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The unpaid origin story of everyone who now ignores your emails.
means A trainee who works at a company or organization, often for low pay or no pay, to gain practical experience in a field.
from From the Latin internus, 'inward, internal,' the same root behind 'internal' and 'interior.' The word first meant 'confined within' — and indeed 'intern' as a verb still means to confine someone (as in wartime internment camps). The medical 'intern,' a resident doctor living and working inside the hospital, emerged in the late 19th century, the idea being someone kept within the institution to learn its workings. From medicine the sense spread to any apprentice taken inside an organization to be trained — and, eventually, to fetch coffee.
- coffee myth
- Most fetch insight, not lattes, despite the stereotype
- word root
- Shares Latin roots with 'internal' and 'confinement'
- big breaks
- Many CEOs and founders started as nameless interns
- legal gray
- Unpaid internships triggered major US labor lawsuits
- medicine too
- First-year doctors are literally called interns
white house internship program — annual program hosting ~100 interns per session at the executive office of the president
google engineering internship — competitive 12-week paid internship at mountain view headquarters, ~1000+ interns hired annually
morgan stanley summer analyst — 10-week investment banking internship program in new york, recruiting from target universities since the 1980s