Sunday, April 27, 2014

Guest Speaker: Maria


          Hearing from Maria about her personal experiences in the Italian workplace was very interesting and slightly refreshing. A lot of what we have been learning about is how horrible the job market is currently, especially for young people. It was nice hearing someone's story that has actually been decently lucky and successful. I also found it interesting that Maria pursued her degree to the end even though she left a well paying job to do so. Especially with her being a teacher it was good to see how dedicated she was to her own education. It is crazy to me that people well out of their education would accept unpaid teaching positions at universities. I believe at least most if not all of our unpaid teachers are grad students that are doing it as a part of their education. There are definitely unpaid internships available to many people but not typically within the education system.

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