I had a few thoughts based off of this article in The Economist this week. It says that internships are becoming more popular for the millennial generation. I do see this occurring with people graduating and still picking up internships not yet full-time work. I do not see a problem with internships at all, they do provide the average person a look into a field they might be interested in and get experience dealing with problems in business or any line of work. It allows them to meet higher level employees and ask them questions with less friction than an outsider would have.
Yes, it does not pay them very much if at all and sometimes people pay to go to the internship with time, housing costs, or if they use a broker to find an internship. These downsides are not the best and can certainly turn some possible workers off the internship. They will work you and it will be the things that no one else wants to do.
Internships though are great because even though you are the bottom, this position is only temporary and you will learn much from any internship. They are giving you a glance at the workings of their business in exchange for you doing the work no one else wants to do. And no it is very fun to pay to work but with the access and learning that can be accomplished it's a small price to pay for a better position later where you have the upper hand in knowledge about the field. Also, in earlier times people did pay to learn a trade and it was much longer. Apprenticeships are not the same as internships but a close modern day equivalent.
If you have ann internship use it to make friends with people in the office especially those with technical knowledge and ask them questions. You are there to learn and you can learn everything about a company in a few short weeks working there. The biggest thing you might find out is that the company is not the right fit for you.
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