What is more beneficial?

[Anonymous]

That a 26 year old acquires a professional internship in a corporate setting based on family connections or work a retail job to gain professional skills and confidence?

[Anonymous]

Depends on how much money she has/needs.

[Anonymous]

I think this really needs context to answer. What has the 26 year old's experiences and education been to date? Why isn't getting a professional job an option?

[Anonymous]

If the professional internship is in any way relevant to her career goals, then that's the obvious choice. Any professional internship should give her the opportunity to gain professional skills and confidence. Retail usually doesn't provide the same level of professional skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That a 26 year old acquires a professional internship in a corporate setting based on family connections or work a retail job to gain professional skills and confidence?

Internship in a corporate setting. Retail can teach skills but it won’t build a resume and those skills can be learned elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

The 26 year old should have already had minimum wage experience, back as a teenager. Probably several periods of it. So, certainly at 26, the highest pay/skill job they can get (generally)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That a 26 year old acquires a professional internship in a corporate setting based on family connections or work a retail job to gain professional skills and confidence?

Well, professional skills and confidence can be gained in corporate internships as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That a 26 year old acquires a professional internship in a corporate setting based on family connections or work a retail job to gain professional skills and confidence?

Internship in a corporate setting. Retail can teach skills but it won’t build a resume and those skills can be learned elsewhere.

+1

[Anonymous]

Internship and restaurant at night or weekends. Skip the retail.