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I have interns now, and I love having them. I don't think it was because of the 90s. Good interns (who have good mentors) have the heart and passion and remin
by davidu 16y ago
I have interns now, and I love having them. I don't think it was because of the 90s. Good interns (who have good mentors) have the heart and passion and remind me why I love doing what I do. Keep in mind that I started my internship in like 95 or 96 -- long before the dot-com craze really took off. :-)
And FWIW, I think internships are totally underrated. Whenever I saw my friends in high school spending their summer dicking around it always boggled my mind, even more so in college.
I never was an A+ student (though I did okay) but I did always have jobs and worked my ass off when it counted.
- tastybites 16y agoI was also a mediocre student because I was usually out with friends or in front of a computer... although I did somehow end up going to UCSD - you must be talking about the solana beach amtrak station in the article right? :) I took the Surfliner home to Ventura county many times during my 4 years in SD. Either way though, I just think (could be wrong) it's much more rare to find high school kids doing "real" work these days, like admining production servers or writing software that ships to customers.
- sliverstorm 16y agoI would agree with you, it's getting harder and harder for high school kids to find work other than customer service in retail joints.
- davidu 16y agoIf they are able to get to the Caltrain station in San Francisco (which we are next to), they should email david (at) opendns.com and apply to be an intern. All interns are paid.