internships

Bosnia And Herzegovina
September 22, 2022 4:18am CST
i graduated from college few months ago and the next thing i'm supposed to do is: find a place where i'd do internship for one year. i can get a job in my field only after i do that internship. but the thing is ----> this internship won't be paid, or i'd be getting like 250BAM for it (about 125USD). some companies offer more, but i haven't seen them post anything about it. and that's why i don't wanna do it. i don't want to work for free and i'd rather do a random job but get paid normally. am i dumb? maybe what's the situation in your country? is internship a thing or you can start working immediately after school/college?
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Cristy
@magallon (19279)
• Philippines
22 Sep 22
My youngest child is having his on the job training now. Good thing it is OJT from home and that makes him save in transportation and food expenses. Another thing is he is receiving a compensation from the company even if it is just a training. It is just a little amount but good enough because not all companies accepting OJTs are giving compensation.
Cristy
@magallon (19279)
• Philippines
27 Sep 22
@aureategloom 300 hours i think
Yumeko
@aureategloom (9640)
• Bosnia And Herzegovina
22 Sep 22
that's good, i guess. how long does he have to do it?
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
22 Sep 22
A lot of internships in the US are done for free, too. I don't know how the person pays their bills while they doing free work. I already had a job before I went to college, so didn't do an internship.
Yumeko
@aureategloom (9640)
• Bosnia And Herzegovina
22 Sep 22
and how long do they take? also one year? the thing here is - it's difficult to find a job and it's easy to find internship (because it's not paid probably) and when you're done with it - you're unemployed and can't find a job, no matter the performance in the institution where you were doing your internship. it just doesn't guarantee you anything and that's why i feel like i'd be wasting my time doing it.
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@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
22 Sep 22
@aureategloom Some of them... I'm not the best person to ask. I didn't do an internship.
Ric Angelo
@MrDenata (12248)
• Indonesia
22 Sep 22
Yes, Interships in Indonesia mostly are done for free but they will give you like transportation fee or lunch fee. You will get a lof of benefit when you get Intership in Big Company i tho
Yumeko
@aureategloom (9640)
• Bosnia And Herzegovina
23 Sep 22
hm so it's not much better in other countries either...