{"id":3524,"date":"2012-02-03T12:34:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=3524"},"modified":"2012-02-03T12:34:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:34:43","slug":"mandy-jenkins-leaves-young-persons-job-of-social-media-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2012\/02\/03\/mandy-jenkins-leaves-young-persons-job-of-social-media-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Mandy Jenkins leaves \u2018young person\u2019s job\u2019 of social media editor"},"content":{"rendered":"

via Poynter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

After guiding Facebook pages, Twitter accounts and more since 2008 at the Cincinnati Enquirer, TBD (where we worked together) and The Huffington Post, Mandy Jenkins is moving on.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Congrats and that’s impressive. Why move on?<\/span><\/p>\n

Mandy Jenkins:<\/strong> It\u2019s just a time to move on. I\u2019ve been doing this for a while and it\u2019s increasingly becoming a young person\u2019s job. I want to move past that. My goals, in the end, are much loftier than working in social media.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What’s next?<\/p>\n

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Poynter asks:\u00a0But it sounds like it isn\u2019t going to be \u201csocial media editor\u201d type title? <\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Mandy Jenkins:<\/strong><\/span>Social media and community engagement will obviously be a big part of that<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Alright. Changing roles but doing nearly the exact same thing. At least you’re bringing a lot of experience from the well respected Huffington Post group:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Poynter asks:\u00a0You\u2019ve been at HuffPost about 10 months, how has that been and what did you learn?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not even going to read her answer because all I can think of is that she just finished setting up her email and Twitter accounts and then started looking for work someplace else.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This is not against Mandy or HuffPo. I see this every day in our industry. When are the Millennials going to start holding jobs longer than 6 months? Mandy has worked for a lot of companies<\/a> in the last 8 years but her resume reads like every other Gen-Yer I come in contact with. I left two jobs earlier than I wanted to so I’m guilty of this too but giving someone an interview and asking serious questions like, “What did you learn in your 10 month stint?” is a complete joke. We should stop glorifying these short term job choices. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I respect someone more who stuck with a c-level company for 3-5 years than someone who got hired at Facebook and left 6 months later.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Also, if you call social media a young person’s job but you start at Huffington Post at age 30 doing social media, I think that’s a bit misleading. You define young person as college aged but, for you, that was 8 years ago. 30 is young but not by the definition exhibited in this article. Your definition of young sounds like 26. Starting a social media job at 30, by your definition is an old person job. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I’m pulling at straws now but the general complaint here is that for me to respect someone, they need to actually do something and doing something takes longer than 10 months.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n