Unpaid Internship

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.