It’ll all work out in the end. But not necessarily for the better. But it will work out.

I work in the ad industry as a copywriter/acting creative director/acting traffic manager/acting IT purchasing officer/acting software troubleshooter (’acting’ herein refers to unpaid and uncredited) and, yes, even though I get to wear bermuda shorts, t-shirts and flip-flops to work, get to listen to MP3s all day (and burn it on my laptop), post on my blog and hang out at the coffeeshop beneath my agency at any time of the day for ‘creative recuperation purposes’… oh, allow me to add that I spend most of my workday ‘researching’ newspapers, magazines and websites… err, I’m not helping, am I?

As I was saying, my work environment still sucks. My boss is psycho (he physically threatened Badrulhisham Bidin, the dude from NST - good way of getting us all listed under ISA), the company’s going downhill (aforementioned boss took all the company profits from this year and instead of paying our suppliers decided to take a month-long trip to Euro-Disneyland), we have one PC with internet connection in the office (and most of my colleagues hog it to download porn, mp3s, make on-line bets or update their friendster accounts), the work atmosphere is downright hostile (the creative department work until 3 in the morning and have to report to work at 9 am sharp - the liquor store down the street practically delivers to our office). I’ve ranted about my work problems on my blog so I’m loath to reproduce it here.

As they say in the 12-step program I attend, ‘Act, don’t react’. I’m putting together my own agency in a couple of months. Proper planning will keep overheads low which is where all the funds leak to anyway. And what you heard about the ad industry is true, we operate on an 80% profit margin. That’s what most of the senior ad people do - they form their own biz. Cut out the middleman.

Hell, if Khairil Jamaluddin can do it…

Love the environment !!