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Hello Ad World,

I was wondering how all of you married people out there keep a healthy marriage working in advertising.

I'm not married by the way, but often wonder how it works with advertising folk.

Working in London as a creative usually means very long hours, working some weekends, going abroad on shoots occassionally and then excessive drinking at parties. Which means 80% of your life is advertising.

How do you make it work?

D

marry someone who is as busy as you are i guess...

Is that the only answer?
Is that the right thing to do?

Who knows?

atleast this is better then being a flight attendant. my friend's wife is an air hostess and he gets to see her once in a week.

we must find a balance. i bring work home, though this is not the answer but my wife feels better when i am home.

denesh, i can understand the excessive hours and i think so can an intelligent wife. but excessive drinking is a very personal and not-related to advertising choice. but we must do it


anyway, i know lots opf people in adveertising wjo are happily married and have a healthy driking life (slurrrp)

i believe in 'work smart not hard'. i have seen unnecessary meetings, unnecessarily long PPMs, unnecessary brainstormings and bad work plan.

know when to end a meeting, have an agenda, plan your day and work, and push the suits to breif you first thing in the morning and not at 6 PM. i am sure you will start going home early.

Agree with Morton. Actually creative hangover is wasting our time.
If we manage our time properly then there wont be much overnights.
we are the culprit and we are the sufferer.

a typical agency in delhi. creatives walk in at 11 AM. Then they check their emails and make phone calls. It is lunch. They finish lunch by 2 PM and get some breifs. They work on them for an hour. And then have their 'chai'. It is already 4. They surf the net. Account people come and start pushing and the work start at 5 PM. They work seriously for 2 hours and it is already 7. And now it is snacks time. Yesterday's work bounces back. Some people are simply hanging on for no reason becoz at 7 PM there is too much traffic. They stay till 9 PM and complain why do we have stay so late. Actual hours of serious work is only 4-5 hours. If they came at 9 AM they could have finsihed everything by 4 PM, just like in a bank.

denesh wrote:Hello Ad World,

I was wondering how all of you married people out there keep a healthy marriage working in advertising.

I'm not married by the way, but often wonder how it works with advertising folk.

Working in London as a creative usually means very long hours, working some weekends, going abroad on shoots occassionally and then excessive drinking at parties. Which means 80% of your life is advertising.

How do you make it work?

D

the manner that you wrote it, it's more a lifestyle for you rather than a creative days, i beleive too, that working in advertising doesn't mean working late every day and having drinks, but if you are looking to built a family and still loving your job, you'll be constrained to make efforts to adapt your actual lifestyle.

This is something quite interesting, some of my lecturers said they lost their girlfriends after they enter advertising agency because they simply just dont have enough time to accompany the girls. Wonder isit true that as long as you enter this industry it's a matter of choice----career or love?

Daryl

This is something quite interesting, some of my lecturers said they lost their girlfriends after they enter advertising agency because they simply just dont have enough time to accompany the girls. Wonder isit true that as long as you enter this industry it's a matter of choice----career or love?

Daryl

This is something quite interesting, some of my lecturers said they lost their girlfriends after they enter advertising agency because they simply just dont have enough time to accompany the girls. Wonder isit true that as long as you enter this industry it's a matter of choice----career or love?

Daryl

14 years ago, when i joined as a trainee writer, my CD told me to forget my social life for the next 5 years.

14 years have passed. And I still don't have much of a social life.

Funny. I am in advertising and i havea rocking social life. I eat out every single night, am meeting friends over every single meal, and the fact is I am singke and dont spend much time at home. But i am sure if i got married, i woud have enough time for my wife, IF I WANTED TO. Saying i dont have enough time is a lie, and a blatant one, to cover on's own inefficiency. I also manage to cram in enough freelance and bought a car with freelance money.
Who says he doesnt have enough time? Has he/she accomplished more than Steve Jobs? Jobs runs Pixar and Apple, two pathbreaking companies. Is this person with lack of time more accomplished than piyush Pandey? I am sure if you ask such people, they are sleeping way into the afternoon on sundays.
Not having to much time is a disease. There are enough number f hours in a day and enough days in a week and so on.
Imagine somone like steven soderberg. Just finishd shooting Ocean's 13, The Good German is released, a couple of more movies are due for release or principal photography begings soon. And for those who dont know, Soderberg is a Cinematographer for most of his movies, whih of course he directs and he edits them as well.
If you make an hourly chart of useful and productive hours in a day, you will find there are few. The rest is full of pfaff and wasted time. Mostly.