Professionalization of amateurishness

There is a phenomenon I shall call professionalization of amateurishness. On Viadeo, a LinkedIn clone, I found in a professional forum a young French lad profile claiming to be an interpreter of Japanese. To prove his claim he has set a link to a video showing him in action. I have no doubt he is sincere. There is not the slightest humor or tentative to fake. He is genuine, that is, a genuine amateur. The veteran interpreter would scorn at such display of "pretentious amateurishness", but she would be wrong. After all, he is shown in action interpreting for an interview, meaning that he has a client. There are clients that are perfectly satisfied with amateurishness. And yes, it may be the proof that such clients are amateurs themselves. But that's how the world has turned into. A wish is now displayed as a capacity : yes I can do interpretation because I want to, and here the proof on Youtube. You can't beat that. With the youth category in Western countries being now understood as spanning up to 30 years old, amateurishness is feeding the needs of professionals who understand each other. They don't understand me. They don't understand the veteran interpreter, granted they had an opportunity to meet. But both ignore each other, one with scorn, the other as a result of genuine lack of knowledge that there is much better on the service market but that it comes at a different cost. Young people crushed under social scorn at youth - in Europe especially - are genuinely wanting to prove the competences and experiences they are lacking, so much that one Japanese learner in France lamented that he had been investing more than 10 years of his life in this. As he is 23, you can calculate when his investment started. It's not funny though. It's pathetically funny. They are cornered in despair. I was probably pretty bad and amateurish at 23. There was no way to demonstrate it, and no public to genuinely clap at the amateur' s performance. Now there is.