After graduating university, I needed a marketing job to give me industry experience. I worked at a job that gave me the title of marketing assistant, turns out that was done to keep my pay down. With the scale of marketing campaigns I was running almost completely on my own coupled with the absurd hours I was working, they were essentially trying to get a marketing manager for the price of an assistant.

I'll admit it was very valuable for my resume down the track, but when I had my "fuck this, I quit" moment 7 months in, 3 weeks later they contacted me asking if they could hire me as a consultant for a few months (at a much higher pay rate mind you).