Take This Internship and Shove It by Anya Kamenetz

â€Å"Take This Internship and Shove It† by Anya Kamenetz is about the declining state of jobs for new college graduates or current college students. Anya Kamenetz is attempting to prove that internships, particularly unpaid internships, are part of the problem of new graduates finding employment in their field of study. Kamenetz is also trying to prove internships are harmful to the job market in general. Kamenetz describes internships as â€Å"fake jobs† and states internships cause low wages and decline in young workers being part of a union. When an employer can hire someone for free he or she is more likely to do so instead of spending company money on a paid employee. Employers get away with these practices because with an already†¦show more content†¦Kamenetz uses an example of working as a waitress where someone will learn responsibility and how it feels to â€Å"contribute value to a larger enterprise† (Kamenetz). The main warrant of this a rticle is that unpaid internships are destroying career opportunities for the current generation. Kamenetz thinks these two issues are connected and she uses plenty of facts to back up the speculated connection. Although, the warrant seems truthful based on the facts given, where were these facts found and are they are correct? The sources aren’t given except a website name, Vault, generic terms like newspapers and business magazines, Britain’s National Union of Journalists, and various uses of surveys. It is difficult to take these facts as absolute truth without support for them. Anya Kamenetz is currently a staff writer employed by Fast Company magazine in Brooklyn, New York and writes for Tribune Media. At the time â€Å"Take This Internship and Shove It† was written, she was employed as a column writer for Village Voice (DIYU). There is definitely a bias in this article which was discovered through research and inference. Previous articles and books written by Kamenetz show a bias on the behalf of disagreeing with how the future has been molded financially for young adults. Without even reading her book â€Å"Generation Debt: How Our Future Was Sold Out for Student Loans, Credit Cards, Bad Jobs, No Benefits, and Tax Cuts for Rich Geezers†, one can infer, by the wordShow MoreRelatedInternships Do More Harm Than Good965 Words   |  4 PagesInternships do more harm than good What is an internship? An internship is a work-related learning experience for individuals who wish to develop hands on work experience in a certain occupational field. Most internships are temporary assignments that last approximately three months or up to a year. After reading the essayâ€Å" Take This Internship and Shove it â€Å" by Kamenetz Anya who graduated from Yale University, I agree with her that internships do more harm than good because of the opportunity costRead MoreBenefits And Benefits Of Soliciting Internships973 Words   |  4 PagesApproving Internships Internships give people a good opportunity for getting a job in the future. Internship students are not getting paid from the company who has hired them. Even though, people do not like internships they will get the experience from that job. Having this internship is helping people understand how the real life job is. People are even building a reputation with others. For example, people are getting noticed from others companies. Internships helps students to take the next step