NY/CT Intern (paid)
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" If you do end up taking a paid internship, it wont be worth it, because it will be at some shit ass studio that nobody has ever heard of and all you will be doing is holding the art directors cock."
lol, yeah, because the small studios are the ones so flush with cash that they can actually pay an intern. That's exactly how it works out!
Look, a megastudio like Pentagram isn't going to pay you shit, and you probably aren't going to learn shit. It's resume filler for you, and it's a coffee getting gopher for them.
A tiny studio also is going to be more like slave labor. No, they can't afford to pay you.
But come on, you cunts have read Goldilocks. Find a studio that's just right. Not too poor they can't pay, not too big that their egos give them the superpower to render interns invisible coffee-fetchers. You're not going to get a valuable experience at a big firm. Maybe at a tiny firm. But you should be shooting for a medium sized firm, looking to grow, and needs more hands on deck.
That sort of firm can at least swing minimum wage.
It really comes down to respect. Who wants to work for a company that can't even respect its interns enough to make sure they can eat?