After only a few weeks of sending out resumes and letters via e-mail (ah, the new world of job hunting!) Amy has landed a summer internship at Marx Layne & Company, a PR firm in suburban Detroit! I am so amazingly proud of her, you wouldn't believe it. She starts on Friday. Unfortunately, the internship is unpaid, but I am taking the long-term view here and looking at how this will help her land a real, paying job when she graduates in December. Her boss told her that she and the other two interns will be working on the Arts, Beats & Eats festival, which takes place in downtown Pontiac over Labor Day weekend. This is last year's Web site for the festival.
Amy could not be more excited about the prospect of working at a real job in her chosen field for the summer. It's going to be quite an adventure.
Congrats on the the internship. When I was getting my BS in engineering I had internships but they were all paid.
I wonder if its supply and demand or just the (admittedly limited) mind set of engineers might make it too hard to sell the concept of working for free now so they can work for pay later.
Posted by: John | May 29, 2009 at 04:10 PM