At the end of our senior year my school has a month long internship program. Almost everyone does it. You have three types of people: Those who "do" it. Those who do it. Those who DO it. I have problems with all three and the whole intern process in general. Not like I'm not thrilled it gets me out of school but an intern is an overused person... let me explain.
Let's take subject A. my friend, let's call her Laina. Laina decided to get a job working with a local photgrapher. She works no more then 4 hours a day, if at all. Another ex. subject B. Kaitlin doesn't start her internship til 12 and it lasts until 3:20. Subjects C and D, last year, DROVE to California for their internship. That is ALL they did. Subject E, Jesse, is training for a triathalon. Some people just DO NOT take it seriously, take the easy way out, and some, as in Laina's case regrets this. They wish they hadn't, they wish they'd tried. 12-3:20 is not a normal day, we are supposed to be acting as if this was the real deal. 12-3:20 is not the real deal AT ALL. California and a Triathalon. We live in the main line you will end up with a good job. That is just unexceptable.
The easy way is just.... lazy... but what about the other side of the coin. REALLY getting an internship where you get SEVERE real life experience.
First you have to remember my bio info. Fairly-well-to-do area. Can you say Asia, Washington DC, the FBI, Canada, Italy, major congressmen, judges, etc. this list can go on for awhile but so many people have high priority jobs. Jobs where you are staying somewhere else, a large plane ticket is usually involved and you are WORKING. The problem. People MISS their own graduation for their internship. They MISS so much of the end of senior year and all its luxuries for an oppurtunity that isn't as big as it needs to be.
So simple solution. Take the middle ground. Be a typical intern. Local business, your parent's company, local school, etc. But then you hear it again and again. Paperwork, the job noone else wants to do, running papers around, stupid errands and chores... the TYPICAL intern.
Some, like me, are lucky. Although I do end up getting the extra work, I do work with the kids a lot and it is MORE like a typical job.
But still the whole process is bogus...
~Miss. Murphy
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