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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This may be why my college student has yet to find an internship, because so many kids jump on the internship train in high school. My college kids have steadily worked a variety of lawn care, retail, and other jobs and are behind their peers who have been taking unpaid “internships” each summer. [/quote]

Nonsense. In high school, a real job is better than a lot of unpaid internships, PP. In college, working in one's chosen field is what's important, whether it's billed as a job or an internship, paid or unpaid. Don't let semantics throw you off!

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Everyone keeps saying this, but come on!  I agree scooping ice cream is a good learning experience (getting along with co-workers, disgruntled customers, being on time, doing a job for people who are not family/friends).  But once you have that experience, kind of diminishing returns, and I think valuable to learn/ do something else - see how a lab is run, see what the research grind is all about.  Nobody on this board wants their kids doing menial labor/non-intellectual jobs as future careers (another reason good for kids to experience so you know you don't want to do that long term).[/quote]

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