As a former coordinator of internships at a state college in Massachusetts, in some future column extolling the benefits of unpaid internships I hope Andy Kessler will enlighten readers on how, as a college junior, he financed his journey “way across the country” to an unpaid internship in Cupertino, Calif. (“Three Cheers for Internships,” Inside View, April 23). How was he able to find an apartment so distant from where his journey began, and one that seemed to need no security deposit? Today’s students are exploited enough without some silly mythology of how entry to the workforce is a snap that requires nothing but will. In a world where executives routinely pull down seven-figure compensation, to suggest that colleges and universities pick up the costs of an internship experience is immoral. How about, instead, Mr. Kessler, a call that organizations put out ads for jobs, real jobs, and tag them with that vanished phrase, “Will train”?

Source: Wall Street Journal May 06, 2018 17:48 UTC