stcrimson667:yayfeminism:This is a real magazine. “Tween to tycoon”..“When I was growing up, it seem
stcrimson667:yayfeminism:This is a real magazine. “Tween to tycoon”..“When I was growing up, it seemed like everyone wanted to be a teacher, or a veterinarian,” said [editorial director] Galla. “Now, I heard ‘app creator,’ ‘chef on YouTube’ or ‘CEO.’ These girls want to establish a brand — or make themselves into a brand — with their social media channels, and I was just blown away by their ideas.”People, I think, don’t really understand the reality this is reflecting. I’m 26 years old, I graduated from university about 2-3 years ago and I still don’t have a job, I’ve been looking for years and nothing. There are no real jobs anymore, the best my generation can hope for is working in retail for minimum wage for the rest of our lives. My generation doesn’t have any upward mobility anymore, we don’t imagine the future and think “One day, I’ll have a good job in a company, with a corner office and everything!”, we think “One day, I’ll work my way up to manager and then I’ll run this KFC franchise for its owner!”. And, really, the best job that’s out there for my generation is on Youtube, making Youtube videos. We have pretty much no other pretty jobs because no one cares to try and give us any better jobs, the focus is entirely on Baby Boomers and Gen Xs and, between both of them, no one cares about us, no one wants to give us jobs when they could give it to someone who has 10x more experience that we do. My generation has nothing, but minimum wage and exploitation, or Youtube. That’s pretty much it. Honestly, I wish I had had this advice when I was a teenager, maybe I would actually be somewhere now instead of beginning to leave my twenties behind and still having nothing!This, plus automation is destroying a lot of old jobs and will continue to eliminate more.One thing that goes unaddressed when talking about successful Youtubers is that many come from wealthy or privileged backgrounds. It’s easier to spend time on something like Youtube when you don’t need to work a minimum wage job to pay rent. Teenagers see the success stories and think there’s a good chance they can do it too, and this magazine is exploiting that. -- source link