Do I take the internship? Looking for advice.
Sophomore in undergrad @ college in the NYC area, I was offered an internship at a RE Development company. They are flexible and will allow either Spring or Summer position (both even), they want around 15 hours a week.
My question is this, I want to do this internship for the Spring and find another for the summer (thinking about research division @ a brokerage house). My folks think I can't manage school and the internship during the Spring semester but I think I can manage it (no classes after 11am Mon-Fri).
Thank you
Do it. You need as much relevant work experience as you can get.
100% do the internship. With a schedule like that, you can easily fit in 15hrs/week. Your resume will benefit and that should help with locking down a summer internship (or provide a backup option in staying there for the summer). Prove your folks wrong
Ok great, I wanted to hear this. Only problem is whether they can find out. Does my employer need my parent's consent?
Haha not a chance they need your parents consent. Why are they so against it? 15 hrs should be easily manageable even with a full class schedule. If not, then you really need to work on your time management skills if you want to have a successful career (so this will be good for you regardless). you can easily do 3 days a week for 5-6 hours in the office 12-5ish,which will give yoy some solid talking points for your resume, hopefully develop a few connections with coworkers and pick up few real world job skills while you're at it. I would sell this to your parents, and if not, do it anyway
EDIT: Want to add, try to keep your grades up. Like I said above, should be easily doable working 15hrs a week, but don't let your GPA suffer. Not a good look for future job opps, not to mention proving your parents were indeed correct
wtf? why do you give a shit what "your folks" think?
If this stuff is indicative of how this upcoming generation thinks and acts, then there is definitely hope for people who aren't pussies.
I'm close to my parents, I'm willing to go against their opinions though.
I get where your parents are coming from. They're paying $40k+year for you to get an education and don't want you hurting your academics by spending time on a job. That being said, you need to do both. Your grades are important, but there are a lot of good candidates with good grades. Your experience is what is going to set you apart during recruiting and having nothing but a high school job waiting tables in the "experience" section on your resume is not going to look good.
Who gives a fuck what they think. You're a big kid now. When I was a sophomore in college (mind you this wasn't long ago at all.... maybe a year and a half at most) I got a gig in CRE brokerage and went to school full time. My folks thought I wouldn't be able to handle the load until I came home with my first commission check and a huge smile on my face.
If you're genuinely interested in the internship I'd take it no questions asked. You're still young and this is the time to do it.
Thank you, good point. I decided about two days after I made this thread that I was taking the internship for the Spring. All that's left is to email the company rep and schedule a meeting to go over my semester schedule.
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