When it's not OK to be an intern
Posted on June 18, 2010 at 13:52 PM EDT
Dear Annie: Can you explain something to me? I'm a film major at UCLA, graduating in 2011. A friend of mine, who graduated from my school last year, recently told me he was quitting a job as a production assistant at a TV studio. I know I could do what he was doing, it was a nonunion job, and it would be fantastic experience for me. So when I heard he had given two weeks' notice, I made an appointment with his boss and offered to fill in for the summer, as an intern, for no pay.