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Monday, April 30, 2007
Intern, or be your own boss?
Marketplace: "In a super-competitive job market, students these days can't afford to go without an internship. But some are skipping that step altogether and starting their own businesses."
4 comments:
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such a great question....i think its becoming increasingly more relevant than it used to be too because there are os many possibilities now, we can do it all and thats in a way refreshing and in a way terrifying... it will be interesting to see the longevity of some of the upcoming college age business folk in the business world...at the same time i do think there are tricks of the trade to be learned both in a "professional" setting and one created on our own...
I think internships are extremely important - or at least working in the industry. By interning you get to learn HOW it REALLY works. They can only teach you so much in school - and it usually isn't so much on the actuality of the real world. It's good to at least intern once - and in this case, then you can start your own business. In the case of theatre, perhaps they liked you as an intern and you now find yourself a pretty nice job.
Trying to start something yourself cold is going to be extremely difficult and risky.
Internship is really an important step from academic life to the industry world... In school, you just have an ambiguous idea about the indsutry, but as an intern, you get to actually see what is going on in the corporation. I suggest internship would be more helpful if we work in the bigger production or company. Because we are an intern with the least amount of the work load or the responsibility, I think it's really helpful we "see-and-learn" the rest of the company works. Starting the own business should come after the intern. I think we can't demonstrate ourselves through the business without actually knowing what's going on.
I have been running my own summer business for the past two years. I just didn't find internships in my hometown that could pay me. So I totally understand the issue of making enough money over the summer for school. I also needed something that was flexible enought for the other things I was doing.
4 comments:
such a great question....i think its becoming increasingly more relevant than it used to be too because there are os many possibilities now, we can do it all and thats in a way refreshing and in a way terrifying... it will be interesting to see the longevity of some of the upcoming college age business folk in the business world...at the same time i do think there are tricks of the trade to be learned both in a "professional" setting and one created on our own...
I think internships are extremely important - or at least working in the industry. By interning you get to learn HOW it REALLY works. They can only teach you so much in school - and it usually isn't so much on the actuality of the real world. It's good to at least intern once - and in this case, then you can start your own business. In the case of theatre, perhaps they liked you as an intern and you now find yourself a pretty nice job.
Trying to start something yourself cold is going to be extremely difficult and risky.
Internship is really an important step from academic life to the industry world... In school, you just have an ambiguous idea about the indsutry, but as an intern, you get to actually see what is going on in the corporation. I suggest internship would be more helpful if we work in the bigger production or company. Because we are an intern with the least amount of the work load or the responsibility, I think it's really helpful we "see-and-learn" the rest of the company works. Starting the own business should come after the intern. I think we can't demonstrate ourselves through the business without actually knowing what's going on.
I have been running my own summer business for the past two years. I just didn't find internships in my hometown that could pay me. So I totally understand the issue of making enough money over the summer for school. I also needed something that was flexible enought for the other things I was doing.
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