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Buying Your Kid an Internship [#permalink] New post   28 Jan 2009, 08:16
Here's a ridiculous trend about how parents are helping their kids to get internship experience..

Faced with a dismal market for college summer internships, a growing number of anxious parents are pitching in to help -- by buying their kids a foot in the door.

https://online.wsj.com/article/SB123310699999022549.html

Anyone wish if we can buy MBA internship as well?
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Re: Buying Your Kid an Internship [#permalink] New post   28 Jan 2009, 12:30
Interesting. I wonder if they'll make companies like that for MBA internships? Ugh.
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Re: Buying Your Kid an Internship [#permalink] New post   28 Jan 2009, 12:31
isa wrote:
Interesting. I wonder if they'll make companies like that for MBA internships? Ugh.


How much will you pay if we can buy summer internship for MBA?
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Re: Buying Your Kid an Internship [#permalink] New post   29 Jan 2009, 06:52
My parents never helped me get an internship. However, I did work for my father's consulting company until he decided to sell it and retire early....and he ended up having to fire me ON MY BIRTHDAY. True story.
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Re: Buying Your Kid an Internship [#permalink] New post   29 Jan 2009, 07:37
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....and he ended up having to fire me ON MY BIRTHDAY. True story.


Is that the reason behind all the waitlists? :shock:
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Re: Buying Your Kid an Internship [#permalink] New post   29 Jan 2009, 08:26
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My parents never helped me get an internship. However, I did work for my father's consulting company until he decided to sell it and retire early....and he ended up having to fire me ON MY BIRTHDAY. True story.


So you're saying that it was the best birthday ever? No but seriously, that's sad :(
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Re: Buying Your Kid an Internship [#permalink] New post   29 Jan 2009, 08:28
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isa wrote:
Interesting. I wonder if they'll make companies like that for MBA internships? Ugh.


How much will you pay if we can buy summer internship for MBA?


Even in college, I found the concept of paying to work to be pretty strange. I can't imagine myself willingly paying to do that.
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Re: Buying Your Kid an Internship [#permalink] New post   29 Jan 2009, 08:58
isa wrote:
Even in college, I found the concept of paying to work to be pretty strange. I can't imagine myself willingly paying to do that.


Technically, we all paid for internship.

There are those internship for credit programs where you receive college credit ...

But to receive those credits, you have to pay school just as if you are taking a class...
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Re: Buying Your Kid an Internship [#permalink] New post   29 Jan 2009, 13:11
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Technically, we all paid for internship.

There are those internship for credit programs where you receive college credit ...

But to receive those credits, you have to pay school just as if you are taking a class...


Yea I didn't do any of those :)
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