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I'm trying to figure out if my sister is a total liar. She's graduating from U of Texas next year with a BS in Supply Chain Management. She's currently working at an internship claiming to make $48k and says another company is in the wings who will pay her $70k, straight out of school.
When I was looking at internships ten years ago, I never found any paid ones. Granted they were in different industries: PR and Radio.
If my sister is truly making this money, I am happy for her, but also very jealous. Does this sound legit? Or a bunch of smoke?
She would lie to make herself sound better. She's a know-it-all-label-loving-high-brow-snob. We don't always get along, she ignores me when I ask her questions and hasn't been forthcoming in the past. I'm getting this info from my mom.
Most internships for in demand careers do pay. IT internships paid back in the late 90's. Internships where the intern wants to break into a highly competitive field such as fashion, publishing, TV, etc. do not pay.
Your sister picked out an in demand field and could very well be getting that as an intern and as an entry level job in that area.
During my last summer in college I was offered an internship in that range for hourly. That was only for a 12-week summer program though, I couldn't actually have worked there for the full year and made $48k. Went with another slightly lower offer for more interesting projects.
How is an unpaid internship legal? Does the intern just job shadow and not really work?
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Our paid interns are always at about $25-30/hour, currently I have two in that range. One is working for the summer, the other is a graduate working for 6 months. They get no benefits, other than paid holidays, if any fall within their assignment.
Maybe, just maybe, knowledge of supply chain management is more valuable to an employer than knowledge of PR and radio. You think?
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