Sally was a copywriter/CD at W+K, Fallon, Martin, her own shop, and then she opened a CP+B office. Since then, she’s done more with her career than 10 average copywriters combined, including writing the popular book Radical Careering (above). What else can I say? She’s Sally Hogshead. Her career is what’s possible.
Site: sallyhogshead.com
Hey, this is a pretty cool thing to read. I’m honored to be featured here. There’s something I’d like to add, if I may. Along these highlights, there were far, far more lowlights. I got hired at cool places but I got laid off and fired from others. One boss developed my craft, the next broke my spirit. I’ve taken freelance jobs in which I earned money, but sold my soul. In fact, looking back, about the only thing that ties it all together is that I failed. A lot.
I bring this up because right now, a lot of us are feeling discouraged, or worse, feeling despair. But speaking as someone who’s been there, you can get it turned around. It might require a series of baby steps to change your momentum, or it might all reverse in one glorious phone call from an agency recruiter. Either way, inaction won’t turn it around. Action will. Making choices will– the choice to keep posting new content on your blog, or learning new ways of refining your skills, or interacting with people you admire on social media.
Action triumphs. Inaction sucks. It sucks the life out of your career, and your sense of yourself.
If there’s one thing I could recommend to succeed, it’s this: Keep failing. Keep putting yourself out there. Because success doesn’t lead to success the way failure does.
Love all that. Love it! Thanks, Sally.