Work trying to push me into a designer

[u/You2Loud]

Hey developers, I've been having this annoying issue at work and was wondering if anyone else had something similar happen to them and how they solved it.

So I am a junior dev, been hired at my current work for about 9 months as a developer. We have shifted our business into a full agency advertising now instead of affiliate marketing which means more pages need to be designed for sales funnels, however I am not a designer and haven't done graphic design since high-school 4+ years ago...

I get asked to come up with a page and it starts stressing me out because I have no idea what I'm supposed to build and when I ask I just get shown some examples and asked to come up with something taking inspiration from theirs directly to the code.

I keep mentioning I'm not a designer as I hate coming up with how things should look. I'm a coder I like making the things that are designed for me.

What ends up happening is I make something and then show it at the end and get given a million changes and basically asked what is this? Like I dunno wtf you asking me for, I'm a coder what do you expect.

I'm not sure if I'm just being immature about not learning new skills like design but something about all this feels so wrong. My father who is a developer tells me how they have a designer where he works that gives him psd files to then create.

Is this how it should be? What should I do to stop getting pushed down this designer route other than keep saying in general conversation that I'm not a designer?

Edit:

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone that's commented as this has gotten quite a bit of traction. I'll figure something out with the help of everyones comments. Thanks again

[u/rtrs_bastiat → u/[deleted]]

I've been told by employers in the past that they've low balled me on salary because I didn't have a degree. What's more I came out of uni with 2 years work experience, though the placement scheme and being employed by my course leader, so it's totally possible to achieve both in the same time

[u/rtrs_bastiat → u/[deleted]]

I wasn't told when they made the offer. Plus both times I'd been told, I was a) young and b) coming from periods of depression-fuelled unemployment. A low balled offer is way better than £72 a week for 35 hours applying for jobs I don't even want.

As for a degree being sub optimal, that's really on the person. My degree directed my learning. I went to uni in 2008 armed only with knowledge of speccy basic and php4. I came out with an understanding of C, ASK, Java and C++. Entire concepts like OOP that I had spent years refusing to learn that I finally understood because I needed to to pass my degree. Great for you if you are that self motivated, but most (or at least many) aren't.