Paid or Unpaid, that is the question.

Graduation is less than a month away, and there a million and one decisions that have to be made in a short period of time!

One thing I believe is on the mind of a lot of students graduating: Is taking another unpaid (or barely paid) internship after graduation the right decision?

This is an increasingly pertinent question, with many articles popping up, like the NYTimes Article: The Unpaid Intern, Legal or Not?

What makes more sense? Taking a full time salary job that's so so, or taking an unpaid internship in the industry you want to be in, doing what you want to do?

What's more important? ...money? experience? networking? benefits? Are times so desperate that we should give in and have the "take what you can get" attitude?

I feel like that is the attitude many older adults are pushing on us...but I guess I'm like a hopeless romantic when it comes to my career, and I have faith that someday a perfect job will come and sweep me off my feet, and carry me off into the horizon with benefits and a 401K in tow!

(cartoon care of toothpaste for dinner!)