Agency Life

Have you ever accounted for every 15 minutes of your life?

Until I arrived at Liggett-Stashower, I hadn’t. I have worked at my school’s student-run agency and have interned at a large corporation, but nothing was quite like the first week here. There were job numbers for everything, and employees keep track of their days by recording every 15 minutes’ worth of work. That’s the process they use to bill clients.

With this system in mind, it’s hard to describe a “typical day.” Each day is broken up into different chunks of time, working on different projects for different clients.
That’s what I love about agency life. It’s no nine-to-five, doing the same tasks for the same people every day. Especially as an intern, you are given the opportunity to work on a variety of different projects and contribute to the overall success of that project. By being tasked with different assignments, you are really able to build a solid skill set and learn things you wouldn’t in a classroom.

In agency life, there is no “small” task. Every element is a part of the final product.

-Stefanie S.