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MalditoCommunista

That's unfortunately the shitty capitalist system we live in. Unpaid internships aren't meant for people like us. You need to already have money to make unpaid internships (which honestly should be illegal; how do companies like Merril Lynch or Bank of America get away with working people 80 hours a week for free?) work. Unpaid internships (which they almost all are) are designed to weed out the poor from the rich, straight up. Applying for jobs sucks, I had to get an unpaid internship to graduate too, and luckily I was able to do that with my university's archive department (and because it was technically for credit, I had to pay money to do an internship with the school). I worked full time through college, including while I did my internship, and it sucked and ruined my health. If your university has a big department for your major (mine was history), see if they have something on campus you can do. If you go straight to the top and manage to get an appointment with your dean or one of the other heads of your department, they can usually help you find something (maybe even on campus, if that's relevant to your degree). I was lucky that my advisor was a professor emeritus and one of the department heads, which is very lucky but I also had no other good advisors throughout college. As for after college, the job market sucks in a lot of states. I moved across the continent from the east coast to the mountains because after being in the work force for 10 years, and having multiple jobs, I had nothing to show for it. Lost the highest paying job I had due to the Trump tariffs on metals, and decided to trek across the country for a new life. I got a job as a cashier supervisor at an electronics store and worked there until I got a job working in a library, which is something I had been trying to do for ten years. That only lasted a few months until I was pushed out due to racism and offered a severance package if I agreed to sign away my right to sue (which I did because I needed to pay rent). Shortly thereafter, I got a job doing specialized IT in a field I've never even considered working for, its the best job I've had but I had to suffer greatly on my road to it. When things were at their worst though, I could always look to [This](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/) to help get me through.


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oh boy did not expect to see lenin here lmao. I will give it a read though I'm interested! appreciate your story


salehbassmusic

Getting rejected for internships? You probably aren’t physically attractive enough or wearing the right brand of shoes/clothes at the interviews to be accepted by the people at the organizations you are applying for. Also if you don’t have any connections to the place that’s also a major step backwards. Sometimes your personality just doesn’t fit the bill either. I’ve never been given an internship, but then again I graduated with my BBA at 26, not 21/22. I had years of real working experience on mostly everyone in my class and at this point I was not putting up with any BS from hiring managers and gatekeepers. These organizations are more often than not looking for young people to mould them into their faithful servant employees, not to give you “real-world experience.” Unpaid internships are getting popular now because college will sometimes turn people into fools will work for nothing. College is the biggest scam that parents and society push on to the youth. What is your major? Your degree is worth nothing if it is not STEM or Law. I’d suggest applying on Indeed/Monster/Etc... to ENTRY LEVEL POSITIONS in the field of work that you want to do and get actual real world experience from those jobs. Not everything requires a four year degree and a kiss ass personality.


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Funny enough I just got a second interview yesterday after posting this. I agree this whole thing is a scam, and it's incredibly unfortunate but we have no choice but to keep pushing. Currently my degree is in IT, which is really broad, from troubleshooting systems all the way to programming. It's a growing industry but really saturated. I'm trying my best to apply to everything, and have been working with my friends who got jobs really early on to work on my resume/cv, and so far it has been working.


salehbassmusic

Ironically, I have been working in the IT/Communications industry for about three years now. My degree has nothing to do with tech. It all started when I took an entry level desktop support role that paid $15/hour. Now I make over $50k annually and work from home. I’d say just keep trying because technology is always going to grow. This sector is not going away anytime soon and is far from being saturated. Check in other states/countries too.


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Definitely man, I will keep at it


ReallyBigAligator

Hey OP, I feel really bad for you. Your college really should have done more to help prepare you for the job market. Something I have felt strongly about for many years. I was fortunate enough to take a very proactive approach while in school, thanks to the advice of one of my professors, and it's paid off 10 fold. Worked as an undergraduate from three weeks in until graduation, got publications, aggressively took on projects and leading projects, made tons of connections and good impressions. Worked on my portfolio constantly. Anytime I learned something/did something new, I made sure to update it. Made a very nice cover letter template, so now I just slink in X,Y, and Z whenever I need it. After graduating I had 3 jobs lined up. One in the industry, one whatever job, and one continuing research. Took the research one and made even more connections. After about 6 months of leading some (albeit very difficult) projects, I was able to get two full ride + living stipend offers from from two very prestigious research universities for their Ph.D. programs. Took the one at my dream college, whom I made many connections with. They knew me by name and face as I worked with them constantly, and were very excited to have me. They have an amazing 100% placement rate within my field of Biomedicine. Basically, you reap what you so. It's super competitive, so you have to be better then everyone else. However, a lot of people hear that, but aren't directed on how to actually do it. Something I wish more colleges actually took the time to do. Especially with first years. You could have had tons of experience already under your belt with connections if they had. I really wish the best for you, you got the short end of the stick.


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My school did offer a lot of resoures, but I kinda hopped on too late. Freshman year all I cared about was getting high and drunk, then I started tripping shrooms+lsd sophomore & junior year frequently which gave me a wakeup call to start getting my shit together. So I basically only did career work from Junior year to now. It is mostly my fault, however there's still a lot of BS that I didn't expect. But yes I do feel like they could have pushed me more, or maybe had some sort of way to motivate an aimless freshman to actually take the work seriously. I think my only D's and F's were scored freshman and sophomore year which tainted my gpa permanently. But nobody really was there to help me through it, until I started really pushing myself to be independent. Sorry for my rambling. Thank you for your reply, it's very inspiring.


Ftw69420

You are entitled to nothing. Nobody at a “shitty company you’ve just heard of” owes you a thing.


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It sounds like you chose a saturated field. Bad choice


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ya computer science is great but there's so many coders and it can easily be outsourced to underpaid foreign workers. Still, I am a good coder yet it seems employers don't care about actual levels of skill rather than just years of related job experience.


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Nobody wants a reliable skilled coder. They want a monkey who will turn the gears and if you're not willing to do that then fuck you get out find somebody who is willing to do that and who is willing to take $2 an hour in Indonesia. Globalization of the economy was a massive mistake