Over 50 and becoming an intern

The last thing that most people who are unemployed and over fifty consider is being an intern. Interns are for young people, right?

Not necessarily, even though everyone pictures interns as recent college grads or even college students, there is no reason to believe you can’t become an intern at any age. Is it going to be easy? Of course not, in this economy there is nothing that is easy. You will probably have to work harder than anyone else and you will have to impress the hell out of everyone.

But you have to think that you can do it.

Before you sign up for anything keep a few things in mind. Will the internship be helpful for your job search? If it doesn’t add value to chances of getting a job don’t do it. How much time do you want to spend being an intern? Getting paid nothing or next to nothing wouldn’t pay the bills so don’t make a career out of it.

Where are the intern opportunities? The government has an intern program called the Career Intern Program. You might want to check that out.

There are also websites such as internjobs.com, monster.com, careerbuilder.com and others which list intern positions.

Of course if you are really ambitious you could contact a company and ask if they would consider you as an intern. The worst they could say is no.

So don’t use your age as a reason you can’t become an intern.

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