What makes you want to quit advertising?
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The sheer irrelevance of it all
both a to b
Every time I see a small business close down and get replaced with a big chain, I think it's kind of my fault for working in an industry that just makes big brands bigger.
not having job stability
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Advertising
well this is my last agency job, after that idk. but i made myself a promise … no more ….
My son. I just want to hang out with my toddler all day, go to the library together, make Mac n cheese.
Do it.
As a Father of 2 boys and I feel like I missed key parts of their youth.
Constant layoffs
Triple bidding shenanigans. Just pick the damn choice based off reel, which 9.5 times out of 10 is who everyone already wanted from the start, and call it a day.
So meaningless to pretend that something is so incredibly earth-shaking and important, and then to toss all of that aside in a few months and have to move on to the next thing that's incredibly earth-shaking and important. None of it is important. We're just making other people money by selling something to people that they may or may not need or want, but convincing them that if they don't have it, the world will end.
Designers in advertising are considered expendable and unimportant in capitalist society that feeds off of their work. We are not valued and many times we are just forced to take on more and more responsibilities outside of our own field to survive. We are also burned out from overworking and being pushed to lie through design, ignore good design and always do what the clients requests even when it is the opposite of what should be done. I remember a few professors speaking this truth to our young minds when we were in college. Scary how accurate they were.
It’s become completely toxic. I’ve been at it for decades. And I find it no longer navigable.
The assholes I have been working with for years
That I really don’t care about UTMs or tracking or data. KPIs are just to round out presentations.
Advertising used to drive culture and set the tone, not try to follow it. The industry knew what it was and what it wasn’t - it wasn’t trying to be everything for everyone
… and the inability to flat out say “no.”
Oh … and buzzwords / jargon…🤢🤢 🤮
I mean, what doesn't at this point? Enabling overconsumption and capitalism in general by manipulating people who are likely struggling to afford basic necessities with prices always going up. Not to mention how bad overconsumption/mass production is for our environment. Making rich people richer while we get offered low rates and long hours to keep their pockets full. The annoying obsession people in the industry have for winning awards that don't even matter and that having those awards seem to be the only thing that makes a person hirable these days. The increasing lack of stability and constantly wondering when your name will be next on the list of layoffs. And also what everyone else has said. Other than the obvious (getting paid), WHY tf do we all still choose to do this?
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Awards for advertising cracks me up 😂 no one cares outside of advertising. The entire award world is nothing more than a mini industry inside of advertising, centered on self aggrandizing: “look how great we are!”
The entire advertising industry could implode on itself tomorrow and the rest of the world would move on without a peep, save for the general public noticing how great it is to not be sold to every 10 seconds.
The politics, the working hours the urgency and waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under you or for a milestone to change !
Why do I have to always have an answer for client problems? Sometimes they need a business consultant, a better accountant, or their sales team sucks. But somehow it’s always my job to find out what that issue is. Advertisers at the agency level are expected to be business partners with their clients and that’s not what it was or what I signed up for.
Isn’t the real question we should be asking: why does this industry want to quit me?
Because AI is cheaper
Loss of respect for the craft. Campaigns have no longevity. We're creating ads for an ADD world. Too many apps and programs have turned the business into a DIY "good enough" culture.
Omnicom.
Meetings
Every single day I open up my computer?