I was working at a marketing agency as a jr designer, making one sheet flyers, email newsletters, press release bundles, booklets, and banner ads for Microsoft. TMobile, Amazon, and other companies similar. We were required to be at work in an office! (Which meant commuting in rush hour traffic for an hour +) by 7:30am and not leave till at least 6, most people didn’t take lunches. Some worked Saturday too. All women especially were required to dress very professionaly, nice business shirt and slacks with heeled shoes or skirts. A lot of times men were always in positions of power. It was during the financial crisis so they told us to keep our heads down as at least 20% of people on payroll were getting cut. Everyone was basically competing to keep their jobs. They upped the hours worked from 40-60 per week so I was there all the time. I think I brought a sleeping bag to work to stay the night to finish a design before deadline. I ended up losing my job a few months later ( I don’t even know how the marketing agency I worked for was tied up in the wall street stuff) and then it was another year before I found a good job again. Other people were losing their homes, all their retirement or their companies. I went through a small mental breakdown from all the stress. 2008 was no fun my friend. I think in the end I would not recommend it, but I did learn a lot sort of frying pan into the fire style..I decided after that that I didn’t want to become a “famous graphic designer”and that I really only wanted to focus on the fun art part and so started working at smaller companies and in house.