This morning, I saw Chetan Bhagat declare on a podcast:

All young men really want is a job and a girl, and—he added—young women want a man with a job.

When I talked about this with a work colleague who isn’t a fan of Bhagat, he dismissed the idea. But I feel Chetan Bhagat cannot be ignored. He proudly also claims that it is his job to know the pulse of his audience.

Also, I claim to be in the business of communication, and for me not to know the wants and the desires of the zen Z is career suicide.

I was planning to go into colleges and talk to the young on an ideology called community, but this stopped me in my tracks, would they even resonate with the word? In the long run, it might get the young chap a job and a girl, but the community wouldn’t get him a Lamborghini. Then it prompted me to ask myself how do I get to know the young, could Chetan Bhagat be wrong? My interaction with anyone under 25 is almost nonexistent. My work keeps me mostly alone, writing and researching, and the people I do work with are all well over 30, if not 50.

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