Wil Reidie's Winter Book

Wil Reidie's Winter Book

Why I Quit Marketing to Scrub Potatoes

or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Success"

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Wil Reidie
Feb 14, 2025
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In 2015, I quit my safe, easy, hideously over-paid office job so I could scrub potatoes in a restaurant basement for 16 hours a day.

One reason I needed to do this was because I’d really had enough of people saying shit like this to me in the morning… 👇

Advertising poster that says some terrible marketing jargon "Mail is great but I prefer to think of it as dynamically served content."
Bleurgh

The other reason was because a Finnish dancer called Silja helped me reevaluate what success co…

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