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Please. I'm in marketing (not sales) and we do none of that where I work. In fact the company I work for will not lie to a potential customer, even if it costs them the sale. Maybe that's why they are still in business after 25 years and doing OK even in this economy.
Didn't say I was perfect. But I won't work for a company with no moral compass, and I'm not sure how you can possibly qualify your statement that everyone in marketing wants to injure people or is unethical.
Isn't marketing a dried up field? It's also a really aggressive and borderline unethical field. They don't care about the exaggerations, lies, or people injured by bad products. They go through loop holes and market it as the best no matter what.
That could pretty much describe the sales field as well.
Okay okay we get it. You are perfect and your company is amazing !
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Originally Posted by annerk
Didn't say I was perfect. But I won't work for a company with no moral compass, and I'm not sure how you can possibly qualify your statement that everyone in marketing wants to injure people or is unethical.
they shoudl change the major "marketing" to "sales" because that is what you'll be doing unless you know someone in marketing or get really really lucky.
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You can do OK in marketing, but you will have a tough time finding a job at first, and then you will do some real crap work for a few years to pay your dues.
Most marketing grads end up either going into sales for a few years or becoming some sort of admin/assistant until they make the right connections and get to know a business.
You also should be prepared to do unpaid/low pay internships (working your a** off) to prove you are better than all of the other marketing grads.
From my experience with the corporate world, the top 15% of marketing grads end up with a great job within 5 years of graduation, the rest either stay in sales or do something completely unrelated.
Excellent advice hsq I briefly thought of a career in marketing/advertising and that wound up being one of my minors but I realized that I personally was not cut out for this type of work, especially if your agency requires you to market a product you don't agree with. I'm concerned about maintaining my integrity. Ultimately, I went into a helping profession as that is more my personal style. What's funny was that I was a business major for TWO WEEKS but accounting scared me off! LOL!
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