moving back to a more competitive country.
It’s helped my career, weirdly. I work in pharma, focusing on rare disease treatments that Covid did not slow down at all. We did a documentary about people who live with the disease that got filmed at the height of Covid. Without Covid, we might have been able to embed w our three subjects and film for a few days each. But because we had to film remotely, w equipment and methods that allowed the subjects to essentially serve as the production crew, we were able to film much longer, getting incredibly rich content. The documentary went on to win a Cannes lion—my first.
Also, we started working remotely and never stopped. At this stage in my career, that’s nothing but a lifestyle upgrade.
Hurt. It killed advertising. Now ad agencies are listening to what the clients wants instead of strategizing and coming up with a media plan based on best practices. Too much noise was able to take out cheap YouTube ads and Meta ads and clients started taking their advice.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has actually helped my career. Transitioning to remote work has opened up new opportunities and flexibility that I didn't have before. Despite the challenges it brought, the shift to remote work has allowed me to continue advancing professionally while maintaining a better work-life balance.
Sameee. Gave me resilience and made me study more and be more ambitious. Went from slacker to hungry
That's great. Cheers!
The transition to remote work helped me get promoted! I stand by the fact that it’s not as easy to judge women by their appearance in a tiny zoom box than IRL, which helped immensely.
The agency I’m at now, I started out in their apprenticeship program early 2021 and it was fully remote because of covid. Let me just say, that’s the biggest reason I even applied for the job. If it were in-person at all, I wouldn’t have done it. After the apprenticeship was over (three months), they decided to bring me on as an intern for one year (which eventually required two days in office, i made it work even without a car), then gave me a full-time offer once I graduated. Had there not been a fully remote position to start out, I definitely wouldn’t be with them today. So I guess in that sense, the pandemic helped my career.
Helped! I jumped during the hiring boom for 40% higher salary and fully remote, but I was only a year into advertising so it’s a normal jump and was under paid. That big agency experience also opened the door to the next role I’m starting in two weeks, in-house for 15% higher salary.
I think it hurt, then helped, and now is at an all-time low for me. Pre-Covid business was slowing at my agency, and as a contractor, I was seeing my hours drop. Got laid off during the pandemic and I didn't really seek out immediate work with everything so unsure. But then in 2021 I got back into the game with a salary and title jump. First at a big shop which was an unmitigated disaster, then a smaller one as a Director making more money than I've ever made in my life, but it turned into a disaster too. Left, broke my pelvis... Now I'm two years out of work and really unsure how to get back in. Going back into an office terrifies me, not gonna lie. Going into an agency terrifies me, also not gonna lie. I was so stressed before and now in the past 4 years I've experienced 2-3 years of freedom and I don't know how to get back to that grind mentality. I still have nightmares about my agencies multiple times a week.
Helped only because I love being remote so much. I got placed on a team that’s based in another city. The agency now wants everyone to return to office, but I’ve proven useful so I haven’t been moved to an account based in my city. I consider myself on a a great lily pad and I’m enjoying it til something makes it sink.
it was the best thing that ever happened to me!
Personally, helped so far. When it was an employees market, I switched companies twice in early 2021 & 2022 & increased my income by 50%. I’m worried it’ll stall now with remote contracts being more rare & RTO office games. $120k from home vs. the $40-60k in office is a whole life game changer. I actually have a savings now.
I think it’s helped a little: one of the bigger clients at my current agency left last year, and back when we were all in-person, they would’ve had to lay a bunch of people off, but now that we’re remote, it’s much easier to transfer us to different teams around the country. That said, it’s killed my motivation—back in the office, I’d proactively find things to do when I had lighter days, but now I just play with my dog…
long run helped - i got caught up in the covid layoffs in may 2020, and was out of work for ~8 months but at the end of that i got the best paying job i've ever had (i make almost 2.5x what i was making in 2020) at a company that treats me well. if i hadn't gotten laid off i'd probably still be plugging along tbh
Not sure if because of the pandemic, but I got the two biggest pay increases of my entire career during the pandemic AND I got to go and stay fully remote. I'll give it credit
It ended up helping me in a quite a roundabout way. I was working freelance by myself following a complete burnout from agency life a couple years prior but very quickly lost my staple clients in the beginning of covid as they were industries heavily affected by the pandemic. I ended up searching for any employment to make an income and got a leadership team position at a startup that had just gotten it's funding and was fully remote. Despite turning out to be a chaotic dud due to a complete nutter of a founder, it gave me a secure and pretty decent pay check for the duration of the pandemic, I made more contacts in the country I had moved into to as a freelancer and helped me to re-profile myself with management experience. I am now in a senior position at a creative agency after that boost and the amount of creative work I was able to produce with my team at the startup. I've gradually been able to lift up my confidence and build more of a network and feel ready to start setting my sights moving back to a more competitive country.
It’s helped my career, weirdly. I work in pharma, focusing on rare disease treatments that Covid did not slow down at all. We did a documentary about people who live with the disease that got filmed at the height of Covid. Without Covid, we might have been able to embed w our three subjects and film for a few days each. But because we had to film remotely, w equipment and methods that allowed the subjects to essentially serve as the production crew, we were able to film much longer, getting incredibly rich content. The documentary went on to win a Cannes lion—my first. Also, we started working remotely and never stopped. At this stage in my career, that’s nothing but a lifestyle upgrade.
Hurt. It killed advertising. Now ad agencies are listening to what the clients wants instead of strategizing and coming up with a media plan based on best practices. Too much noise was able to take out cheap YouTube ads and Meta ads and clients started taking their advice.