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Work is better when you’ve got a life. Go home already

For about a month after leaving Deutsch in 2000, Liz Gumbinner spent countless hours playing gin on Yahoo!, rolling mounds of coins and putting photos in albums. The mindless activities helped her decompress from five years of 70-hour weeks at the New York shop, where she often spent weekends and parts of holidays.

The former group creative director then went to Paris for a few weeks and made a trip to Bosnia—which she had postponed three times.



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