Should You Take an Unpaid Internship? (Ep. 147)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Personal Branding, Career, Productivity, Business, Learning, Lifehacking, College, University, Education, 101, Lifestyle Design, Work Smart, Class

4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this episode, we talk about unpaid internships, what to do if you can't afford to take one, and thank you letters. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Listen Money Matters The College Info Geek Community StyleCon NerdFitness Tom's How to Adult Video on Breaking Bad Habits Tim Ferris: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans The Tim Ferriss Show The Best Way to Get a Job: The TAG Method - Charlie Hoehn Is an Unpaid Internship Worth It? Episode where we talk about love letter sites Episode where we talk about scheduling Here's 5 things you should know about unpaid internships! Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey it's Thomas Frank. I've just got a quick note for you before we get into the show.
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0:33.4	Hey everyone we're taking a year off.
0:35.2	Yeah, that's what Martin said.
0:36.6	Oh yeah.
0:37.6	We're going to take a year off to prepare a year's worth of content.
0:40.2	That way we...
0:42.2	We'll be so far ahead. Yeah, we invest so much that we lose sight of the present
0:47.0	Yeah, and then when we have the years worth of content nobody will be around anymore
0:51.0	Yeah, to experience it.
0:52.8	Yeah, that's the number one role of like.
0:54.2	Utterly backfire.
0:55.4	Invest so much.
0:56.7	Think only about 50 years from now and think not in the slightest about right now.
1:01.5	Yeah, well, you know, they talk to you in school about the importance of investing in your future. Yeah. You know we talk over on list of money matters about how it's like very important to invest money, but I think we've been pulling our punches.
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