Is the Internship Worth It?

chrisw
Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:06:05 +0000

So I’ll cut to the chase. I have an internship doing B2B sales, 70 hours a week, Monday thru Saturday. It’s a commission based internship, which means that if I have a tough day, I’m not making money. In addition, it requires me to drive an average of 100 miles per day.

I have an offer to work at a restaurant, which would be about the same amount of money each week, but it’d be 30 hours instead of 70 hours, and it would give me a lot of flexibility during the day (I also have an on-my-own-time research job) to get work done.

The question I have is, therefore, is it worth it to stick it out at the internship? For what it’s worth, I am not sure I want to go into sales anyway…in fact, chances are that I am going to go to law school the year after next.

Any advice is greatly appreciated