Paid Internships. Do You Subsidize?

Pizzagirl
Sat, 07 Dec 2013 21:37:04 +0000

Also, if the housing costs are not high, what’s the issue, really?



The issue isn’t so much how high the housing costs are – it happens to be NYC, but make it Kansas City for all I care. The issues, to me, are two-fold:


Is this a good opportunity to begin to take the training wheels off for a kid who has had the good fortune of being paid for up to the point – in preparation for the “real launch” (gulp)?
Secondarily, if I’m to move from a position of “we pay for it all” to another position, how do I coherently articulate that so it’s consistent across all scenarios that H and L may face?


Note that the second one isn’t “equalize them all.” For example, in a recent summer, one kid worked a summer job while the other attended summer school. The kid who worked the job got to keep the money, the one who attended summer school we paid for – that’s fine, I wasn’t trying to equalize either $ that they wound up with or $ that I spent on each.

Seriously, thank you to all.