Aram Zucker-Scharff

Millennials Feel Trapped in a Cycle of Internships With Little Pay and No Job Offers:

Call them members of the permanent intern underclass: educated members of the millennial generation who are locked out of the traditional career ladder and are having to settle for two, three and sometimes more internships after graduating college, all with no end in sight.

This only happens because you let it happen. Don’t take the unpaid internship. Don’t let them tell you your work is worth nothing. When given the choice between giving your work away to someone else and doing it for yourself. Do it for yourself. Start a blog. Tumble. Make your own work and put it out there. That will get you way more respect anyway.

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