argh

[jazzfish]

I'm personally unfamiliar with the word 'practicum' so I've been describing it as "an unpaid internship."

Noel just pointed out that it's actually worse than an unpaid internship: I'm paying for the privilege of providing unpaid labour. And since I'm not a wet-behind-the-ears college student, they'll be getting a decent amount of actual labour out of the process.

Sigh. At least there's the credential at the end of it.

(Starts Monday, with a week of actually-in-office.)

Comments

[sartorias]

It's a scam that a lot of people cannot afford in order to jump through that last hoop, alas.

[jazzfish]

It is -awful- and I wish it were different, and I am not prepared to make a lot of noise to try and make it so. /:

[sartorias]

Neither is my daughter, who keeps trying to make the sunup to jump her last hoop (internship) but just can't afford to go a year without pay. She's already maxed out on loans, sigh. What a cruel system.

[jazzfish]

ARGH. She has my deepest sympathies.