Creative Career Conundrums is a weekly advice column from If You Could Jobs. Each week their selected panel of professionals from the creative industry answers your burning career questions to help you navigate the creative journey.
This week’s question:
I’ve worked for the same small studio since graduation. I love branding and book design, but a lot of the work I am assigned to is doing motion for other people’s projects, which might be because I’m the only one in the team who does it. Since I’m very organised, I’m also asked to plan our socials, conduct interviews, review portfolios and create pitch documents. I don’t want to be unwilling to get stuck in to these tasks, because as a small studio someone has to do them, but they really take my time away from the projects I want to work on and build in my portfolio. How do I make sure that my boss values me for the skills that I actually want to use, rather than giving me other tasks which I’m good at but the majority of the time I don’t enjoy and are not really my role?