Originally Posted by
Probe
Last time I made coffee at the office, I was getting paid.
I think if I was an HR department, I would probably not hire anyone who interned, anywhere. Too me, it would show the desire to do ANYTHING, even work for free, to jump in front of the Q.
We did get paid. We got tens of thousands of dollars worth of free training (727 Engineer rating and hundreds of hours of time in the sims) and it was just flat out FUN for any college kid who's working towards an airline job vs. trudging through the classes we got to opt out of.
What kind of idiot passes on three months of (often unsupervised) full motion sim time, free dinners, parties, skiing etc. every weekend with a bunch of airline Captains intent on seeing who can buy the most beer, multiple letters of recommendation, an outstanding adventure with a bunch of great peeps from other universities, and the crown jewel - a preferential interview with POSSIBLE bump to the front of the que? The guy who turns his nose up at THAT would be a MORON with zero SA, and an individual not up the job of jet airliner Captain! I mean good Lord, that's one of dumbest things I've ever heard.
If the current internship does not offer such value then that's too bad, but I suspect it's still a great deal and experience for the kids who are selected. It damn sure pays though and that's why it's legal - value can easily be shown.
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