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

Lindagaf
Wed, 16 Jun 2021 12:05:25 +0000

When you’re a senior, use your college career center and the alumni network and find a job. Graduate with a job ready to go and leave your father behind. Start looking for internships in the fall, and get something secured for NEXT summer by January. Same with when you’re ready to look for a full time job.

Please stop beating yourself up. There is zero problem with changing your major three times. That’s the beauty of the American system. Your humanities major can land you a six figure job right out of college if you go into consulting or manufacturing management. You’re far too focused on what you’re doing wrong to consider what you’re doing right. You will graduate with a degree from an Ivy League school and with it comes a certain amount of implied success.

You need to find help so that you can learn to endure the abusive home situation for the next couple of years. Or find a way to escape. You are NOT a failure. You are NOT doing everything wrong. So what if you don’t have an internship? My friend’s kid attends HYP. She took a year off during Covid and worked at a fast food Mexican chain. That’s not failure. That’s doing the best you can in the circumstances. I suggest you get a job anywhere, maybe even as a summer camp counselor so you can live away from home.