We all want to get that experience of a real work place. A taste at how the corporate world will feel like after graduation. So, you apply at that place that you think will retain you after you have graduated. There is a lot to be desired at internship places, but there is that one thing that will take place at work that you were not warned about before starting that pro bono work.
The Boss guy will throw advances at you.
It does not matter whether your dressing is descent or not. Some guy at the top of the ladder will always want a piece of you. He will be looking at you seductively and hoping that you will look back. He will throw advances at you, do you favours, free lunch, or give you an allowance from his pocket yet his motive is clear.
They will over work you.
It is a good opportunity to work for free sometimes, you will get to meet your role model, perhaps your future clients too. The hard reality that will hit when interning is that you will be overworked. It is like as if there is no appreciation for the little that you will have done. You are going to do much.
There is actually nothing to do.
Sometimes intern is a but a waste of precious time. You will have a corner in the office, if you are lucky a whole room to yourself. But you will not have what to do. There will be a resemblance of business but you will not be doing anything. Work is occasional. Office can be so “dry.”
You wil become a messenger.
The sort of work many of us will get is go-here go-there kind of work. You will be sent to drop letters, probably take the kilo of meat your boss bought to his house wife at home. Buy airtime and all sorts of small errands from anyone that has power over you.
The work you will be doing is not connected to your course.
You are a Human Resource student hoping to be given human resource kind work. You want to be given the opportunity to look and review the CVs of the job applicants at your work place. Many strudents out there are facing this reality, but the work you will be doing might or might not be connected to the work the lecturers say you will be doing after graduation.
They have always told us that the courses we do at campus will not get us the jobs we hoped for. You will know someone who knows someone who knows the person that will employ you. But doing internship is the best thing that could ever happen to a student that has not yet graduated. It may not be the kind of work you hoped for, the environment for that matter but there is always something to learn.
