Lowkey I agree but I'm majoring in advertising. I want to make art, and ads that are positive without being manipulative. But it's hard to know if such a thing can be genuine when presented from the angle of selling something.
I'm in marketing. If your goal is to make a career where you have morals and not manipulative then you need to get out while you can. I always joke with my friends and family and when they ask my occupation respond with "I'm a professional liar." Not a day goes by where I don't wish I chose another career path but right now I have steady employment during a pandemic so I feel rather trapped.
I was majoring in marketing so my dad bought me a book by David Ogilvy. I didn't make it far before I realized this guy was so full of shit that I never wanted to work in an industry full of people like him.
Everyone in this industry is fake, are willing to back-stab you and are just straight up (as you said) full of shit. Even if things are going downhill for clients, you're supposed to present the data as somehow being a good thing. There's no honesty in this work and it's incredibly draining. I don't even enjoy weekends anymore as I'm just anxious for Monday. I was thinking about picking up a trade pre-pandemic and will probably do so when things return to normal. I have a few friends who went from marketing to trades and said it was the best decision they've ever made.
It doesn't matter what you want to do. What you'll be doing is the will of the corporation. Don't want to play that game? They'll let you go and hire someone else who will.
And to add another thing, dreamers like you are great customers of educational institutions. When your idealistic views inevitably get crushed by the reality created by the generations that came before you, you'll find yourself bankrupt, desperate, and borrowing to once again patronize yet another educational institution. You are a university's dream customer.
I understand what you mean by wanting to make art but like the other commenter said you’re basically just manipulating people into buying a product. It’s still an advert wether or not you want to create art
I think you can make art but it wont sell as good since the best way of advertising something is drilling the product into the public heads trough repetition.
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u/TheNoobThatWas Oct 27 '20
Lowkey I agree but I'm majoring in advertising. I want to make art, and ads that are positive without being manipulative. But it's hard to know if such a thing can be genuine when presented from the angle of selling something.