For Free or Not For Free: That Is The Question

Sometimes it’s very hard for students to find any good job right after graduation because they have no experience. However, they’ve found the solution of this problem. Students work in unpaid jobs to gain experience for their future profession. The articles “Take This Internship and Shove It” by Anya Kamenetz and “No Pay? Many Interns Say, ‘No Problem’ ” by Jennifer Halperin are dedicated to this problem. The authors have two opposite opinions to this problem. Anya Kamanetz thinks that such experience has many disadvantages, whereas Jennifer Halperin thinks that students can gain many useful skills.

The author of the first text causes many arguments against working for free. Firstly, she says that students working in unpaid jobs lost their potential wages. She continues that some internships even cost money, and because of this if students borrow money for their education in college, they are going further in debts. Secondly, she say that the quality of such jobs is doubtful because it is just a simulation. Also author adds that US loses a lot of money due to unpaid internships. Moreover, she says that interns are similar to illegal immigrants because, as students work for low wages or even without any paycheck, they keep wages down and patch up the gaps left by job cuts. Well, most of her arguments are true, but I don’t agree with her attitude to this problem.

Jennifer Halperin has opposite opinion. She says that unpaid internships are an important lesson in the concept of caveat emptor. You gain indescribable experience. It helps employers to find appropriate employee because such practice shows that you are serious about the career. You can learn the things that you wouldn’t necessarily learn in a classroom. I agree with all of these arguments and I follow her opinion. Moreover, I think, these arguments are not single – there are more pluses in such experience.