white male consumer

In fact, nobody is paying me right now. IN FACT, I’M PAYING THE COLLEGE TO MAKE ME WORK. This is messed up.

Apparently everything next semester is going to go fine. I’m back down to five classes, fifteen credits. But I have a decision to make – whether or not to put off graduating till the summer, and doing an intern program through the school. The downside is that I’ll be paying for three credits as a part-time student during the summer. (When I exactly graduate is no concern to me – it’ll still be ’07, so who cares.)

The positive in all of this is that I’d be interning somewhere, which is apparently invaluable experience (or so everyone says). The advantage of doing it through the school (as opposed to applying by myself) is that there’s some sort of whole program, focusing on writing good resumes, interview techniques, and a whole lot of other junk that sounds valuable. Putting it off till the summer means that I could go anywhere there’s a program. I probably wouldn’t be getting paid, but I could probably pick up a job to support my habits (like eating and having a place to sleep).

Looking at it objectively, an unpaid internship is basically slave labor. But… “Happiness in slavery”?

I don’t know. But getting a staff position at a magazine would be a lot easier with some actual experience.* And my 2-3 clips in Buzzsaw ain’t going to cut it.

*Yeah, so I’ve finally accepted that freelancing isn’t really a viable “career,” especially straight out of college. If I went down that road, I’d have to pick up a “day job” – some menial bullshit. And I wouldn’t write because I wouldn’t be forced to, and I’d be stuck in my “day job” until I died of old age: alone, cancer-ridden, and infertile. So working on-staff at a magazine (any at this point) seems like my best bet.