Stuff White People Like - Unpaid Internships

Internship: Any official or formal program to provide practical experience for beginners in an occupation or profession. When I was in college, I knew many people who would do ANYTHING to get an unpaid internship, including spending a lot of money to network to get that internship.

Shock blogger Stuff White People Like, says, if you were to present a white 19 year old with the choice of spending the summer earning $15 an hour as a plumber’s apprentice or making $0 answering phones at Production Company, they will always choose the latter. In fact, the only way to get the white person to choose the plumbing option would be to convince them that it was leading towards an end-of-summer pipe art installation.

White people view the internship as their foot into the door to such high-profile low-paying career fields as journalism, film, politics, art, non-profits, and anything associated with a museum. Any white person who takes an internship outside of these industries is either the wrong type of white person or a law student. There are no exceptions.

If all goes according to plan, an internship will end with an offer of a job that pays $24,000 per year and will consist entirely of the same tasks they were recently doing for free. In fact, the transition to full time status results in the addition of only one new responsibility: feeling superior to the new interns.

So if you're having a margarita at Rio Grande and overhear someone complaining about their internship at Google... Just remind them that after the cost of a summer in the NYU dorms and bottles at Marquee, they are paying a lot for that internship. But then again if you are having happy hour at Rio Grande or partying at Marquee, chance are you are a white person who once had an unpaid internship.

Listen up Interns - Get 8 hours of Sleep!

I know what you're thinking... This is my SUMMER! I want to be out late every night and living up the club scene. But if you think your performance at work will be the same if you get back from Marquee at 4am rather than going to sleep at a decent hour, you're wrong. You NEED sleep if you want to perform well. But of course if you have an internship with a family friend and you don't give a crap about your job or if messing up making copies then go out and have fun!

A technique recommended by the Wellness Blogger Cohen Family Wellness to help you fall asleep is called "4 x 4 breathing". My patients who perform this exercise are getting longer hours of sleep, better quality of sleep, increased energy the next day, and many other health benefits. Here is a step by step guide to perform the exercise.

1) Breathe in for 4 seconds.
2) Hold breath in for 4 seconds.
3) Breathe our for 4 seconds.
4) Hold breath out for 4 seconds.

Interns are GREAT Investments for your Company...

Think you're doing your cousins' best friends daughter a favor by giving them an internships for the summer? Don't just think of offering internships as doing some college kid a favor. Think of offering an internship as an INVESTMENT for you! Think of all the time you could save by having an intern. You can focus much more on your day to day tasks, than actual busy work, like making 100 copies of last weeks selling for senior management.

Here are 6 Great Reasons to HIRE an intern:

1. High return on investment (ROI)
2. Skills reinforcement
3. Renewed energy
4. Test run potential hires
5. Community involvement
6. Excellent PR

Welcome to East Coast Internships!

Welcome everybody to East Coast Internships. This blog is specifically dedicated to the high school or college student seeking an internship on the East Coast.

After having spent many years in the staffing industry, and having founded Jobosity - The Job Blog, I have noticed that decision makers are paying more and more attention to internships. Whether you are getting paid for your internship or not, the key to any internship is having relevance to what you want to do when you graduate. If you want to work for Goldman Sachs, maybe it's not a good idea to intern at Intermix, and vice-versa.

If you are seeking an internship - the first place you should look is East Coast Internships. We will try our hardest to make finding an internship as easy as possible.

Stick with our tips and we'll put you on the path to Success!