You remember funemployment, no? It was a thing a few years ago when young people discovered that being jobless and desitute wasn't so bad after all because freedom. Now they've stumbled upon something even more awesome---the responsibilities of a job and the liberating effects of destitution:
Journalist Hannah Seligson interviewed several young college graduates in Washington, D.C. and discovered that more and more grads have become “permaterns”---serial interns who are usually in their twenties. Kate, a 25-year-old Ivy League school grad, told Seligson that she’s had three unpaid internships since moving to DC and pays her bills by working as a restaurant hostess three or four nights a week. Kate’s story has become the new norm, Seligson says in an interview with The Daily Ticker.---Baron V“Interns have replaced the entry level employee,” she says. The millennial generation "was hardest hit by the recession. Young people are taking internships because they can't find a full-time job.”
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