Is it acceptable to be interning post graduation?
Hey guys I’ve been browsing WSO for a while now and it’s helped me out a lot, also given me a good amount of laughs. My question however is since I couldn’t find it in other threads is, is it normal/acceptable to be interning post graduation. I’m a recent may grad and I completely screwed up the whole recruiting thing. Long story short I thought I wanted to go to law, majored in Econ, spent 0 time recruiting for banking all of sophomore, junior year, and half of senior year because I was so set on going into corporate law... that was until the day I took my LSAT and I’m the middle of it realized maaaan fuck this law shit it’s boring af and I hate it. So here I am 21 going on 22 with a PE search fund internship on my resume that lasted for 2 months in spring and I’m now working as an Equity Research Intern 3 months at a small brokrage/S&T firm that deals strictly with Emerging markets and has clients ranging from the bulge brackets to hedge funds. I’m getting paid minimum wage and I’m working 30 hours a week hoping to bump up to 50. I just wanted to get some advice from the community wondering is this normal? Is this like a good Path to be on considering I didn’t do the whole IB/S&T recruiting thing during college? My goal is to break into sales but 3 months into this job I feel like a failure who doesn’t know what to do. The job I do also isn’t real Equity Research either I’m basically just a monkey who pastes our firms logo and cover sheets onto real research reports conducted by real certified and licensed analysts in the respective emerging market research firms my firm is partnered up with. Positive traits of the job I found so far was that I’ve helped out our capital markets team and did projects for them learning along the way and building a pitch book for company they were trying to sell. Along with that I try to talk to all the salespeople we have at the firm to do whatever they have available so that I can learn. My gut is telling me there isn’t room for growth in my firm and I should jump ship soon. Problem is idk anyone who’d want to hire a recent grad who only has internship experience and 0 years of real industry experience let alone never even set foot in a BB. Any advice would be much appreciated since idk what my next step or move should be. So far the plans been stay at the firm for as long as possible learning as much as I can and jump ship whenever I find something way better and more lucrative along the way.
Thanks for reading the long wall of text in advance lol.
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