Apprentice.at – Apprenticeships, not internships

Re:Apprentice.at – Apprenticeships, not internships by michaelt on Friday August 21, 2015 @04:53AM (#10096550)

  you might just want some practical experience that
  within a few months could actually land you a job
  that provides a decent paycheck.

It always struck me as ironic that student engineers, who are on track for well paid jobs, get offered paid internships; but student journalists, who are on course for poorly paid jobs, are expected to do unpaid internships - or even pay to do internships.

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Re:Apprentice.at – Apprenticeships, not internships by Findy3ti on Friday August 21, 2015 @05:40AM (#10096663)

I am a little confused as to how that is ironic. Strikes me as anything but that

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Re:Apprentice.at – Apprenticeships, not internships by michaelt on Friday August 21, 2015 @07:55AM (#10096926)

To vastly over-simplify our economy, we usually expect people with greater ability to pay to pay the same or more for substitutable goods. For example, people with more money can buy fancy coffee from starbucks, while typically people who can't afford that will make do with instant coffee.

In this case, the people with the greater ability to pay have to pay less.

That seems ironic to me, even though I know enough about the economy to understand why it happens.

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Re:Apprentice.at – Apprenticeships, not internships by spacecowboy_lon on Friday August 21, 2015 @08:32AM (#10097034)

There are far more English lit grads that are competing for any job with a "publisher" or "journalism"

Also newspapers are well known for poverty level wages even when they had 30% profit margin.

A major publisher can pick and chose from ox-bridge grads who got a first.

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Re:Apprentice.at – Apprenticeships, not internships by spacecowboy_lon on Friday August 21, 2015 @08:34AM (#10097041)

sorry where are these well paid engineers?

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