Jett Wells, an unpaid intern for HuffingtonPost, has made a very good video about unpaid internships.
The NationJett Wells, an unpaid intern for HuffingtonPost, has made a very good video about unpaid internships…..for HuffingtonPost.
What he found made him angry:
"While working on this project, I became more and more frustrated. It’s a sad situation — it’s become the status quo for many students to take unpaid work and be expected to feel lucky about getting a foot inside the door and happy that their hard work might lead to a paying job eventually. And the trend isn’t restricted to young people — beyond the struggling undergrads and grads right out of college working for free and living with their parents (ahem), there are Americans well into their 30s taking unpaid jobs."
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