Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Michael Garmisa writes: "The reason I ask is I was thinking about getting an internship of sorts at a paper next month." Don't think about it too much. Do it. An internship while you are in high school will really pay off in the future (not necessarily with money...but knowledge that will put you well ahead of your contemporaries). I have an acquaintance that took an internship while in college at the L.A. Times. She is now the Associate Editor (at least the last time I looked at their masthead). I was fortunate in attending a high school that had a strong journalism program. We not only published a weekly 8 page tabloid, but had a student news bureau that essentially controlled the flow of information and photographs to several local weekly newspapers as well as the old Los Angeles Herald Examiner. Just that experience helped me through the U.S. Army and part time jobs while in college. (Part time jobs included the L.A. Times). One thing to remember is the impression you make during an internship can help you or haunt you the rest of your professional career. The world is really much smaller than the population figures would indicate. Sorry about the slice of my life...Eric Welch can probably add a lot of valid information to this. Regards, Bill Larsen ohlen@lightspeed.net