Being an Intern

Why don't the university's within help their students fine paid jobs?

Interning is a waste of money or possibly a great investment... It depends on who you work for.

The school DOESN'T help you get the internships. Sometimes the classified ads get to you weeks after they were posted. If you are smart you'll google how to get it for free ahead of the other students in your class.

The internships are always upaid. In fact you are required to pay X-amount in "credit" to be an intern. The minute you get to be an intern you get treated really bad. Maybe the heads of the office don't realize what they are doing but every internship there was that person who gave me stupid tasks to do.

Internships are abusive mentally at times. If you do well they push you harder. Almost as if you need to pass the hazing test before you get the OKAY to go to another company as an assistant because your company won't hire you.

The point is that a student from a poor or middle class family has little to no chance of being successful without going the internship route.

Even harder for the student who can't afford to be an intern. That student gets more in debt. They have to take out more student loan, borrow more money and work up to 3 jobs just to make rent.

Once there was an assistant who sat me down and was questioning what I wanted to do. Clearly as an intern you don't know but I had an idea. I want to be a director. I logically went to two top agencies as an intern. I wanted to learn how the office works, how they pick writers, how they pick scripts, and what is needed for successful producing.

The office isn't my place I learned. That took me 4 internships to learn that. I've decided to go back to school pay $40,000 to attend a private school that has a big name. A name bigger than Florida State University "film school"

In a year I'll have a MA, hopefully a job with summer vacations. This is great too because I will be able to direct my own financed work.