One thing that has always bothered me about advertising is that to work in that sphere you have to be more soulless than usual, even if it can have good outcome

One thing that has always bothered me about advertising is that to work in that sphere you have to be more soulless than usual, even if it can have good outcomes or make many services possible. You have to spend 40+ hours a week coming up with ways to exploit human psychological weakness. You can dress it up in many other ways but that's the core unavoidable aspect of it. Only a tiny minority of the work goes into ads that simply state of a product's existence, and these often serve to make physical spaces uglier to live in.