2 basic reasons why people hated their intern experience

These days, it is extremely famous to do internships. Parents, colleagues, teachers at college – literally all of them were convincing me that I should do it as well as that it wouldl be an amazing experience. Unfortunately, I was naïve enough to am convinced them , thus made up my mind to do my internship during the summer break.

The competition for this position was very rough. They tested my foreign languages as well as analytical skills. So, I was entirely convinced that the internship would be something meaningful – probably I may have been too convinced – I should say that I didn’t even question any details of the scope of potential duties.

At that time I was simply so happy with the news that I got the intenrship offer, that I didn’t think to request important information. Back then it was enough for me to know the firm where I was about to intern in. Nowadays I am aware that my attitude was rather a huge mistake. Unluckily, I believe that this lesson was in fact the only useful thing I learnt from this entire experience.

Earlier I thought that during the internship I would learn that kind of knowledge and skills that are transferable also to another similar position. Unfortunately, during this internship I was mainly conducting those tasks that no other employee was interested to conduct. I know that somebody always gotta to do those things , but at the same time I would love to learn something useful during the intrnship.

Sadly, I didn’t. In fact I learnt a lot about NY city and its surroundings as I was helping other employees conducting the most boring things that they did’t want to do. Ironically, I learnt where to do cheap custom printing nyc or where to find best coffee in the town. However I don’t believe that this is the type of knowledge I should gain as an intern.

Second, they didn’t pay me any salary. I am aware that I was not a professional thus I don’t have any precious experience they can need, but I was still doing some things they would pay for their workers to conduct. Therefore, I really think that they should reimburse me at least symbolic amount of money. Only to confirm that they appreciated my commitment.