Not all of the people you work with — or for — will give credit where it is due.
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Before I started freelancing, I worked as a Marketing Manager. I ran a small team of two young graduates and, between us, we managed all the company’s marketing, sales pitches and advertising.
I loved my job and I was good at it. My team was tight and effective.
But, we worked in a stressful sales environment, and our Managing Director had the man-management skills of a sugar-crazed toddler. Our team had to put up with a lot of unnecessary change and conflict.
We had more Marketing Directors than most people have had hot dinners
Our MD liked to hire what we all called ‘new shinies’. He’d interview random people (usually alpha males who were all talk and no trousers) and decide he had to hire them. If they didn’t fit in a sales role, he simply made them Marketing Director.
We didn’t need a Marketing Director but we got one regularly. All these impressive blokes had one thing in common — no marketing experience.
We just rolled our eyes and got on with our jobs. Most of the people who got the job realised pretty fast that…
