This essay sheds light on why you should never work an internship and also elucidates the advantages and disadvantages associated with working an internship. Moreover, how to make money to start financing your life without ever working an internship is delineated in this essay. Succumbing to working an unpaid internship is a calamitous travesty of being apart of an organization which some people would staunchly contend is worse than slavery. This is because, slaves at least were provided with housing and food for their labor, unlike unpaid interns who concede to succumbing to a negative return on time investment with no benefits nor a guaranteed job opportunity lined up even after having earmarked thousands of hours of their sacrosanct time working for a prospective employer. The prospective employer will never provide their unpaid interns with housing, food, nor even a living stipend. The unpaid interns will have to spend their own money and time to travel to the job-site with no guaranteed job prospects lined up after the duration of the internship elapses. The interns will be doing the same work as the paid employees, but without receiving a modicum of compensation for their time, labor, and efforts. It is much to a prospective employer's advantage to leverage unpaid interns since it is purely profitable on the employer's end if they can reap thousands of hours of free labor without offering anything in return to the intern for their efforts. Every prospective employee should have enough self-respect for themselves to be unwilling to work unpaid unless they strongly believe in the organization's mission. Even volunteer positions for organization's that operate on thin profit margins or almost at the break even point with humane missions, such as providing shelters and food to the homeless, do not require their volunteers to work as many long hours as traditional employers mandate their unpaid interns to work. Working a minimum wage dead end job that does not even provide a sustenance wage in which you relinquish your finite time, labor, and efforts in exchange for fiat currency is a better investment of your sacrosanct time than hemorrhaging money working an internship with no compensation nor guaranteed job lined up at the end of the internship. If you do not need money right away due to someone else subsidizing all your expenses then you should invest your working hours into building your own business, brand, and income generating assets, such as videos and audio books. You should never work an internship primarily because the opportunity cost is far to high and renders the pursuit eminently unwarranted, especially when the outcome is preordained to be unfruitful with no guaranteed job lined up at the end of the internship. There are ample disadvantages associated with succumbing to working an internship that are often overlooked which go far beyond the fact that almost all internships are entirely unpaid. First, you may be required to complete the undesirable grunt work as an intern and not even have the opportunity to build new skills nor assimilate more knowledge as you are completing mindless tasks that do not take advantage of your area of expertise. Prospective employers also view interns as temporary labor and often know this before hiring interns. In other words, they know in advance that they will not be able to provide a job opportunity for the intern once the time window of the internship elapses. Second, working an internship can be patronizing since interns are far more prone to being stigmatized and condescended than their paid counterpart, the organization's employees. In other words, being an intern can make other people feel as though you perceived yourself as having little to no self-worth if you are willing to work long hours completely for free. Interns are not employees of the organization and may have to work much harder to gain respect then their paid counterparts, the organization's employee.