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Indian-origin CMO, 41, Advises Youth To Ditch Work-Life Balance

In an interview with Fortune, Squarespace’s CMO, Kinjil Mathur, emphasized that youth should be willing to work any hours for any pay to gain experience.

By Rashaad Ather
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Getting a job that offers good work-life balance is tough these days, however, Squarespace’s Chief Marketing Officer, 41-year-old Kinjil Mathur, has said In a recent interview with Fortune Magazine that youth needs to be open to do anything for any number of hours for any pay.

Based in New York, Mathur has worked in the tech and fashion industries at Conde Nast, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Foursquare before joining Squarespace. She highlighted the need for innovative approaches to entering the workforce, drawing on her own experiences nearly 20 years ago.

“Every single summer I was trying to find some internship,” Mathur told Fortune Magazine.

She added, “I just wanted to get experience.”

“In my freshman year—and this is dating me—but this is when we used to have telephone books where you had yellow pages that had the name and number of every business and every person in your city,” Mathur said. 

“I went to the business listings and I just started calling up companies and asking them if they had internships available and that I would be willing to work for free.” 

"You've got to be willing to do whatever it takes. I was willing to work for free, I was willing to work any hours they needed—even on evenings and weekends. I was not focused on traveling. You really have to just be willing to do anything, any hours, any pay, any type of job—just really remain open." the US-based CMO said. 

Social Media Reaction:

Online users seem to have taken offence to Mathur's words.

One user wrote, "That's some cold-blooded nonsense."

Another user commented, "That’s flagrant. I’m not even Gen Z, but ima need you to shut that bullshit up, Kinjil Mathur. Read the room."

A third user replied, "@Oriannarosa should have looked Kinjil Mathur straight in the eye, and said "this interview is done because you lack the intellectual maturity to even have a discussion factually". Capitalist Trash like Kinjil are the killers of decent society."

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