Does this concept remind anyone else here of a Big Wheel? The way the rider spins out in the concept video brings to mind summer days of riding my big wheels down the biggest hill in my neighborhood, pulling the brake @ the bottom trying to spin out like the kids in the commercial, wiping out & destroying my knees & elbows in the process.
It was my experience while I was in college that most larger tech companies offer compensation for their interns. I worked for Honeywell for the 4 years I was in college, and they paid me a pretty decent salary, AND they put me up in a corporate apartment during the times I worked for them. I also accrued benefits based on the amount of time I had worked for the company like any normal employee did. A lot of my other classmates had jobs like this. I think internships are completely different outside the techie field though. The company I work for now pays the interns we have in to work on our network, and the programmers, but the graphic design artists we have for interns are not paid, they just get jobs to add to their resume.
The difference between the paid and unpaid internships I think is this: in a field that puts more emphasis on past accomplishments (like graphic design or journalism), college kids take internships for the "experience". And in a field where you either know what you need to do or not (like programming or networking), you have provable skills that can be the basis for hiring.
OK, now that I've rambled on entirely too much, I'm going to go back and keep reading other opinions
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Does this concept remind anyone else here of a Big Wheel? The way the rider spins out in the concept video brings to mind summer days of riding my big wheels down the biggest hill in my neighborhood, pulling the brake @ the bottom trying to spin out like the kids in the commercial, wiping out & destroying my knees & elbows in the process.
It was my experience while I was in college that most larger tech companies offer compensation for their interns. I worked for Honeywell for the 4 years I was in college, and they paid me a pretty decent salary, AND they put me up in a corporate apartment during the times I worked for them. I also accrued benefits based on the amount of time I had worked for the company like any normal employee did. A lot of my other classmates had jobs like this.
I think internships are completely different outside the techie field though. The company I work for now pays the interns we have in to work on our network, and the programmers, but the graphic design artists we have for interns are not paid, they just get jobs to add to their resume.
The difference between the paid and unpaid internships I think is this: in a field that puts more emphasis on past accomplishments (like graphic design or journalism), college kids take internships for the "experience". And in a field where you either know what you need to do or not (like programming or networking), you have provable skills that can be the basis for hiring.
OK, now that I've rambled on entirely too much, I'm going to go back and keep reading other opinions