No Sophomore Summer Internship, Feel Like An Idiot Doing Everything Wrong

ssnicker638
Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:07:20 +0000

Hi everyone,

Thanks for all the great advice and reassurance. I really want to work this summer and stay in an apartment away from my family, but my dad keeps telling me that he won’t pay my college tuition if I “take a useless job like waitress or babysitter this summer” (which are all that’s left for me at this point since it’s so late in the internship search) or move out of the house for this summer. I’d love to work at a normal fast food or retail job like @Lindagaf 's family friend, but that’s unfortunately not an option for me at this point. Yes, I realize I should’ve taken the full ride at a state school to get away from my parents. Yes, this predicament is my fault. Unfortunately, it’s too late to do anything about that.

I’m currently trying to find virtual internship opportunities (mainly unpaid since the paid ones all found their interns WAY before I got into my new school as a transfer), but it’s definitely tight with this timeline. I think my dad has unrealistic expectations for the internship search even this late in the game because he thinks employers will be salivating at the opportunity to have an intern from an Ivy, but obviously that’s not how anything works at all. When I tell him that, he gets INFURIATED and says things like “WELL THEN WHY AM I PAYING YOUR EXPENSIVE IVY TUITION IF IT’S NOT GONNA RESULT IN A GREAT JOB AND GREAT INTERNSHIPS?”