My week has been both chaotic and fun. I had my first observation on Thursday. My math lesson was rough, and I thought I could have done better. Of course my advisor said I did great, and after thinking about it, I thought she might have a point.
Many of the teachers I work with have been telling me to go to the district office and apply for a job. Well, today I did that, but to my dismay I am suppose to turn in a resume. I have one, but I’m not sure it is what they are looking for. The whole idea of being graduated and starting my career is so surreal. I love it.
Some other things I love is this website stuffwhitepeoplelike.com. The major draw is that I’m white, so by default I like it. Conan introduced me to it, and the white catchy name caused me to Google it. I spent a couple minutes reading what they had to say, and I’m pretty much going to buy the book (yes, they published a book-does it get any better than this?). Here is a little clip from the site you be the judge…
Unpaid Internship
“In most of the world when a person works long hours without pay, it is referred to as “slavery” or “forced labor.” For white people this process is referred to as an internship and is considered an essential stage in white development.
The concept of working for little or no money underneath a superior has been around for centuries in the form of apprenticeship programs. Young people eager to learn a trade would spend time working under a master craftsman to learn a skill that would eventually lead to an increase in material wealth.
Using this logic you would assume that the most sought after internships would be in areas that lead to the greatest financial reward. Young White people, however, prefer internships that put them on the path for careers that will generally result in a DECREASE of the material wealth accumulated by their parents.
For example, if you were to present a white 19 year old with the choice of spending the summer earning $15 an hour as a plumber’s apprentice or making $0 answering phones at Production Company, they will always choose the latter. In fact, the only way to get the white person to choose the plumbing option would be to convince them that it was leading towards an end-of-summer pipe art installation.
White people view the internship as their foot into the door to such high-profile low-paying career fields as journalism, film, politics, art, non-profits, and anything associated with a museum. Any white person who takes an internship outside of these industries is either the wrong type of white person or a law student. There are no exceptions.
If all goes according to plan, an internship will end with an offer of a job that pays $24,000 per year and will consist entirely of the same tasks they were recently doing for free. In fact, the transition to full time status results in the addition of only one new responsibility: feeling superior to the new interns.
When all is said and done, the internship process serves the white community in many ways. First, it helps to train the next generation of freelance writers, museum curators, and director’s assistants. But more importantly, internships teach white children how to complain about being poor.
So when a white person tells you about their unpaid internship at the New Yorker, it’s not a good idea to point out how the cost of rent and food will essentially mean that they are PAYING their employer for the right to make photocopies. Instead it’s best to say: “you earned it.” They will not get the joke.”
I picked this one, because it applies to me so well, but I also like the one titled, “Girls with bangs.” I so want them, but I always chicken out, or my hair dresser talks me out of it.
