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...price tag on the fairness sought in employment practices. If so, it’s clear that the current trend in internships perpetuates inequality and must be stopped. To best remedy this, the United States should eliminate unpaid internships, except for those at non-profits...
...make the transition away from such internships easier, federal funding should subsidize otherwise unpaid positions at non-profits. These organizations often cannot afford to provide their interns with wages, unlike their for-profit counterparts. This funding would allow students of all backgrounds to consider opportunities outside of the profit sector, and most importantly, ensure that high net worth is not a prerequisite for considering public service as a career option...
...attitudinal shift among employers must go hand in hand with changed student focus. Undergraduates should shift their approach toward other ways to learn skills, such as working for non-profits or volunteering. Additionally, meaningful work can be found in jobs that don’t offer fantastic compensation above minimum wage or the prestige of an internship...
Still, climbing the academic ladder with a kindergartner in tow is extremely difficult, so he’s begun looking at administrative positions. Every day he gets an e-mail with non-academic job openings in his field. Sometimes they pay decently, sometimes less so. Rarely are they good options. Today’s offering is with the National Park Service at $37,000 a year. “See, there are jobs,” Sebastián remarks. “But then, this is the problem. It’s in Oregon.” And only...
...admittedly not of a sunny disposition, and I’m pretty sure I’ve awkwardly avoided eye contact with a good portion of the readership of this magazine. Deep down, yes, I do believe that my own work is more important than yours. You have non-thesis work? That’s cute. Oh, you wrote one also? It probably sucks...