Kingdom of Knuffel

Internships should also be paid. I'm getting my educator license, and when it comes time to teach for a year, they're going to pay me to do that. I'm not sure how much, but it beats nothing at all.

Internships absolutely should be paid, otherwise it's exploitation.

chuunibyou wrote: ↑Jan 11th, '24, 14:30 Internships absolutely should be paid, otherwise it's exploitation.

It's sad because in most instances it is exploitation. :(

Any work rendered should be paid. Period.
To F* H* with 'doing it for experience/exposure' neither of those pay bills. :}

I'm a professional illustrator, and I have heard the exposure arguement from all sorts of people. The most recent was a retired professor that wanted me to do abstract work for a book of poetry and he told me straight up that he wasn't getting paid and neither was I and I didn't mind that for a moment. Then I got to thinking about it, and I started to mind it more and more lol.

If he's not giving those books away for free he was most definitely gonna make some money on it. Speaking as a writer. :}

Well, he's 60+ years old and he taught writing in college for some time. He promised me three copies. I just have projects I want to finish because I know I'll at least make some money from them. :/

Projects that make money are priority. I find that I'm not motivated to do work if I'm not getting any monetary gain from it.

The only time I do not expect monetary gain from something I make is when I do it for my own leisure or it is made explicitly to be a gift. :}

Yep. And those are all non-work related things, they're the rest of life.