How do finance people view marketers / ad guys?
I know bunch of finance people and they always seem to be ripping on marketers for smaller paychecks. However, marketers, always say finance is tedious, and their jobs are more creative / exciting. What do you guys think? Completely out of curiosity
Is a marketer someone who works in marketing?
Ya, like marketing manager (highest you can get to is usually 200 k - at end of your career) for a product, or ad agency exec
My opinion - Everyone wants to believe their job is the best. So they defend their careers and criticize all the other ones.
The bulk of people in "advertising" or "marketing" are primarily concerned with how much placing a 2"x3" ad in this weeks' Time Magazine costs their faceless corporate account, not any sort of actual insightful or creative thought. The (small) handful of actual creative people I know in that space in NYC have excellent pay and awesome life-styles, the rest are basically indistinguishable from any other office drone, just like the low-value-add finance drones that exist at every firm to facilitate the actual money-making process.
Well said
As a finance guy, I view marketing careers as a shit-show.
Goodluck buying bottles.
If you are like Don Draper, it's awesome. If you are one of the guys buying stuff from Don, not really.
Why do you care what finance guys think? I don't give 2 shits what people think of what I do.
because you carry a loaded gun on you at all times :P
It was an "out of curiosity" question, I'm not deciding between marketing and finance, because both are very different. I did one marketing course, and though I got an A, I felt like my brain was not challenged. I also found it to be very common sense, and actually pretty boring. Finance, however, i fell in love with as soon as I took the first course.
Why do you care what other people think of you? You need to develop an internal strength. Real success is going against the grain and not listening to the sheep.
but ill agree that marketers generally have crappy jobs and that the real advertising/marketing types are the design ones, not the ones who studied marketing
Marketing sounds great to girls - who cares about anyone else
And reason why I'm asking, is that at my school's business faculty there is constant trash talk (obviously, in good spirit) between marketers and those in finance. So, I wanted to know if perceptions on the undergrad level are the same as those in the workforce.
i dont think any entry level 'sales executive' as most marketing jobs open up to have any ability to talk shit about genuine high end finance jobs, what school are you at? is your school an uber high end marketing school?
No, we're not very well-known for marketing. Although I know quite a bunch getting internships at JWT, Y &R , and mccann. Our science, economics, law and medicine are very well-known though.
What are you talking about when you say Marketers?
I never met an advertising professional who went to B-School and outside of advertising marketing is normally BO or Sales.
I mean undergrad marketing students vs. undergrad finance. My bad on the confusion.
as far as how they sound to women...
anything in finance = nerd and boring (to the average woman)
marketing = exciting and crazy awesome career making extremely funny commercials all day long
undergrad marketing will tned to be chicks that should have never attended university and are only there due to the massive devaluation of university education that has taken place in the last few decades.
I mean marketing is even a degree? lol
As a finance guy myself...I'm jealous of all of the good looking women guys in marketing/advertising are working with that I'm not.
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