Would working on a tobacco account ruin my career?

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Ever seen mad men?

Yeah, but the thing is I’m living in 2019 and have a subpar portfolio.

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It won’t help your portfolio. But if you can work on other things, it won’t hurt. Then again, there’s the ethics of it...

The question is not if it will ruin it. The question is whether it will help it. More than likely, you won’t get any portfolio pieces out of it, so it doesn’t seem like selling your soul would even be worth it.
You could always not put the account work in your book, and omit the client in your resume. But again, if it doesn’t help, then why do it at all?

That’s why I didn’t take a job at Rokkan, because it consisted of a Tobacco Account 👀 but hear there doing well so the jokes on me 🙃

Yes it will. Working on any account where you cant find one example of good work out in the world will do it.

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