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Slightly OT: Pay thousands for your unpaid internship...
Daniel Celvi, Photographer
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Schaumburg | IL | United States | Posted: 6:25 PM on 08.09.09 |
->> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/business/09intern.html?_r=1&ref=us
If you didn't read the article, there are apparently agencies popping up that are saying give them 8k, and we'll get your kid an internship. Well, 8k for an internship in NYC. London is 9k.
I'm really glad I won't be fresh out of college in 10 years. The way things are going, it'll cost a quarter million dollars to get your first real job... |
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Vasiliy Baziuk, Photographer
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Rochester | NY | USA | Posted: 2:03 AM on 08.10.09 |
| ->> I think that is wrong. If you do work as an intern you should get paid. Even if it's chump change. |
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Jeff Mills, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Columbus | OH | USA | Posted: 2:54 AM on 08.10.09 |
->> Sadly when there's hundreds of applications all fighting for a very limited number of internships every year, there's little reason for publications to offer to make it a paid position.
I was quite lucky when I was in school because I was able to make a fairly minimum wage during my required internship. Of course I ended up still losing money as my school still charged me full time tuition even though I wasn't setting foot on campus. Somehow an internship counts as 12 credit hours of required course work and therefore is billed as 12 hours.
Sadly as well, in an era when we are seeing staff cuts and layoffs on a weekly basis, the prospects of getting employment after an internship is bleak, no matter how much you paid to do it.
What a kick in the pants that would be. Drop 9 grand on an unpaid internship just to get a front row ticket of your fellow paid staffers getting the axe, and the best case scenario you can hope for is an offer to continue working for free. |
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Daniel Celvi, Photographer
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Schaumburg | IL | United States | Posted: 3:56 AM on 08.10.09 |
->> You know, I'm doing an unpaid internship soon (I think I get a travel stipend...). Sucks not to get paid, but I'll deal with it. Most magazine internships are unpaid, and it's part-time so I at least have time to work on the side. And it is a break into the magazine world, even if a small magazine; a tough break to get and even tougher nowadays. Let's face it: job prospects are grim everywhere, and at least with this it keeps me in the industry, and starts me somewhere in the kind of environment I want to be in.
But man, this isn't even talking about unpaid internships in the media world. This is just any company: they're asking for huge sums of money to work at a place, and not get paid, in any industry. I can't imagine having to spend 8k to work for free...
So instead of just having to drop 60k on your college education, now some people are spending an extra 8k to get an internship. Think about that: I bet some of these people are repeat customers, that's an extra year of tuition if they go for it twice. |
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Jamey Price, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Charlotte | NC | USA | Posted: 10:10 AM on 08.10.09 |
| ->> Just finished an internship. I was compensated for travel. It would have been fine BUT I have a 60 mile commute daily so that was a hole that dug itself pretty fast and the .38 cents per mile I was paid didnt help fill much. |
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Steve Boyle, Photographer
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Philadelphia | PA | USA | Posted: 10:49 AM on 08.10.09 |
->> At the University of Missouri journalism school students pay tuition and one of their required courses is basically an internship in their field; newspaper, broadcast or advertising.
This has been going on since the journalism school was founded in 1908. |
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