No service is for free

In life, money is the most important thing, and making money is not an easy task. One needs skills and experience to make money faster. To acquire skills or experience, interns work under a company. During the time of internship, they learn skills and gather experience, which helps them when they become full-time workers. During the time of internship, they mostly learn, and they are paid a salary at the end of the month. Do you think interns deserve any salary when they are the ones learning? Let me discuss it today.

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The first thing is, interns don’t receive a salary equal to that of a full-time worker. They are paid a small amount for working as an intern. So, the salary is not so high as to be a concern. And in each company, there are only limited slots for interns, which are included in the company’s budget. Again, the salary is not so high that it can create fluctuations in the company’s economy. I think it’s not worth mentioning, considering the annual budget of a company.

Now the thing is, how does the intern learn or acquire skills? In most cases, they work under a person and follow how the person works and the strategy. At the primary level, interns are assigned some simple tasks that anyone can do, and from time to time, they learn more and more about the work by seeing others. They also get the chance to practice according to their ability. If an intern has good ability, he can grasp all the skills easily and can almost work like full-time employees, even if the salary is low. Still, it’s good for him because he can learn more skills and gather more experience. But with average ability, most interns end their internship doing simple tasks.

It’s not that interns are being taught manually. They learn according to how much they can grasp from others. It also doesn’t mean a company is giving money to interns for nothing. A company at least forces an intern to work for what they are paying for. A company never invests for nothing. A company knows how to reap profits from interns. Interns are not people who have been picked from the roadside. All of them are qualified to be workers. They just need an environment to learn more about what they have learned and gain real-life experience because learning from books and learning in real life are two different things. Practical knowledge is important. They know most of the things, and they need confidence that they can also do things better, and that’s all.

Even a laborer receives a salary. And an intern is highly qualified and has enough knowledge about a field and works just for gathering practical knowledge and real-life experience, which is more than a laborer. They are not just learning from the company; they are also giving their precious time to the company’s work. So, I think that giving a salary to interns is justifiable.