The brilliant Upworthy brings us this excellent cartoon on unpaid internships in The Big Apple.
Joseph Lamour sums it up: “In 2005, when I graduated from college, I moved to New York. While I was looking for a job, one opened up that I would have likely tripped my mother to get — but it was an unpaid internship. Being from humble beginnings, there’s no way I could live in a big city without being paid. And unless you actually don’t need a job, who actually can?”
