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Picked the unpaid internship over the paid gig, no regrets so far
Had two offers last month. One paid $18 an hour at a local marketing firm in Dayton, the other was unpaid but at a nonprofit doing grant writing. I took the unpaid one because the job duties matched what I actually want to do. Three weeks in, I've already drafted two real grant proposals and sat in on a budget meeting. The paid job would've had me doing data entry all day. Has anyone else made a similar trade-off for experience over money?
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wright.taylor1mo ago
Three weeks is nothing though. Wait until month six when you're still working 20 hours a week, your card is getting declined at Chipotle, and your roommate is pulling in $18 an hour plus overtime. That marketing firm job probably had a path to a real offer, and data entry turns into coordinator turns into manager while you're drafting proposals for free. Grant writing is also super niche, so if you want to switch fields later you've got unpaid work on your resume that some hiring managers won't even count. I've watched friends take the "experience" route and end up back at square one, just broker and more behind.
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