Today’s morning
I read two interesting articles about unpaid internships, “Take This Internship
and Shove It” written by Anya Kamenetz and “No Pay? Many Interns Say, “No
Problem”” by Jennifer Halperin. These articles are both about the situation in
modern America, when young people want to work as unpaid interns before
graduating from universities.
Personally I
think that unpaid internship has many drawbacks, such as “overidentification
with employers”, lowering the demand on the labor market (Why do managers find
constant workers, if they can to find interns every time?) and so on. Anya
Kamenetz writes, “Web site, found that 84 percent of college students in April
planned to complete at least one internship before graduating”, and in the end
of her article it’s said that “Interns are like illegal immigrants”. However,
in my opinion, students should find a job that would be paid, because they
don’t need to get special skills before graduating from university and what’s
more, they usually need money for living.
To sum up, I
think that unpaid internship has a huge number of drawbacks, and even though
it can’t be called as a major problem in
the USA, working with no getting any money for it presumably may have bad
consequences for students, therefore, it’s better for them to start getting not
only experience but also money for what do they do.