‘I have no rights, no security, no leverage’: the life of an intern

Cracking insight into the life of an intern on the Frontline Club Blog (full post here)

‘I have no rights, no security, no leverage with which to defend my corner. When I leave someone else is lured in under the same guises I was, the false hope of an exciting opportunity. In reality my typical experience has been characterised by dull, worthless, repetitive, thankless ‘work’. Some organisations know how to ‘play’ the system with a constant stream of interns and tasking them with the same work they really should be paying somebody for, be it part or full-time. I, for one, am grateful when this internship ends and the intellectual sclerosis can stop. Maybe this should form my handover notes to the next intern?‘