I know I’m tardy with the New Year’s greetings, but it has been one year since I left “agency life.”

I’d been asked to join a quick call with the two founders of the creative firm where I had served as Head of Content. (Both amazing guys and a wonderful team, and I don’t want the rest of this to come off at all as negative at all. I would 100% recommend them to clients — and have.)

“This is going to be your last day,” they said. It wasn’t personal. I just wasn’t fitting into the position. The posi...