I’m a senior copywriter playing the creative director role of a 4 person creative team. I feel like I’m being taken advantage of, but also that I’m learning a ton the hard way...cont.

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I would leave. You are still at a level when you should still be honing your craft. Managerial skills is a good thing, but growing your own body of work is more important right now.

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I had a similar situation but I was still mid-level. I was at a global agency but in a smaller regional office. They fired my CD (who was an older burnout who checked out years before and was just collecting paychecks) a week before a shoot so I was able to play as many cards as possible in a short window, using the relationships I made with people on the account side to get work done that never would have been made had I not had that creative control. Now, it was a terrible situation and I think it set me back as far as developing as a writer, but I have 2 or 3 major book pieces and a handful of awards thanks to being thrown to the wolves.

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Same exact boat. I’m trying to leverage that when applying places.... we’ll see where it gets us.

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Can I use this experience as a badge during interviews? And as a reason for looking elsewhere? Or does it come off as arrogant because it’s what’s expected of you when the team needs a leader and the company won’t hire one?

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Nah, take that credit. Put it on your resume and speak to it in interviews. It was an opportunity that you were needed to step in, and subsequently learned a lot from.

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It depends how long OP has been a Sr. CW. If your craft is suitably honed, they may be testing you out for ACD/CD. They may also just be cheap. If you're doing well and it goes on longer than a few months, maybe point out that you've been doing the CD thing successfully, and it's time to promote you or hire a CD. Then you'll have your answer on whether or not you need to jump ship.

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