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If you can spin it as a positive, great. But be careful: you don’t want to devalue your contributions. It’s a fine line between “team player who will do what’s needed” and “bottom of the food chain executor.” If you’re still doing some quality, conceptual and high profile work ALSO, then great.
high risk and high reward
brotha, you need to mediate.
In the end, nobody will remember the guy who did all the work no one else wanted to do.
It only matters if you’re remembered come raise season.
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Depends on the nature of the work and the revenue it represents I think. Many agencies have far from sexy, meat and potatoes, it brings in solid revenue on a consistent basis type of work. Sometimes certain creative types will turn their noses at that, but it needs to get down and the money/revenue matters. You can make a case for that. But if it is truly scraps that don't add up to much billing and revenue wise, it's going to be a hard case to make. Either way, good luck to you!
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What’s a leftover brief?
Yeah. Never heard that one. And since when do creative people get to decide that they don’t want to work on something?
I feel like this is a great way to get assigned more “leftover” briefs
If you make the leftover brief work great - then yes.
one does not ask for a raise,
one provides a plan for a career upgrade.
If you have to argue a raise, you ain’t getting one.
My point has nothing to do with advocating for yourself. Its about the process of how raises are dealt out. Usually your manager will already have an idea of who is getting a raise and who isn’t. Especially if it’s part of a big network. Only so much money is set aside for giving people a raise.
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I am not sure that’s worth bragging about. If you have a talent of turning bad briefs or a restrictive assignment into something great then maybe you have a case for a raise.
You can angle it that you have no ego and will do what is needed for the team
Does someone not manage you to ensure the ‘shitty’ work is more evenly distributed? Or are you actually putting yourself forward for the ‘leftover’ briefs? Either way it feels weird to me that the same AD would always end up with the shitty work no one wants to do. Unsure if it’s a reason for a raise