Internships for Talented High School Students? 178
xeon4life asks: "I'm an Austin, Texas area high school senior with a slight dilemma: I need a job, I don't want what's offered at my age, and internships are not quite open for kids like me. I've recently been reading essays by Paul Graham about creating your own startup and have been motivated enough to convince two of my good friends to go into business with me later, during college. Thus, an internship at this point would be the ideal solution for me now, but nobody is willing to take me as an intern because I'm still in high school. What am I to do?"
"People have suggested that I just do what every other good American high school citizen does and take a mediocre job. The problem is, I feel it would be a waste of my talents right now to be stuck folding shirts at the local mall or flipping cheeseburgers when I could be helping develop a cutting-edge game, the next-generation compiler, or even the Linux kernel as an intern. I have a higher than most college students' understanding of concepts, and some real programming experience in languages like assembly and C/C++, but that isn't going to amount to anything if I can never find an interviewer who will at least listen to me. I'd appreciate any input the Slashdot readership can give me."
What?? (Score:2)
You're in high school. Get a date for the prom, and get a job at McDonalds. Has your school taught you anything about being a cog?
Worry about an internship in 2009.
Re:What?? (Score:4, Insightful)
Of course, I was 16 at the time, but a few years later, I had a software career making a _lot_ of money. And knowing exactly what those kind of jobs are like makes me glad I have the job I do today. Even when work sucks the most, I can stop myself and appreciate the fact that I'm not digging ditches in the blazing sun for $12/hr or flipping burgers or stacking 50lb bags of dog food for $8/hr.
Worry about your internship when you're in the last half of college. Don't worry about it in highschool. Besides, you're not only competing with seasoned professionals who need real jobs, but college people who need internships over the summer. You're low-man on the totem-pole.
And if you really want to do something, go donate your time and services at a local charity that could make use of your technical skills. That will definitely look good on your college application and future resumes. Besides, you'll feel a lot better doing something you love and just getting some kharma for it than you will busting your ass at Intel or IBM for free.
Re:What?? (Score:2)
Make it 2007 -- that is, if he is as talented as he claims he is. But, seeing what he himself says about his skills, i highly doubt it:
The problem is, I feel it would be a waste of my talents right now to be stuck folding shirts at the local mall or flipping cheeseburgers when I could be helping develop a cutting-edge game, the next-generation compiler, or even the Linux kernel as an intern. I have a higher than most college students' understanding of concepts, and some
Re:What?? (Score:2)
Kid (OP) - here is your answer (Score:2)
Step 1: Pick the company you want to intern for - presumedly some high-tech programming company.
Step 2: Go buy a red T-Shirt and a red baseball cap with no logo (unless you can find / steal a Domino's outfit.)
Step 3: Go buy a pizza from Dominos and take it to the tech company. Figure out where the hacker team is and just walk in and hand over the pizza.
Step 4: Tell them, over pizza, that you want t
Perhaps Rentacoder? (Score:1, Interesting)
But you might want to check Rentacoder.com and similar places where you can make some money for doing programming assignments that you choose. You won't become rich there, the
Hey "Mr. I'm so smart" (Score:2, Funny)
I know... (Score:1)
Ya, radical idea I know.
and to quote... (Score:3, Insightful)
"and internships are not quite open for kids"
awww but I really wanna!
Welcome ot the real world!
Now go do something usefull on your own. Contribute to an open source project if your too high up to flip burgers. Thats the best your gonna get unless you can modivate someone who is actually out of highschool.
Best bet is you get a job as a mail clerk, I dont know if temp agencies will touch you but part time is available with that stuff. At least with that you'll get a good idea of what work will be like.
Re:and to quote... (Score:2)
Re:and to quote... (Score:4, Interesting)
I had two internships in high school, one was working for a local tech outfit in the repair depot, which let me network and get the A+ and Apple certifications, and the other was assisting a local grade school get connected to the internet, which let me learn how to integrate technology into education and get a grasp on networking and server technology.
If it weren't fr those internships I'd probably be flipping burgers today, but instead I work at a top-notch boarding academy and run a freelance 'managed computing' business.
The company that ran the school I went to is active in Austin, it's called the Big Picture Company [www.bigpicture.org], they offer services to set up metcenter-like schools nationwide. find this company and ask someone for advice, they're VERY friendly.
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Re:and to quote... (Score:4, Insightful)
At first it doesn't sound like a bad thing, but when they pile on the work, it tends to get in the way of college. And they'll pay you like you don't have a college degree, even if your coworker is doing the same job, you will earn half of what he makes because he has a degree. Still you'll be making much more than a Mickey D's burger flipper, and you'll get used to the money.
The companies that shop around for someone who is so easily exploitable (in this manner), are generally the same companies that will exploit you and your coworkers in other manners. Sadly, I know of a few very bright minds that have become so co-dependant on their companies that they cannot leave and cannot properly invest the time to finish their eduction.
Having a degree, or more properly, a good Computer Science eduction, helps in subtle ways outside of your paycheck. It can assist you in avoiding pitfalls when writing programs. A skilled programmer may skillfully build bridges over these traps, but an educated one often finds ways to walk around them. You could theoretically get that education outside of school, but schools provide a wonderful support net of people who organize, plan, and analyze your progress in becoming a better programmer.
If you must get some sort of computer job, start off easy. Learn to administer some of the simple server babysetting for small businesses, and work your personal contacts to find a position. Expect to be paid almost nothing, as the field is flooded with people of dubious credentials, and the reason you might be able to get a job is because your competeing with the least qualified computer "people" for the bottom-of-the-barrel types of jobs. Consider it a resume building experience, and not a money generating venture. When you do graduate, you will be noticed above the others that did nothing but go to school.
Re:and to quote... (Score:2)
If they're in that position then it's their fault, not that of the company. There's nothing keeping them there. If they don't like it they can quit. So what if they stop getting a paycheck, they would stop getting a paycheck no matter what job they quit! Even if they quit the super fantastic we-respect-you job like this guy is look
Work on open source... (Score:4, Insightful)
Make your own internship (Score:3, Insightful)
That means that you can work for cheap, REAL cheap, gaining experience that will help you out in the future. So, get out there and help out as many people as you can with your skills, and to hell with a "regular" internship for now. If you do a good job, they will recommend you to others.
Re:Make your own internship (Score:3, Interesting)
You'll hone your core engineering skills enough as you continue to tinker, be it in college or via personal projects. But you won't really learn a lot of the instinctive business stuff there, like making customers happy, working out fair
Then take Paul Graham's advice... (Score:2, Interesting)
But again, your customer just cares about the product. They don't care if it was made by a team of Nobel prize winners, a bunch of high school kids, or a golden retriever.
Business isn't rocket science. If you're of legal age in which you could form an LLC, do it. Maybe take a mediocre side job to cov
Patience is a virtue (Score:5, Insightful)
You can gain other important skills by other ordinary high-school jobs. You don't have to work at a burger joint, there's libraries, and even good entry level jobs at factories. Working third shift at a factory can be loads of fun (kinda dark and mysterious).
Also, commitments among friends in high school often end at graduation. Life gets more complex, and you can find no fault in your friends if they get a significant other or decide to change their focus in education (what if they get into a different college from you).
Don't grow up too fast. You'll feel like you're 65 and ready to retire by the time you're 25, so be careful.
Re:Patience is a virtue (Score:5, Insightful)
I hate having mod points; I can never shut up long enough to use them. ;)
Another important facet of getting an "ordinary high-school job" - PERSPECTIVE. Too many people in IT nowadays (and too many people entering IT) have never experienced a non-tech job. Some skills you can learn at your local burger joint, library, mall kiosk, record (CD) shop, factory;
Oh, and by the way, people skills.
Another good thing to keep in mind; the tech sector dried up not so long ago. When I was in college, there was promise of endless jobs for countless graduates. Schools couldn't bring enough people in! Co-op positions were available by the tree-load and we all had dollar signs in our eyes.
Now that the "bubble has burst" and everybody's graduated we have ten applicants for every available position. This, of course, compounds this young gentleman's problem; it's an employer's market. The first set of resumees to hit the cutting room floor are those that lack a high school education. Next round - post secondary? Industry certifications? Experience? When certified college/university graduates are applying for internships (at internship rates) there's not much hope for someone without grade 12.
Personally, I'd like to echo the suggestion to 'pound the pavement'; hit the phone book, job bank, dress nice and start visiting local businesses. If they're not specifically an IT shop but have need for some help with their systems so be it. You're probably not going to get a job with Compaq, AT&T, IBM, Microsoft et al. right out of the gate. You may find your happy niche designing in-house software for Joe's Falafal House, Inc.
Good luck to you, son; but never hold yourself too high that you can't work like those other regular schlepps. BTW - it can actually help in the near future to show a prospective employer that you have some range of experience. It may set you far enough apart to land that dream job.
Re:Patience is a virtue MORE SKILLS (Score:2, Funny)
nunchuck skills
bowhunting skills
computer hacking skills
Re:Patience is a virtue (Score:3, Interesting)
There's a lot to be said for getting any kind of job. Office politics exist even where there are no physical buildings, and you need to learn to navigate these waters. Also, you'll have to learn what employers like and dislike in an employee, which might (at times) run against your pesonal subset of common sense. Such differing points of view of basically similar people have been the fuel for billiant workplace commentary like the comic strip Dilbert.
Funny thing is that it
Re:Patience is a virtue (Score:2)
Bull.
Before I took an IT internship the summer of my junior year in highschool, I had an "ordinary" job.
Do you want to know what amazing things I learned by bagging groceries?
Let me tell you - If you think most geeks have a bad attitude regarding "sheeple", talk to a minimum wager working a demeaning job.
It did, however, teach me one fact that I consider VERY useful - Demeaning minimum wage jobs suck, and I would quite seriou
Re:Patience is a virtue (Score:2)
Envision 5 six hour shifts a week, five minutes per customer - thats 300 women lined up one after another to give you a chance at scoring with them. Even the most socially inept leet haxor scores 0.33% of the time, so statistically that's 1 new sexual encounter per week. Want to increase that ratio, buy a motorcyc
"Discount" Tech Support (Score:2, Interesting)
If you're as technically competent as you're making yourself out to be, I bet you get requests to "make the Internet work" and whatnot all the time.
My advice? Charge those people for tech support. Even if you charge half of what the cheapest shop in town charges, you'll be making mad bank, and have uber-happy customers.
At least, that's what I did before I got my internship.
Which I didn't get until my junior year of college after four years of applying, even though I was qualified for all of those four
Take a "regular" high school job (Score:3, Interesting)
I promise you you'll gain enormously from this experience; first of all you'll come to respect the dignity of the average working joe, and secondly you'll get better at forming good relationships with the non-geeks of the world. This is a useful talent. They outnumber us.
If you're as smart and as driven as you sound, that won't wear off over the summer. I promise you the human skills you'll get from working a McJob for a while are a real benefit. And that won't hurt you when you come to apply for those internships in a few year's time.
You want an experience? (Score:2)
If you do not have decent interpersonal and social skills by the time you are in trouble all ready. If anything, i'd say "floating" aruond all summer would build better interpersonal skills. Not spending time in front of a deep fat fryer, but roaming around the ar
Re:You want an experience? (Score:2)
Maybe not as a character, but it will give you patience with your managers and the TPL reports later in life which means gold in the bank come review time ("Even when I ask you to do the most redundant of duties on weekend nights, you're always giving me a smile a
You know what I do in the summer? (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm no good at making stuff at all. I come up with ideas that are brilliant but my boss is too scatter brained to implement them even though they'd save him lots of money.
You know what? I get paid $7.50 an hour to get the same job as the highschool dropouts I work with. That's more than any of my friends get paid. You know what else? The reason you get paid to do something is because it sucks so bad that almost nobody is willing to do it for free.
Re:You know what I do in the summer? (Score:2)
One of the big reasons for this is that they give out highschool diplomas to just anybody these days. All you have to do is show up. You can't institute testing, or raise graduation requirements because it disproportionally fails out minority students, and somewhere along the line that became all that was required to be racist... No matter what the actual intent (in this case to provide employers w
corollary (Score:2)
"The more you get paid, the more the stuff you have to do sucks."
Re:You know what I do in the summer? (Score:2)
Re:You know what I do in the summer? (Score:2)
Re:You know what I do in the summer? (Score:2)
Actually, in the summer, it's the heat I don't like. Moving fast and carrying heavy things around makes you sweat. Though it won't be too pleasant when things are 30 or 40 below in the winter.
And yes, I do have to keep a schedule, but w
Normal job (Score:1)
these kids... (Score:2)
if you are high school, why don't you go out and enjoy it?
Look for strange jobs (Score:3, Interesting)
Eventually I got to work in video editing as people starting bringing computers into that realm, where I had the fantastic job of post-processing TV shows frame-by-frame to see if it was possible. The most computer-intensive work I did was writing scripts to rename large directories of files so they'd import into the video printer properly. Ugh.
Point being: you'll never get to do what you really want to do, but what you don't necessarily want to could be far more exciting than you realize. Get paid $10/hour doing low-level grunt work, just so long as you're NEAR a computer, you'll get bloody invaluable experience in real-world work.
I never did learn to be a real programmer, but I learned that I much prefer doing a mix of entertainment and coding anyway. Don't close any doors at this stage.
entroll in a community college (Score:4, Interesting)
as for joel's "advice"
Re:entroll in a community college (Score:2)
Note that his advice is for college students, though. A high school student will have a harder time getting a real internship, and as you note, has time to have fun and make some money.
For college students, though -- I'd strongly recommend his advice, at least in your last couple of summers. I would have benefitted from having followed it.
Re:entroll in a community college (Score:3, Insightful)
And im not trying to be a troll here, but in high school? Nobody will take your seriously. It sucks, i know. Hey, get a job fixing computers at a local shop. At least it involves computers unlike other, less stimulating wage
Just Be Out There (Score:1)
I'd say get together with those friends, figure out what you want to do, check to make sure you really can, and then if everything looks good, get that startup going now. If the problem is seed money (though
Re:Just Be Out There (Score:2)
For instance, the guy who created that Asterisk PBX system (and built a moderately successful startup around it) started out as an intern at a telecom company. I really doubt he would have the requisite knowledge if he start
Re:Just Be Out There (Score:1)
I take from this that you don't agree, but nothing in your post really counters my argument. From the question:
Want a job that teaches you what you don't know? (Score:1)
Get a summer job scratching a programmers back and fetching him coffee for $0.25/hr.
Ask plenty of questions and show him your crappy code. Next summer mabe you will get minimum wage.
Re:Want a job that teaches you what you don't know (Score:1)
Re:Want a job that teaches you what you don't know (Score:2)
Point is
Re:Want a job that teaches you what you don't know (Score:2)
And then, if you're like me, the product will hit the customer- who will then hire your sorry ass for 1/4th what you were making during the
Re:Want a job that teaches you what you don't know (Score:2)
Do what businesses will respect (Score:2)
Re:Do what businesses will respect (Score:2)
I can't belive I bought that shit. You are right. You are just plain right.
Re:Do what businesses will respect (Score:2)
You could- but chance are you either won't get hired in the first place or nobody will take another look at your resume after you're hired ever again.
I can't belive I bought that shit. You are right. You are just plain right.
I don't like being right about this- Entrepreneurs should be able to start businesses without compromising all of their personal values
Re:Do what businesses will respect (Score:2)
Is it wrong? What do you see in newspapers? Lots and lots of advertising along with catchy phrases like "We will not be undersold!" "Greatest bargains" "Lowest prices" "Most features".
If you make up things like fancy degrees or titles at major companies, expect to be checked out. Howe
Re:Do what businesses will respect (Score:2)
Re:Do what businesses will respect (Score:2)
Were'nt you paying attn. to all those GOOG stories (Score:2, Interesting)
How to get a job (or internship) within two weeks (Score:5, Informative)
First, I must apologize for the reception you've received to your question thus far. The ONE THING someone your age needs above all else is encouragement, which is something sorely lacking in most of the answers I've read. The fact that you stated your experience isn't bragging; you're trying to make it clear what direction you want to go in. I'm appalled at some of the things that have been said to someone who is actually going out and doing something with their life. (Jealousy that they did not, perhaps?) However... the silver lining is that such a response *will* help prepare you for the real world, which is unfortunately much like this at times. Don't let it discourage you; keep going anyway, and with just a little luck, you WILL succeed. Taking moronic insults and banter like this personally is pointless and a waste of time. File it away in the "This person is unreasonable and will waste my time" folder, and keep moving.
I can tell you from direct experience that there are MANY opportunities available to someone your age. I'm not familiar with the state of things in Texas, but everywhere I've tried (California, Florida, New York), there are always many people out there who see something of value in a kid with drive, and technical interest/ability. What I'm about to tell you about will work for getting you either a job or an internship (I've gotten many of both this way), though it may take a little tweaking based on your area and specific use. What it really boils down to is drive and determination, but some good planning beforehand can greatly reduce the amount of wasted time.
First, make a list of all of the different types of things you can think of that you might want to do, later in life. Obviously, you're going to want to make sure your internship matches your potential career(s), so this first step is important.
Next, come up with a list of ANY company in your area you can think of that might offer jobs in this same field. The fact that you're currently focussing on getting an internship instead of a job is irrelevant right now; a good internship requires the job that will support it to exist.
Now pull out a pencil, your computer, or whatever your favorite writing tool is and write yourself a script. Short, to the point, but cheerful and polite are the rules, here. "Hi, my name is Bob Smith, and I'm interested in interning/working for your company. May I speak with your hiring manager/HR department to discuss this?" Etc. Try it out on your parents, teachers, etc. Ask them to find ways to answer "No" and hang up on you, then eliminate those questions from your script. Remember that your script is just your plan, and that it will need to be flexible. You know, strategy vs. tactics. Testing it out on people will help show you which parts will likely progress normally, and which can go in any direction. Try to avoid questions that *can* be answered with a "No": "Hi, my name is Bob Smith, and I'm very interesting in interning in your department. I'd love to come in and chat with you about the possibility. I'm free this Thursday and Friday, anytime after 3:30 pm. When is best for you?" See? No way to say "No" without changing the conversation around.
Once you've got something that will allow you to get what you want without being too forceful, start calling up the companies on your list. It's fine to read from the script, though by now you'll probably have it memorized more than you'd ever want to anyway. Call, call, and call some more. If you get a nibble, don't go nuts and scare them off, but definitely show interest and drive. Remember, in their eyes, you're just an irresponsible kid. There's plenty of reasons NOT to hire you or take you on as an intern, so show them why they should. Don't be pushy, but show that you're not a flake, and that you have what it takes. If you get something good, congratulations! If not, don't give up. This WILL require many calls just to get the hang of it, and many more to be successful. Call the least
Re:How to get a job (or internship) within two wee (Score:1)
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Re:How to get a job (or internship) within two wee (Score:3, Insightful)
More than likely you'll file them under "
Re:How to get a job (or internship) within two wee (Score:2)
Re:How to get a job (or internship) within two wee (Score:2)
You're answering the wrong question (Score:2)
Re:You're answering the wrong question (Score:2)
He's not even planning to build his startup right after high school. He's speaking of creating one later, during college.
Well, I didn't mean to imply that he's going to create the startup the day of his high school graduation. But presumably he's going to attend college right after high school, so it's going to be roughly "right after high school" anyway.
Given that, why are we spending so much time trying to knock down his apparent drive, instead telling him to work at a burger shop, or go party?
Giv
Work for Free (if necessary) (Score:4, Insightful)
If making money is not a necessity. Approach what you consider the "ideal" successful business (the one that would look good on your resume) in your area and offer to work for free if necessary. You might be suprised that after a while they might offer you employment, especially if you treat it like a real job despite the lack of pay. As in no showing up just when you feel like it or generally making a goof of yourself.
Regardless of the outcome, you will get to "hang around" and pick up valuable real world business knowledge. From the businesses perspective, it is a relatively low risk option to see if you are worth their time.
Re:Work for Free (if necessary) (Score:2)
You can indeed get a foot in the door of some really big stuff by working for free (or cheap). The experience and mentoring you'll get is even more valuable.
In fact this is how the rich kids manage to get so much f
Re:Work for Free (if necessary) (Score:2)
I thought the same thing myself while I was working exclusively in IT surrounded by geeks. Then I took a part-time customer service job to help pay the bills (and finance my education) and I discovered something th
Re:Work for Free (if necessary) (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm not keen on self help books (I plan to write a book entitled "How To Stop Buying Self Help Books" one day...) but I am a big fan of the school of hard knocks.
The first and best thing you can do is rely on your "normal job" income to survive.
options (Score:2, Interesting)
But, if you believe higher education really isn't in your best interest: I would say to get a day job as the others say (not too much, unless you have the kind of parents who will make you support yourself...), and to develop in some of your free time. If you are as skilled as you say you are, surely there is something that you can work on, some underdeveloped FOSS project somewhere that you can be of use on, or if you
And... I'm an idiot. (Score:2)
I'm a high school student myself (Score:1)
become a lab rat (Score:2)
I worked in a physics lab one summer and a chem.E lab the next. I got to play with computers, did useful work, and was offered a bunch of scholarships.
Volunteer (Score:2)
If there is a small College nearby, perhaps you can do some work for their computer services department. If not, there are other options such as consulting with local small businesses.
If you go in with the attitude that "I am smarter than most college students or graduates..." then most companies would be glad to sho
Get a crap job and do your work on the side (Score:2)
Get a crappy job (something hands-on with physical labor involved would be best - geeks don't get enough exercise, and it will do wonders for your sleep schedule and overall mental health). Whatever this big project is that you're envisioning founding a small company around with your two friends - do that on your own time while working at your crappy job.
Even if you don't succeed, you'll learn a lot. Assuming it's a pure software project and you've got some way of sleeping and eating (see crappy job a
Try your school (Score:2)
my experience (Score:1)
I live in the Boston area, so I just started calling up universities. I was interested in physics, so I called up MIT, BU, Harvard, Tufts, Northeastern, etc. I made sure to talk with the chair of the department or someone high up. This is very important, o
McDonald's has much to teach if you learn (Score:2)
Get a job at McDonald's, like everyone else. However don't treat it like a chore you need to get gas money. Work hard, and advance. They are always looking for management. Come home every weekend in college and to the Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday shifts. (Perhaps something in the middle of the week too, but don't put in too many hours) You need the experience of management, and McDonald's will give it to you.
While managing a restaurant is different from running your own business, you will l
Re:McDonald's has much to teach if you learn (Score:2)
Or he might find that he likes the restaurant industry. One of my relatives started out at 19 working in fast food. Now at 38, he's a regional manager with a huge fast food franchisee (I was surprised to learn that there are corporations whose only business is buying and running McDonald's etc. franchises!) and operates a number of restaurants. He makes approximately 4x what I do and I'm a fairly well paid softwa
Oh great, (Score:2)
Humility is a great start (Score:1, Insightful)
Universities! (Score:2)
- dshaw
Start your own business (Score:2)
Re:Start your own business (Score:2)
This just screams early web porn shop.. lol
As for advice, volunteer at some local small ISP doing tech support. After a while, they'll
Re:Start your own business (Score:2)
LOL, no, she would have made much more for that.
Get a job first, THEN worry about your ideal work (Score:2)
I suggest you go out and get a job. Any job that yo
Two routes (Score:2)
Or you can pursue a job in a dissolving technical field. Within this route, there are a couple of options; you can hunt down an internship, you can find a grunt level IT job (Typically helpdesk), or you c
suck it up (Score:2)
Rule 5
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
you may think you're so incredibly talented, but trust me, there are a million other high school kids out there who think the same thing.
most places aren't even interested in college students with less than 60 credits for internships, let alone a high school student. no offense, but they're stereotyp
Learn to appreciate the mediocre... (Score:2)
Almost every job at some point requires "mediocre" work tasks. Yes, even in high-paying tech-related jobs, you may find yourself having to do "mediocre" tasks like spending hours helping with monotonous data entry during a company-wide inventory, or crawling under desks pulling cables, or cleaning server room walls and floors that suffered water damage.
We all want the cushy jobs, and many
Your're young, be stupid, do something different (Score:2)
If you have basic skills, put them to work on something you *want* to do, make a summer project (or two), web page, custom program or hardware, it may turn out lame, but it will give you the sort of experience outside of school and work that will make you more interesting to employers (or backers) in your carrer later on.
Ge
From Austin (Score:2)
Anyways I was pretty much hired at Sun Micro this spring except they instituted a hiring freeze company wide. I waas lucky to get a job with a place I interned with in High School in San Antonio. I went to one of the few high schools that have an active internship program. But there were a
mmmmhm. (Score:2)
You are not better than anyone else because you can use a computer.
Work is more about social and interpersonal skills than it is about technical skills. You need to prove that you know how to show up to work on time, dressed and groomed appropriately, do what managers tell you to do, and interact with customers and coworkers.
You will never get a more advanced *job* without having those things.
I consider myself pretty good at
ISP Tech Support? (Score:2)
Give yourself a job (Score:2)
Not a chance. (Score:2)
Ummmm... No..
You have no real experience, are in High School, and have an attitude problem. You may be as good as you say but your comments show a real lack of a willingness to learn from others.
I mean look at what you wrote. How much better you are
Be your own internship (Score:2)
Back in high school I did web design for local businesses instead of flipping burgers. Now I run a small software company [simian.ca] for a living. And truth be told, I'm still one credit shy of graduating high school.
Learn to deal with people (Score:2)
Most smart people I know have a special knack for insulting
Summer of Code by Google... (Score:2)
The FreeBSD Project is happy to participate in Google's Summer of Code 2005 program. Basically, this program provides $4500 in funding to allow students to spend the summer writing open source software.....
http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode.html [freebsd.org]
try freshmeat...or start your own (Score:2)
If I were in your shoes I would:
Think of anyone you know that has influence. I know someone who called his company's legal firm and asked for an internship for their hs-aged kid. Any firm that bills tens of thousands of dollars annually would d
Contact us (Score:2)
Re:Wrong explanation (Score:2, Informative)
Are you sure that there are no suitable internships for you? I interned once a week during high school for three years. This was a program my school had in place for all students grades 10-12, but I didn't like any of the internships they already had to offer, so I
Re:Wrong explanation (Score:2)