50-Year-Old Interns at Nonprofits? Is This a Trend? - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly: This article suggests that there is a trend in New York of 40- and 50-year-olds applying for unpaid internships but we would like to hear from readers on the topic. Is it really a trend, and is it for good or for bad? Is this the wave of the future?
“You’ve got to put your ego away,” says Michael Gonzalez, 52, who works part-time as an extern at KIND, a nonprofit that provides legal services to children in lower Manhattan. He earned a law degree two decades ago, but has been doing sales and running his family’s carpet business since. “You may have had a corner office before, but your new office will now be the conference room, and you’ll be sharing it with 23- and 24-year-olds,” he says. Pace Law School’s New Directions Program is helping him to make the switch.
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