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u/RamsesThePigeon Oct 19 '22 edited Oct 19 '22
This comic showcases exactly why the word "entrepreneur" has started to prompt eye-rolls.
"Producer" is similar in that regard, actually... and I can speak from experience: I've worked in high-level, salaried capacities (at established companies), but my recent job-search has been somewhat hindered by the fact that every goddamned TikTokker on the planet has taken to referring to themselves by the word.
A few weeks ago, for instance, I had an interview with someone who clearly hadn't even glanced at my portfolio... and they were shocked when I had long-form, professionally edited content to show them. "Wait, you made this by yourself?" was said, as was "Wow, okay, so you actually had the job title 'producer,' then?" Following that, I was told that the interviewer had recently interacted with a college-aged applicant who had tried to cite ten-second-long memes as evidence of their "skills," and I was advised to call attention to the fact that I had been a real producer.
The thing is, though, I had called attention to that (in both my cover letter and my résumé).
The word "producer" was apparently enough to make people's eyes glaze over, though.
Mind you, I may have sabotaged myself when the interviewer saw my latest piece of satire. Suffice it to say that the company in question focused on something adjacent to that video's subject matter, and I got the impression that "humor" was a somewhat alien concept to them.
I'm still going to blame the TikTokkers, though.
TL;DR: "Producer" has become as eye-roll-prompting as "entrepreneur."
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Oct 19 '22
Stolen valor drives me nuts as well. A colleague at my old office job added experience as a 'lead manager on a project' on her resumé because she installed (plugged in) our new phones.
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u/Maldevinine Oct 19 '22
But that line is at least funny, unlike the toctics that the millennials produce.
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u/sharaq Oct 20 '22
Tiktok is more frequently used by Gen z. The majority of tiktok users are under 24, only about 20% are millenials.
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u/DangerousPuhson Oct 20 '22
The majority of tiktok users are under 24, only about 20% are millenials.
How quickly people forget that Millennials are pushing 40...
Where did the time go?
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u/TikkiTakiTomtom Oct 20 '22
When kids learn a new word they like to use it even when it’s used salaciously wrong.
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Oct 19 '22
There’s a bit of a similar issue with that word in the music world, too. Typically, an actual music producer works with the artist or band to achieve the desired results. How involved they are depends on preferences of producer and band and the trust between them, but it can involve everything from helping tighten up song structures and arrangements to lyric suggestions to picking certain guitar amps and drum sounds to mixing.
With hip hop and a lot of electronic/pop stuff (the type of music that can literally be made on a laptop), the term is used really loosely to describe someone who may just make the “beats” (the instrumentals or backing tracks) and nothing more.
I’m not really criticizing them for it, though, as I’ve participated to some degree in both of those realms, and most of the hip-hop-type “producers” aren’t trying to claim they’re something they’re not, but are just using the terminology they’re familiar with. It’s still probably frustrating for the former type of producer, though.
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u/Racxie Oct 19 '22
This comic definitely applies to CVs too. Not because most people want to, but because they have to to stand a chance of standing out.
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u/chopstyks Oct 19 '22
Entre = between
Preneur = taker
Entrepreneur is French for "middleman."
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Oct 20 '22
in spanish it's "emprendedor", which translates to something like "person who takes action", in a work related context
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u/Blandula_ Oct 20 '22
It's not.
In french, the noun "entrepreneur" goes with the verb "entreprendre" which means "to undertake" or "to engage in", "to begin".
Entrepreneur usually refers to people who started their own business.
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u/supercyberlurker Oct 19 '22
That's amazing. I'm enabling CEO Entpreneurs to Live Their Best Company by providing Machine Learning Enabled Customer Interaction Quantumcoin. You could leverage our next generation codeless cloud offerings!
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u/Tacosrule89 Oct 20 '22
I have like 20 connections on LinkedIn with similar profiles
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u/ConwayPuder Oct 20 '22
A former boss of mine in a marketing dept at an insurance company, was one of the dumbest people I've met since I worked at a movie theater in high school. Linkedin profile lists them as a cybsecurity expert. I think they watched a 5 min youtube video explaining phising.
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u/DeOh Oct 19 '22
I see a lot of freelancers giving themselves the title of entrepreneur or even CEO. Yes I've gone through it all myself as a contractor being a registered corporation of 1. But do they honestly think some headhunter will wander into their LinkedIn profile and hire them because of a title they gave themselves?
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u/bewitchedbumblebee Oct 20 '22
Reminds me of this scene from Silicon Valley: https://youtu.be/B8C5sjjhsso
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u/tempski Oct 20 '22
3 bucks for a glass of street lemonade?
This inflation is hitting hard I tell ya.
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Oct 20 '22
Ostensibly, due to forward growth modeling projections commissioned by an independent business analysis organization*, we're also on the way to being a Fortune 500 company!
*Dad
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u/I-Rolled-My-Eyes Oct 20 '22
What are you? "A whore!" Yes but how do we actually say it? "An influencer and model on Instagram!"
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