There is a job opening! It seems perfect—full time, in the non-profit sector, based in New York City. It's obviously a prestigious position—they're looking to hire someone with at least a masters’ degree, though in certain cases this can be interchangeable with five years of related work experience. There's only one small problem: it's unpaid.
According to statistics from the National Association for Colleges and Employers, the number of students at four-year colleges who took internships increased from nine percent to more than 80 percent between 1992 and 2008. Once the economy crashed, and a paying job became a luxury rather than a fact of life, many jobs were re-packaged as internships, promising experience and career connections in exchange for free labor...."
I had to do an unpaid internship that was required for me to graduate. It sucked. Spent 16 hrs a week away from my PAYING JOB so I could spent $10 a day parking at the hospital because I didn't feel safe walking 1/2 a mile there(free parking was about that far away). So not only did I not get paid, I had to pay the hospital for a service. Yey me. :|
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That's how bad it is in the U.S. You have to have a Master's degree to get a job that is unpaid, so that sometime maybe, you might get a job.
It's horrible how we're treating our college graduates.
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