Dealing with plumbers & it reminds me of the old days of being a creative. You’re respected & brought in to save the day & you can charge whatever you want to because you solve the mystery w...

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With your skills that nobody quite understands so they totally trust your judgement. Plus these guys all speak highly of their employers because they are “getting paid well...so well we don’t need to take on outside jobs.” How nice to have someone ask you, “what should we do?” And then the contractor gives the recommendation and names his price. He does the job, collects his money and that’s it. You would never tell him he’s doing it wrong and make him go through rounds of revisions bc he’s not doing it the way you would do it.

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Is that really how it used to be?

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Yup.

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Maybe I should be a plumber

Tell you what — when I become a plumber, you can do my advertising

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This is so on point! I feel like digital is the new Plumbers Union.

Digital gets the “you’re the experts” leeway that the creative department used to get. Clients, and most traditional agency leadership, have no clue what the digital department really does.

I miss being a plumber

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Invest in a plumbing snake. Problem solved.

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