Jason Wasser, LMFT 🎗️Founder, Shevet Collective · Therapy & Coaching for Entrepreneurs, Family Businesses 🖥 Certified Neuro Emotional Technique Practitioner Founder Shevet Collective 🎧Host:You Winning Life Podcast 🎤

The importance of Internships: You Winning Life Podcast

12 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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In this segment of the You Winning Life Podcast, the speaker discusses the trade‑offs between pursuing internships and independent projects, noting that internships are typically paid today. He explains his decision to return to a master’s program in information management as a strategic pause that gave him an extra year and a half to explore career interests, acquire practical skills, and delay entering the full‑time workforce while still earning a paycheck. The speaker emphasizes his love for technology and entrepreneurial ambitions, describing how the graduate program equipped him with real‑world applicable skills that he plans to leverage in a future full‑time role while hoping one of his startups will succeed.

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So I'm definitely an advocate of doing your own thing as well. The only downside is you may not be making money with internships. Typically they're paid nowadays. Mm-hmm. Yeah, but I, I, I went back for my master's program to explore, uh, because at that point I was not planning on going full-time cuz I didn't have like a paycheck. So it kind of gave me an, like, another year and a half to kind of delay entering the workforce and figuring out what I like and what I didn't like as well, and learn new skills that could be used in the workforce. So that's kind of how I looked at my master's and decided for information management, because I was like, I love tech. That was my ultimate goal. By that point, I knew, like, I wanted to be entrepreneurial and have my own thing, but I also needed a paycheck. So that's why I was like, well, I'll join something full-time and hopefully one of my startups will work out. But it gave me skills and to be applied for the real world as well.