Dear Duke: Rocky has a major point - pay is not the point! My grandson couldn’t find a job after finishing college in hotel and restaurant management. After a lot of nagging by me and some work on his presentation, he “volunteered” to work at a hotel. After a month of very, very long days busting his butt for no money but free lunch and dinner, he was offered a full-time position at a great salary for a young guy in a fabulous resort city right on the beach! Kids don’t often know what they want to do so a chance at internship helps them decide if they have the skills or if it something they would enjoy, at least for a while. College does not teach kids what real work life is like, an internship does.
The Disney gal, who majored in Hotel management, now works in Disney Worlds flagship hotel, the other gal in the no.2, only after the owner, of the bakery.
Both doing very well - because of internships
To be sure, if the government is ‘worried’ about these poor, abused, interns — you know the REAL reason has to do with lost taxes & fees to the government.