I’m not sure when unpaid internships became a “thing” but just like KONY and Ebola, they must be stopped. And this whole “you’re getting paid in experience” line we’re all being fed, is bullshit. (sorry Mom) The next time you go to the grocery store and want to buy your food for the week, see how much “experience” they charge.
Or better yet, try explaining to your landlord that you won’t be paying your rent by check or cash, but would prefer to pay in experience. That’s how you end up homeless and hungry…or worse, back at the family farm in Idaho. And let me tell you something, unpaid internships are about as good of resume boosters as listing Microsoft Office as a skill. Anyone can use Word and anyone can get an unpaid internship, when it comes to free labor companies are less picky than Taylor Swift is with boyfriends. Don’t buy into the whole “We’ll help you find a job after you graduate,” or “I was an intern and I got hired,” because the only lie bigger than those is when a guy tells you to “come over we’ll JUST watch a movie and cuddle.” NEWS FLASH if they didn’t have time to cut you a check every two weeks, they don’t have time to go find you a job. Slavery waited 150 years to have a movie made about it so I guess the silver lining is that in the year 2162 we’ll have a new blockbuster hit called, 3 Months An Intern.To all the unpaid interns out there, we’ve all been there and I’m sorry to break the news to you, but you’re a glorified volunteer.