I remember with NOSTALGIA my internship days in Westie - squeezing in 3 burly chaps in a single room at the UON chiromo hostels (rented it out from a comrade at 700 per month = 230 per person), walking to work, walking back to the mess for 20 bob lunch, timing the ten oclock tea in the office for breakfast, watching office-downloaded movies kwa desktop on Friday night and cooking using "visible" 240 volts! Cant trade those days with anything. I say to those looking on internship - be strong, hardworking, perservere withou complaining coz you are not entitled to anything you haven't toiled for. On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Moses <mosenetk@gmail.com> wrote:
Guys I believe the internship period of about 4 months is a period where a student learns the ways of the real world away from the classroom. As a student you paid your university to study and practice the basics, now you want to learn real life application of your studies in a company that will risk you make novice mistakes on their watch and want to get paid for it?
The allowances paid by companies to interns is a small token to enable them get by and its not a salary or any form of compensation. Globally from Wall Street to Nairobi interns work for free just to get a shot ay a real a life classroom. The fact that some organisations exploit interns for cheap labour is merely a side effect of the high demand for available positions.
A real intern wants to learn and in some cases get graded for it by their college. The allowance should not be an issue.
My 2 cents.
Moses. On 10 Jan 2013 11:13, "Job Muriuki" <muriukin@gmail.com> wrote:
Is this a start-up or its a well established company looking for interns before we conclude. A start-up might have cash constrains while the established company might be doing you a favour. By giving you an opportunity to work for them and gaining experience which most employers look for and will pay good cash for it. This is how I would look at it, if you start a business you mostly pump in cash for a while at times years before getting serious returns. Same applies to interns, its an investment and it will pay off in due time.
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:04 PM, <dhikims@gmail.com> wrote:
Employers should on the least pay a morally fair pay. I agree 10k, is just not the pay for today even if its internship.
My half cent opinion. Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone provided by Airtel Kenya
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