From Wikipedia, “Internships provide employers with cheap or free labor for (typically) low-level tasks, and also the prospect of interns returning to the company after completing their education and requiring little or no training.”
“Internships provide employers with cheap or free labor for (typically) low-level tasks, and also the prospect of interns returning to the company after completing their education and requiring little or no training.”

At least half to the majority of internships end up being no to low paid as the purpose of the internship is to give you real world work experience to put on your resume for your future career in said field as you can’t graduate with no experience and just expect to waltz into your career.

There is a reason its called an internship and not a job, the internship is a learning experience, even if your just cleaning cages, you’ve at least paid your due’s. Where does this sense of entitlement come from anyway?

If you are being paid a decent wage, you should expect your internship to involve a lot of work, especially grunt work in the given field.

If you are NOT being paid a decent wage, you should expect your internship to involve mostly just educational experiences.

Why should anyone work for something that gives so little in return? They shouldn’t. Don’t put up with “internships” that don’t give you something, whether it is money or experience. In the best cases, it will be BOTH!

I agree with the others — sounds like someone didn’t know what she was getting into. Everybody poops, sweetie, especially big cats.

Sorry, but sounds like a pretty standard interning job. They aren’t glamorous or fun, its about getting real world hands on experience in the field you want to work in and primarily does invovle just doing the basic grunt labor of that field.

Poor management I can sympathize with, but if you don’t want to work hard and get your hands dirty, you’re going to need to reconsider working with animals.