I was a forever intern, and here’s what I learned

Jan 30

Published in Vice

Internship culture is out of control. I’ve done 11 of them over the last eight years, most of them in news media. I’ve written copy for 16 cents a line for a local newspaper in Germany, covered campus culture for the Huffington Post for free when I was 20, and picked up packages for colleagues at a Los Angeles-based publisher when I was 22. Along the way, I’ve learned some things that could have saved me the occasional breakdown.

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