Currencies: Senior Creative, Writer and CD in Amsterdam

Honesty is the best policy.

“It’s a bad time to be an emotional eater,” says R, a Senior Creative in Amsterdam and the latest subject of Currencies—our series exposing the real salaries (and real feelings) of working creatives.

From pandemic pivots to ADHD impulsivity, her financial journey is equal parts strategic and survivalist—and easily our most candid account yet. R does not hold back, and we’re better for it.

“I feel like I'm suffocating my creative ambitions, which need nourishing in better ways than Uber Eats toddler dinners and emergency drinks instead of the school run. Working mostly for big global brands, I am frustrated and creatively unfulfilled, but too tired to change this at the moment.”