Millennials Feel Trapped in a Cycle of Internships With Little Pay and No Job Offers
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.
“Graduate students seem determined to willingly delude themselves about the neoliberal financial…”
“Graduate students seem determined to willingly delude themselves about the neoliberal financial foundation of graduate education; I’ve found that they are the most deeply invested in the myths of the academic cult. Then they finish their programs and hit the job market. The job market reveals the total insupportability of the entire system.”
kategardiner: Nearly everyone agrees that recent college…
Nearly everyone agrees that recent college graduates are having an inordinately tough time finding work almost five years after the end of the Great Recession. Young people aged 18 to 34 have struggled with double-digit unemployment and account for half of the 10.9 million unemployed Americans, according to government figures.
Now a new study shows there is widespread disagreement between business leaders and young adults and their families over the root causes of this problem, beyond the obvious problem of a sluggish recovery.
Nearly three-quarters of hiring managers complain that millennials – even those with college degrees – aren’t prepared for the job market and lack an adequate “work ethic,” according to a survey from Bentley University, a private business school in Waltham, Mass. (The Surprising Reason College Grads Can’t Get a Job)
“The roughly two-thirds of U.S. students who take out loans to finance their college education can…”
“The roughly two-thirds of U.S. students who take out loans to finance their college education can end up in a situation most resembling the historical concept of indenture.”