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[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing...kill yourself" --Bill Hicks

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Oh, you know what Bill’s doing? He’s going for that anti-marketing dollar. That’s a good market. He’s very smart."

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No! Fuck you, you work in advertising you’re sucking the devils cock. Kill yourself!

[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Planting seeds.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I worked in marketing. Though..

  • I create materials/tools to help patients with chronic diseases stay adherent to medication while building a better lifestyle
  • I made materials to convince health insurance companies to cover medications

So, it's not all bad. I moved on to hospital records analysis to identify things that would kill people, and now work in protocols and systems that help preserve the privacy of user data (one of them even uses ActivityPub).

I've been pretty fortunate in the jobs I've been able to find.

[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Look, I've worked with other vulture companies to convince them to get better PR by not being absolute soul-rotting evil all the time!" is not the flex you think it is, R.E. insurance compainies.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 week ago

I think you misread. I didn't work with or for insurance companies.