Summer Media Internship

Though many students seem to start discussing new topic already, I have some comment on the article about paid internship.  I agree most of the students’ saying that there should be more paid internships to train journalists of future.  About ten years ago, when political and economic crisis happened in Finland, the government cut budgets for all departments except for education.  Now the educational level of children in Finland is incredibly high.  Raising and training younger generation should be the one that the older must not cut the cost but spend money most.

On the other hand, I am now an unpaid internship and very happy to work there.  one of the reasons is because I do not think that I deserve paid internship yet.  Though I am fortunately assigned many kinds of tasks, such as press release, store blog, and translation of documents, I still do not feel doing good enough to be paid.  Internship should be the opportunity that interns, especially college students, realize the difficulty to earn money.  Interns are usually highly motivated, and some of them are very skilled from the very beginning.  However, paid workers have done what they have to do for long tim and been trusted that they could do their job by their bosses.  This difference between full-time workers and interns should be obvious.

What I am saying here my be too idealistic, but internship must not be the object of cutting expenditure but starting point to become independent financially.