I remember being a wee little junior, never allowed to talk with the client, pitch to them or even be in the same room with them.

In retrospect, I never realized how great that was

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I know, right?

Oh to be a junior again.

Honestly, it’s a small price to pay. Getting past the word Junior in your title is one of the biggest hurdles I feel. Nobody ever takes you seriously, your input generally doesn’t matter, etc. I know juniors have a lot to learn, as did I, but my art director is a junior and I’m constantly fighting for her ideas because she actually really knows her shit and everyone just kind of dismisses her and the other juniors when they talk

Sometimes she asks me to pitch her ideas so they’ll be taken seriously, and unfortunately that’s the only way to give them legitimacy to our superiors

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