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Internships for Talented High School Students?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the after-the-diploma dept.

xeon4life asks: "I'm an Austin, Texas area high school senior with a slight dilemma: I need a job, I don't want what's offered at my age, and internships are not quite open for kids like me. I've recently been reading essays by Paul Graham about creating your own startup and have been motivated enough to convince two of my good friends to go into business with me later, during college. Thus, an internship at this point would be the ideal solution for me now, but nobody is willing to take me as an intern because I'm still in high school. What am I to do?" "People have suggested that I just do what every other good American high school citizen does and take a mediocre job. The problem is, I feel it would be a waste of my talents right now to be stuck folding shirts at the local mall or flipping cheeseburgers when I could be helping develop a cutting-edge game, the next-generation compiler, or even the Linux kernel as an intern. I have a higher than most college students' understanding of concepts, and some real programming experience in languages like assembly and C/C++, but that isn't going to amount to anything if I can never find an interviewer who will at least listen to me. I'd appreciate any input the Slashdot readership can give me."

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  1. Re:Want a job that teaches you what you don't know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You need to eat shit and die you little wannabe. I am so tired of arrogant little high school age shits like you believing (falsely) that they are such gold with computers. Have you ever fucking seen professional code? Shit, I would doubt you would understand code written by most college students you little fuck nugget. Here is another clue, do you think writing scripts for windows machines between the ages of 8 and 16 counts as real programming experience? Were you writing programs that contained tens or hundreds of thousands of lines of code, or even millions? Fuck off. At best you might have one year of "experience" and that is only if you really apply yourself (which I doubt you do). IF ANYONE HAS MOD POINTS AT THIS LATE POINT IN THE ARTICLE MOD PARENT DOWN FOR BEING AN ARROGENT LITTLE SHIT!