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Re:Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers by smabie on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @11:47AM (#24639997)
Pretty much all lucrative career paths have pretty well paid internships. Anecdotally, I've never met someone who's taken an unpaid internship. Of course this sample sized is bias as I work in finance and most of the people I know do as well (some tech as well).

What kinds of industries have no pay internships?

Re:Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers by CalRobert on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:40PM (#24640652)
Basically everything in the humanities, museums, etc.

Although those jobs tend to be low-paying and insecure as well.

Re:Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers by ghaff on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:29PM (#24644139)
Or they're real lottery jobs that may effectively require volunteer/low-wage dues paying.

But, in any case, internships that don't pay or pay minimally tend to indicate a field that you probably won't earn a lot in anyway.

There are probably exceptions with some summer jobs where the pay may not be a lot but it looks good on a resume in a field that does pay good salaries.

Re:Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers by asdff on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @06:20PM (#24644700)
Kids going into medical school will often volunteer in research labs or shadow doctors for free during undergrad. Schools won't consider kids who haven't done this.
Re:Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers by JamesBarney on Thursday October 01, 2020 @11:55AM (#24652374)
There are also paid ways to do this as well like being a medical scribe.

Also if you're poor there much bigger barriers to being a doctor than an volunteering. Like the decade of unpaid schooling. Or remove the need for an undergrad degree for doctor's like the rest of the world.

Re:Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers by AdrianB1 on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:59PM (#24640908)
It is very different from continent to continent and country to country, but the not paid internships I know are for positions that prepare you for tough to get jobs or where the training the intern receives is far more valuable than the work the intern does. Some internships are closer to free schooling in a company with the option to get hired after 3 months. There are bad companies that use internship as cheap or unpaid labor, but that's the abuse of the system, it does not means it is always bad.
Re:Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers by Pet_Ant on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:12PM (#24640305)
I believe film and media. I guess those are only well-paid for a few. A search for "unpaid internships" brought up PR. I'm guessing it would appear more often in industries where networking is much more important and job mobility is lower than in STEM.