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u/This-That555
6 days ago
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So burnt out - I hate social media - help!
I am so burnt out from social media it’s not even funny…
I started my career in social media management accidentally after graduating college, worked retail (then Covid hit) and then a friend needed someone to run their startup socials and paid marketing strategies (she liked what I posted on my personal pages) and then BOOM I realized it could be a career - but I never loved it… but I loved graphic designer, was good at it, and it felt like a way to scratch my itch as a creative but still being able to live in the job safety of the corporate world (lol I was wrong)
Since then I’ve done some agency stuff, freelance work, and did larger corporate stuff too where I did more high level strategy for overall growth/sales driven stuff and I found that I really enjoyed the brand marketing management side, but I ended up back in social media management and content creation after getting laid off from an agency a few years ago and was desperate to just get a job again.
Basically I need help in figuring out what the job market is like right now for anyone else wanting to get OUT of the ai slop land that graphic design/social media has turned into for businesses online. I’ve been spiraling about what Ai will do for creative marketers in the future too… trying to stay optimistic about choosing this career path.
ALSO if you have any “I successfully left the social media side” stories please share those too - feeling stuck.