… and the results are pretty spectacular. Hat tip: Rebecca Rose.
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The brilliant minds over at I Love Charts created this graphic, which gives insight into the mind of a boss who is deciding whether to assign work to an intern.
There are badass interns. And then there’s Daniel Hernandez, Jr.
The 20 year old University of Arizona student was less than a week into his job as an intern for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords when she and many other people were shot outside of a Tuscon grocery store last weekend. Although the shooter was spraying into the crowd and Hernandez could have run for cover, instead he ran up to his boss, who had been shot in the head, and held pressure down on her wound to help curb the bleeding. He stayed with her until an ambulance arrived. His quick thinking and medical knowledge are being credited with helping Giffords survive. He even has his own Facebook fan page now.
Hernandez, however, claims he’s no hero. He told his school newspaper: “I don’t think I’m a hero. I think doing something one off is not something heroic. I think the heroes are people like Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Ron Barber, Dave Zimmerman, and Pam Simon. They are people who have dedicated their lives to public service so for them it wasn’t just a one time thing, it’s spending their entire lives trying to help others.”
Is Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, an even scarier place to be an intern than Conde Nast? The New York times reports:
A 21-year-old photography intern for a newspaper in Ciudad Juárez was shot and killed, and another intern was wounded in an attack Thursday at a shopping mall parking lot, their employer said. The shooting comes a week after the Committee to Protect Journalists released a report documenting the deaths or disappearance of more than 30 journalists since Mexico began a crackdown on traffickers that have left more than 28,000 people dead. Eight journalists have been killed this year, the group said. The pair of interns, from El Diario de Juárez, were attacked in their car by gunmen firing several rounds, leaving Luís Carlos Santiago dead. His unidentified companion was being treated at a hospital.
Our thoughts are with the intern’s loved ones.
That’s up for debate. But this original rap he did is pretty entertaining, so there’s that.
Following in the footsteps of Kanye West, who did a faux-internship at Louis Vuitton and folded T-shirts at the Gap for an hour, Lady Gaga is reportedly jumping from music to fashion by taking an internship with hatmaker Philip Treacy. Gaga and Treacy collaborated on two headpieces for Gaga’s recent tour, and she apparently applied for an internship in the traditional way rather than just asking her friend to hook her up. I think it’s really cool that she wants to start at the very bottom and work her way up in order to truly learn about the industry, but it also kind of bugs me to see a celebrity – who doesn’t need it – possibly take an internship position away from a student who could really benefit from the experience. I don’t have a problem with someone like Gaga taking on a vanity internship, but there is a part of me that’s like “you get to play at having a job while some people actually really need this gig in order to launch their actual careers? I’m going to give it three weeks of “interning,” max, before she’s designing her own line of hats. It’ll be the quickest promotion ever.
Cross posted from TheGloss.
Have you ever flipped through a magazine and felt like they were missing your perspective on something? One girl, Ashley Falcon, felt like she and other plus-size women weren’t getting enough advice and support from fashion magazines. Rather than just complain, Ashley got going – she joined Marie Claire magazine as an intern, and soon she was penning her very own column for the publication. How did she make the leap from unpaid intern to full-time writer? One day, Ashley was sharing a cab with a Marie Claire editor. She mentioned that she had to work much harder than her more slender coworkers to find cute, appropriate work attire. The editor thought Ashley made a great point, and before long she was winning a huge following with her honest yet funny takes on plus-size shopping. The column, “Big Girl in a Skinny World,” is a hit.
The article is surprisingly and admirably frank. Ashley doesn’t just claim to be an expert, she offers her testimonial as an unashamed size 18: “I go through at least a few pairs of jeans every year, routinely wearing holes in the area where my thighs rub together.”
Ashley wrote that “It’s not easy being chic, but it’s an epic struggle when you’re a big girl.”
Congrats, Ashley, and keep up the good work!
Oh, fashion interns. Not only does wanting to break into such a competitive industry usually mean you have to accept several unpaid or low-paid gigs in order to build up your resume, one fashion website is now pushing their free help even further. Fashionista.com, who (like many other fashion and beauty companies) relies on unpaid interns to help them cover the bases during Fashion Week, has asked their staff to go above and beyond the normal call of duty. Check out this section from a recent intern job ad they posted:
“We’ll need you at least two days a week until Fashion Week starts February 9th, during which we’ll need you more. How much more depends on your schedule, but you should be eager to skip class in favor of MILK. Our intern hours are officially 11 to 4, but again, once the week starts there’s no on/off.”
You heard that right, everybody: your unpaid job is WAY more important than your education! School is for losers! I’ll see you guys at fashion week.
