I quit a job in marketing to edit a youth magazine. I loved helping to launch careers (and to send a lamb chop into space)
Every morning, I would walk past my boss’s desk and see a mouse mat saying: “Keep calm, I’m in marketing.” For almost eight months, I’d stare at it, not really understanding what it meant or whether it applied to me.
I was in my 30s and had moved to a new city and taken a job in digital marketing. As the months passed, the more I felt it wasn’t the right environment for me. Since leaving university, I had always worked in not-for-profit organisations and charities. Being what some might term a “social-justice type”, I enjoyed going to work and doing things I felt had purpose – I could see their benefit and feel their impact. Working for a digital marketing firm, on corporate accounts, essentially trying to make them more money, just wasn’t for me. I needed to find a way out. Either that or embrace the mousemat’s advice to calm down, and give myself up fully to my marketing overlords.
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