How often do you guys actually get to use your brains and create visuals that are smart or clever and have at least a good rationale, and how often are you just executing your CDs or clients ideas?

I'm an AD at a PR firm and my job has basically been pixel pusher for the last year. Even when I give design advice or point out the correct solution, consultants and/or my CD just say "client wants it this way". I'm so sick of being a photoshop monkey but feel like any new job would be the same.

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I’ve worked at places with a lot of creative freedom, but I’ve also been a pixel pusher for whatever the client wants.

It really depends on how much my account/client services team is willing to fight for the creative department.

It’ll also help once you move up the career ladder; there’s definitely more pixel pushing at the lower rungs of the AD scale, but you should still feel like you have creative freedom in some regard.

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How do you get promoted if you have no work to show your conceptual chops? Feels like a catch 22 where I have to show I can do the job without having done the job...

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Probably because you’re in PR. In an agency setting you have to do a bit more problem solving, working with your writer etc. Depends on the account too and # of ppl on team.

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