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

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.

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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.

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 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.

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.

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?

Depends on how much money she has/needs.

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?