<p>I am a senior in high school and we do a one month internship rather than classes for the last month of high school. I am going to major in finance in college and I was wondering if the kind of internship a high school student would get would be worthwhile. Would I do anything interesting or learn anything useful or would it probably just be boring paperwork or something else? I am considering to doing an internship as a Carpenter, because I think that might actually be useful later in life, especially since I will be going to Northeastern for college where I am supposed to have 3 finance related co-ops.</p>
<p>If you really want to try carpentry then do whatever floats your boat</p>
<p>i had a similar program at my school...i got an internship with a big financial services company in a local private wealth management division. i learned a lot and got to do some pretty cool stuff (research different mutual funds and ETFs, calculate benchmark indices for client portfolios, analyze portfolio/fund performance, familiarize myself with some finance software)...granted, I was working with my friend's parents so they wanted to give me a good experience and trusted me to do actual work versus just fetching coffee and filing papers. it shouldn't be too difficult to land a gig like that, but just make sure that you won't be restricted to filing and boring stuff.</p>
<p>What internships are good for a high school student that wants to go into business?</p>
<p>I'm most likely getting one this summer, between my junior and senior years of high school at a hedge fund, run by a good friend of mines father. He really likes me, to the point of wanting his daughter to go out with me, so I'm basically set. Maybe try something at a small local law firm, or accouting firm maybe. Depends on what you want to get from it. I'd rather learn, gain the experience, and get great recs from it.</p>