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Internships are basically a required rite of passage if you’re hoping to land a job after graduating from college and don’t mind being an indentured servant for a summer or two. Even if you’re lucky enough to find a place that doesn’t consider “experience” adequate compensation, you’re unlikely to be rolling in dough if you manage to land one that actually pays you a significant chunk of money.
This is especially true if you decide to accept an internship in a major city like one 21-year-old marketing student did when she signed up for a gig in NYC that “only” pays $25 an hour. She decided it would be a good idea to dole out some financial advice about how to survive a week in New York on such a paltry income in an objectively ridiculous “Money Diary” for Refinery29 where revealed the real secret to making it in the big city: having your parents pay for everything.
The anonymous intern’s article was published earlier this week but blew up a couple of days after when a tweet documenting its sheer ridiculousness started to make the rounds.
https://twitter.com/tessabahoosh/status/1019213579944366081
Based on her testimony, it’s actually pretty easy to stay afloat in New York City— at least when your family is responsible for covering all of your major expenses, including:
- $A 2,100 monthly rent
- Health insurance
- Your phone bill
- Amazon
- Netflix
- Spotify
Oh, did I forget to mention the $1,100 allowance she gets every month? Because she gets an $1,100 allowance every month— a fact the article’s original headline failed to mention.
Oops.
If you’ll excuse me, I have to go inquire about how much it’s going to cost to fix the hole I just punched in my computer screen. Maybe her parents will pay for that too.