Hi redditors of personal finance. I'm hoping to get some advice on how to best go about a situation that has developed at my internship.
I started at this internship about a month and a half ago, working in the film finance space. Originally, I was set to work 12/hrs a week as an unpaid intern. I did not mind this, as I had little to no experience and was eager to gain some. Though, it should be said that I have a high GPA in a tough degree at a prestigious school -- it was not exactly hard for me to get this position, nor would it be hard for me to find another.
I have been really enjoying and excelling in this internship. I'm not saying this to brag on myself, but it is objectively true. I've heard nothing but positive feedback, finish tasks ahead of time, have been asked to lead **all** of the intern projects (projects that will take ~2 mos each to complete), and recently pitched an idea for a long-term research project that my boss was really excited about. I've become somewhat of a go-to person in the company to throw work at when people get overloaded, as I've consistently done a good job and completed tasks ahead of time. One specific example of this is that I have spent a lot of time doing script creative feedback reports -- this is meant to be the job of a senior level position in our company, but he has personally asked me to take some of these on myself as I am doing a good job at them and the company has been inundated with scripts recently. It should be said that I enjoy the people I work with, and they have been great mentors to me both personally and professionally.
The only problem is that now that my bosses have seen what I can handle, I've had so much work thrown at me in the last couple of weeks that I have to work 25+ hours a week and through the weekends to keep up. This is getting hard to justify for an unpaid position, and means I'm working nearly double the hours of the two other interns on the team.
Last week, my boss emailed me into an email with 5 other people telling them that I was to be the point of contact for a project that is going to take several months, and that I was to lead and delegate tasks with the other interns. He did this all without asking me, which obviously made me really frustrated. I sent him a private email back saying that I would reach out to the other person leading the project and get started delegating tasks, but that I hoped we could sit down at on a certain date and discuss expectations for next semester, specifically the possibility of this becoming a paid internship for the next semester (I was asked to stay on for the next semester around 3 weeks ago). I brought to his attention that I was working 25 hours a week, as I'm not sure he was entirely aware of this, and that this internship has gone above and beyond what I originally expected it to be. He seemed receptive and he said he was glad to sit down and talk about this.
I'm planning on sitting down with him next week, and I was looking for advice as to how to go about this discussion. I honestly do not know if I will continue on unpaid, but would absolutely be cutting down on workload if I did. However, I am completely fine with my current workload just not at an unpaid position. Do you guys have any advice for how I can about negotiating this so I can turn my unpaid internship into a paid position? Thanks!
Submitted November 25, 2018 at 03:09AM by StatusSnow https://ift.tt/2PR6R1J
