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DEBATE: Internships
As years of education for students slowly and gradually come to an end, the itch to learn what eventually might become your future gains strength. Glimpses of what you want your future to be, or maybe what not to be, can be a possibility through internships. As the summer break begins its course, students strive to search for recognized institutes to work, or in more proper terms ‘intern’ in.
The only job students would most probably know about is their own father’s or mother’s, or at the most an uncle’s or an aunt’s. You might be interested in what these people do, and make up your mind to pursue the same career one-day, without having any idea if it is as easy as it looks. You haven’t yet been through the pressures, the long hours, and sometimes the weird people. This is why you still need to live that working life for some time, which in turn just might make you reconsider, or maybe just encourage you to keep on going.
On the other hand, maybe what your parents do, is not at all what you want to get stuck with for the rest of your life. You cannot imagine being a manager of a firm, or a restaurant or a telephone operator. You want to do more, or just something different. Internships can help you set a goal, see other jobs, try out other careers; and get an opportunity to test a whole world of choices for the future.
It doesn’t take much to do one. For how long are you going to spend your vacations sleeping late and watching movies? Internships sets one’s schedule straight, which is usually distorted due to long hours up and oversleeping. It makes a person value time more. After working, say from nine to five, the rest of the day becomes very precious, and effort is made to consume it well, and make the most of every spare second. Interning will allow you to thoroughly check out job stress, working conditions and working environments. It teaches you how to go about things in an organized manner, because in most cases there is always somebody to answer to. And the initial nervousness usually evaporates as you start getting things done, which results in building up confidence. More so, one job might give you the confidence required to try out others, and test the waters, see if you’re made for it.
Internships, like education, sports and arts, help a teenager discover himself; realize what he’s good at and at what he’s not. It allows a child to see the job, not just as a job, but as a future, and a source of survival. An internship is a window, which helps kids decide what they would like to see and in some cases wouldn’t. You can try a million things, a hundred different institutes until you strike something that you actually like doing. Once you step into the real world, you don’t get to keep switching careers. Right now you don’t have to make ends meet, you don’t have to support yourself or a family, but it won’t be long before you will. By then it would be too late to experiment.
Internships lead students out in the open. Even if for a short period of time, they make you learn a lot and put to test what you have studied all these years. They give you opportunities to interact with a million different people, some of whom you would like and some you won’t. But you will learn to deal with them. Internships help you choose what you want to be and know what you don’t want to be. It will expose you to what may one day become your future, so the more the better, because there are a million and one choices out there, and one of them might be what you are looking for.
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