u/XTPopcorn

Hear me out first: we all know it's abysmal out there for juniors (and pretty much everyone else). I was a junior creative for a bit but got made redundant and never managed to get back into it. I've got a job at a different agency, just not as a creative, but I'm doing quite a few things outside of work (photography, film shoots, spec campaigns, photo & video editing, design etc.)

Ideally, I'd still want to work my way up to becoming a creative director, even if it's not in advertising, but I'm not sure if that trajectory is possible. I'm still looking for creative jobs but at this point I'm considering just trying to move up the ladder and using the money to fund my personal projects.

Is there any way I can make it all work out or am I just being delusional?

Hi, I've been having sinus issues for a while (some doctors said it was chronic rhinitis caused by nasal spray addiction) - it's a pain but getting on a plane is when it gets really scary.

3 different times while flying (usually during the descent) I started feeling an intense, sharp pain in the left side of my forehead and temple - felt like my head was being crushed. The area around my left eyebrow and eye would start feeling numb and tingly too, my eye would start watering and my neck would get stiff, the pain was genuinely the hardest thing I had to endure. After the plane landed the headache would persist and the worst time it happened, I could barely walk out and considered asking the flight attendants to call me an ambulance. That same time, I felt incredibly weak the whole day and threw up multiple times (idk why).

I looked into this and started reading up on barotrauma, which seems to be connected. Annoyingly, I went to the GP about this and they literally laughed at me, telling me they've never heard of this before and that there's nothing that can be done. That reaction really surprised me, surely I can't be the only person this has happened to right?

Has anyone else dealt with that and found a way around it? And any overall tips to improve sinusitis/rhinitis caused by nasal spray addiction?