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Lessons Learned as a 24-Year-Old Intern
Ali Turner is a professional writer and career blogger. She’s also the managing editor of Campuses to Careers, a blog that helps young people make informed career and education decisions. Topics covered on the blog include careers for shy people and how to follow up on a job application.
I am now proud to say that I was a 24-year-old intern. But I didn’t always feel that way. After graduation and struggling to find job prospects in this dismal economy, I decided to take an unpaid internship at an international non-profit. I knew that I needed more experience, and I decided that an internship related to public relations, the field I wanted to get into, was better than something completely random.
My admission to being a post-graduate intern was met with a little shock and even some snickering and eye-rolling. This negativity mostly (but not always) came from members of the older …