… and the results are pretty spectacular. Hat tip: Rebecca Rose.
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Amber Portwood, who famously beat up her boyfriend on MTV’s Teen Mom and subsequently lost custody of her kid, is now dating a tattoo artist she met when he was interning at the tattoo parlor where she got inked. I didn’t really know that tattoo parlors needed interns – I’m going to guess that this was more of an apprenticeship, since the dude now works as a tattoo artist, rather than like a “answer the phone and factcheck all the tats” kind of internship. Also, he apparently was not responsible for the tattoo Amber got of her daughter Leah’s face (pictured, of course), so that’s something in the positive column for him.
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.
Is “take this job and shove it” not creative enough for you? Try out some of these more outrageous ways to quit. – AOL
Are your coworkers making you fat? This might be a sign that that chick in accounting needs to cool it with her brownie-baking experiments. – Lemondrop
Sometimes a job is so precise it requires an animal to do it instead of a person. It helps that the animal is cuter and will not drink the last of the coffee. – Blisstree
Remember Eloise? She downgraded from life at the Plaza to working as an intern at Conde Nast. – McSweeney’s
Here are ten things that will help you survive office life. No, they’re not coffee and painkillers – they’re ways to get other people to do your work without realizing it and tips for making small talk with just about anyone. – Lifehacker
Prettier people get ahead at work. There’s actually a lot more to it than that, but that’s why this is a link roundup and not a whole separate article. – Newsweek
Downside of being an intern at a fashion magazine: you don’t get paid. Upside: sometimes you get to be in a photo shoot styled by the Creative Director. – Elle
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.
