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Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO

finance.yahoo.com Gen Z job seekers should be ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO, who cold-called firms from the phonebook for her first role

After landing her first job thanks to the Yellow Pages, Kinjil Mathur has climbed the ranks of Conde Nast, Saks Fifth Avenue and Squarespace to the C-suite.

Gen Z job seekers should be ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO, who cold-called firms from the phonebook for her first role

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You first, asshole.
- Talking about assholes, that's where she can put it.
- ...She literally did do it.
  
  She literally was already privileged person that didn't have to worry about providing for herself. So no. She didn't.
  
  Where are you getting that information from? It's not in the article. It doesn't say anything about her economic background, how she was paying for school, what her family circumstances were. Just that she followed the advice that she's dispensing.
  Do I think that anyone should have to do that nonsense in order to get a job? Absolutely not. But the ugly truth is that this is how businesses frequently work. If I had wanted to work in fashion design, I would have needed to do the same. My ex-wife was unwilling to move to New York or LA to pursue that career after I got the degree, especially since I would have been "interning" during the day, and then working at night to try and afford living expenses, so... Well, I don't do fashion anymore, and haven't for over 15 years. Of note, one of the few people i graduated with that I know did get a job in fashion (I believe he was doing men's shirts at Bill Blass shortly after graduating) had parents that own a large condo just off Central Park. So he could afford to take shit pay and didn't have to worry about student loans.
  
  Yeah people need to be better instead of pulling stories out their asses to fit their preconceived notions. I think pretty much every young twenty something goes through a shitty entry level job of some sort, regardless of industry. Headline is just argument bait.
  
  Did she have a fat bank account while she did it or was she skating on the edge like the people she's criticizing. Cause one is meaningful and the other is performative.
  
  The article doesn't give that information. Just that she worked as an "intern" for free starting after her sophomore year in college to try and get her foot in a door somewhere. But it was also in the era where phone books existed, so, 30+ years ago?
  EDIT: "Intern" has a pretty strict legal definition. What she was doing was not interning; she was free labor. That's supposed to be illegal because it's exploitative. The regulations surrounding internships in general are often ignored, and companies get away with it because you will get blacklisted if you report them.

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