Magazines vs Money, Because Clearly You Can't Have Both

Meghan sent me this link to an old story on Stuff White People Like about unpaid internships. Like everything on that site, it's sickeningly accurate and will make you feel like an idiot. Take these two passages as examples:

"You would assume that the most sought after internships would be in areas that lead to the greatest financial reward. Young white people, however, prefer internships that put them on the path for careers that will generally result in a DECREASE of the material wealth accumulated by their parents."

"If all goes according to plan, an internship will end with an offer of a job that pays $24,000 per year and will consist entirely of the same tasks they were recently doing for free. In fact, the transition to full time status results in the addition of only one new responsibility: feeling superior to the new interns."

So sad, but so true. I, however, never had an unpaid internship. In fact, at my first internship at Condé Nast Portfolio (RIP) in the summer of 2007, I made $375 a week before taxes! I'm happy to report that two and a half years and several publications later, I am now, before taxes, making about... $475 a week.

My first check from Condé Nast, June 2007. Obvs I was excited.

Oh, how far I've come. File under: white idiot.