Friday's assortment

-We've established that  Rejected White College Applicant is entitled, just as we caught a similarly barrel-dwelling fish when we confi...

"[O]pportunities to work for free"

Matthew Yglesias has been defending unpaid internships with a lesser-evil argument: they're better than pricey grad school. Specifically...

Sigh

I think Instapundit did a close reading of my post about unpaid internships.

Intern-sectionality

Because the topic has interested me for so long, after writing about gender and unpaid internships for a wider audience , I did take a close...

Bitter baristas, disgraced designers, and unpaid interns

-There exists a blog entirely made up of the nasty thoughts a barista (well, ex-barista ) has about his customers (seemingly written in rea...

More interns-and-housewives

OK, so make this reminder number I'm not sure how many, this week alone, that I need to pitch more articles . There's now a really g...

Ends with a whimper

Today was the second-to-last day of class, aka the review session. For this reason, the train I normally take, which normally gets me to the...

CEO position, transportation stipend available

Just got a list email about what sounds like a pretty cool, if not super-glamorous, job, "with a preference to graduate students and re...

New York City, 2012

-A missing-person sign up in and around Penn Station indicates that the young man "is not wearing a yarmulke." -One Facebook frien...

Towards a tip-jar economy

The New York Times, which itself  offers unpaid internships , calls out unpaid internships, and questions whether the fashion industry can c...

A feminist case for teachers' unions

The Internet is  split over whether liberals/progressives should support the Chicago teachers’ strike. The pro-strike side has the mo...

Exciting job opportunity

A Thai restaurant in the Village is looking for a "management intern." Unpaid. "The intern will have the opportunity to learn...

Media, elites UPDATED (and link fixed)

Via Ned Resnikoff , a fascinating, depressing, tale of journalism today. Alexandra Kimball hits all the key points, really, including why a...

"You say you want a revolution"

How'd you like to work for free for a place that sells $5,000 dresses  and $1,000 shoes ?

The 25-year-old teen mom

The topic du jour  is that girls on their parents' health insurance often don't have coverage for pregnancy. But as the first epis...

Work-like experience

Disclaimer: This post is inspired by recent controversies in the UK, but is mostly about the States. Not a new topic here at WWPD, but a new...

Via Facebook, international edition

-Unpaid internships: not just in the States, not just in glamorous professions . -A Brussels woman, Sofie Peeters,  makes a documentary abo...

Realities to contend with

-Tavi Gevinson continues to create, impress. As well she should - WWPD is pro-Tavi. It does strike me as strange, though, that we are only ...

Not under my roof

Parental support until age 18 and no later remains etched in cultural mythology, but fails to correctly describe expectations. The most obvi...

"Special privileges"

Calling Flavia , Flavia's commenter "i," and the usual WWPD audience: The following just appeared on my Facebook newsfeed: ...