In a supply and demand world, this Gen Y personality should stop complaining and seize an opportunity.

In a recent TruthOut article, “The Social Networking Job” author Aaron Lake Smith pokes a lot of fun at the recent trend of successful companies, like Pizza Hut, employing twenty-something social networking gurus to help spread their product’s message. Lake Smith more or less blames baby boomers for taking advantage of these talents and not offering meaningful employment to his generation. While companies might not always have the warmest, fuzziest intentions of using social media, the author fails to realize many people have turned their generational expertise into that meaningful career. Ask anyone who was “taken advantage of” during the ’90s internet revolution or the rise of computers twenty years prior.

The SSN Take: Don’t complain when you have a marketable skill, use it to your advantage.

Patrick Roland, April 7, 2010

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