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Absolutely true...
Sadly it's true for most professions. Your first priority is always to sell the idea to your management that you're worth keeping. Only afterwards comes the lesser priority of actually doing your job.
Welcome to hell of modern employment.
Everybody loves to hate on marketing, but let's be honest: Marketing works. Most companies would be fucked if they cut their marketing department. Most products do need some advertisement. And those guys who have no clue about marketing like to shit on it, but have not idea what they are actually doing.
Honestly im not even sure if any company I worked for in decades has had a marketing department. I feel the c suite pretty much vaccumed that up and just uses agencies.
Marketing has become an industry based on the exploitation of human weakness (of which there are plenty). If companies even cared about making something that would benefit their customers then marketing could be about communicating that advantage. As it stands the whole system is corrupt and broken.