Dear younger creatives: You don’t need to be funny or quirky on LinkedIn to get a job. I promise.

Go ahead and have fun with this one, but looking for real answers too. ‘Older’ creative here; my husband and I are starting to downsize.. close to retirement. Tossing stuff, donating, selling. But I’m stuck at a box of heavy awards. My first couple of Cannes lions, some one-show pencils, a slew of metal local awards. Too useless to donate. Too meaningless to sell. Too sentimental to toss. Scrap metal value? Melt down into coins and give the homeless? Serious though? What would you do?

For those of you who jumped and went brand side, did you pay to have your resume ATS optimized? If so, what did you pay? I'm being courted by a major brand, but being told that my ad agency resume needs to be ATS optimized to move forward.

To all the recent grads just starting your careers and feeling like you don’t have much to contribute, please make a copy of this and put it somewhere you can see it. It’s a bit corny but so true and effective and will work for you your entire career. Anyone else agree?

Are CDs the new ACDs? I’ve always heard that ACD is the only (and worst) job that’s responsible for both doing/leading, but I’ve worked at multiple agencies now where CDs are primarily just a super senior creative team that works on briefs and occasionally leads juniors on lower stakes projects. And at the same time, I’ve almost never seen ACD teams actually responsible for creative directing others on anything… Job title inflation? Or are my agencies just weird?