I remember reading a hilarious article a few years back about federal and state governments hiring lawyers to work as prosecutors for free. That’s right, the prosecutor handling your murder case, your robbery case, your drug case might be rushing to get out of there because he doesn’t want to be late for his shift at Burger King because that’s what’s paying the bills. I’m having trouble imagining the committee meeting where someone proposed this and it pretty much had to have happened at a bar (up to the gills in tequila) or around a bong or something. I realize that it’s probably necessary for budgeting reasons, but I wonder what’s next?
The whole idea of unpaid internships is so silly to me. Unless your family can support you all the way, I’d probably stay away from any job where those things are the norm.
The industry is probably rigged up so that people who don’t have these unpaid internship experiences have little to no chance of getting a job there. The internship doesn’t guarantee you a job, but it makes you competitive for one.