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I had a professor once who told us we should never take an unpaid internship because it devalues our work. As he put it, “working for no money - it’s called slavery”
Try being the recording school graduate that says “I’m not doing any work until someone pays me for it”. I’ll see you in a couple years when I need to ship something or need to buy something from Guitar Center.
The industry is built on slave labor- it separates the hard-working wheat from the entitled chaff. Right or not, it is what it is.
In my project management class final we “hired” interns to get around a budget problem. We said if we had slaves it would be perfect and we would be under budget. Then we realized that college students working for credit was the next best thing. I think we got an A…
