In August 2011, when Diana Wang began her seventh unpaid internship, this time at Harper’s Bazaar, the legendary high-end fashion magazine, she figured that her previous six internships - at a modeling agency, a PR firm, a jewelry designer, a magazine, an art gallery and a state governor’s office - had prepared her for the demands of New York’s
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and i thought the 28 y/o was too old to be working unpaid internships...but 40? eaux.
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One of the biggest problems with them, imo. An already exclusionary labor market excludes even further when you have to pay to play like this.
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I attend a public city university where probably 75% of people who go there work at least part time, and lots work full time and take a full course load...I don't have a job at the moment and luckily my parents can pay for the essentials while I'm in school but it's still ridiculously exclusionary to expect people to work for no pay in order to get experience~ that doesn't even guarantee a future paid position or any kind of career advancement or educational gain at all.
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I also think it's problematic from a class perspective. Obviously, people who need money/aren't being supported by their parents won't be able to work for no pay. They miss out on opportunities which more privileged students are granted easily.
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And, OT but your icon is fabulous. The Old Kingdom trilogy is one of my favourites ever.
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As soon as I could work, that money was key to my being able to live. Unpaid work was considered exactly that - unpaid labor - even when I lived with my parents. (Now I work in the financial sector on food stamps and hopefully getting state insurance - no internships here.)
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I couldn't have afforded it without funding.
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This....just.....wow.
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