Do you do it for the money, the fame or to actually make a difference?

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So, 'fame' was funny- but then I got to 'make a difference' and I 100% lost it. Thank you for the hump-day laugh!

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I do it for the excellent holiday schedule and vacation days.

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I do it for the money, but for my family rather than myself. So I guess you could say I'm in it to make a very localized, small-scale difference for someone.

If my primary motivation was to make a difference in the world at-large, I absolutely wouldn't work in advertising and would have remained a journalist. If my primary motivation was to be famous, I wouldn't have quit music and acting. Advertising's a terrible field for those things. Helping a giant company sell a few more jackets/phones/cans of sugar water per-quarter is the opposite of making the world a better place. And none of us are famous except within advertising circles, which is essentially the same for any career - professors, doctors, tech executives, etc all have their rockstars. To me, fame means relevance to laypeople, not subject-matter experts.

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I do it for the free almonds in the kitchen

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You left out the most important reason: I do it for the job itself.

Being paid to be creative is a wonderful privilege.

I hate my job, but I’m confident I hate it less than 99% of other jobs.

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Money. But also something to do that I enjoy at least certain parts of. If I didn’t have this job I’d just sit on my couch doing nothing the majority of my time

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Fame? lol

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Absolutely the money. Who's famous? What makes a difference?

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To make my clients money. I make money as a by product. Those are the only two things that matter. Rest is bullshit.

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D) To make stuff

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Lolz a difference

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Money

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I do it for the money of course, but I also do it because I enjoy it. Yep, I actually like going to work most days.

Make a difference.

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