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Internships are a very good way of getting firsthand experience, but they're also a reliable way of finding out about your intended career.
Many professions and careers have a very nebulous, vague, and largely wrong, image. You'd swear all lawyers ever did was wear suits, have affairs, and run around doing close ups, and get paid for doing that.
Anyone who's done a legal internship, on any level, can tell you the reality is slightly different.
There's a tide of clients, obscure issues that can get much more obscure every time someone opens their mouth, and an apparently endless selection of legal procedures which could drive anyone to distraction.
The research scientist doesn't just meander about wearing a white suit and being brilliant. The science intern will tell you that years of tortuous research, interminable experiments, and often infuriating budgets, make research scientists a lot more thoughtful than any single science would normally require. The sheer complexity of the research field, as an operational thing, is something very few people outside the field know anything about. Interns, getting a good look at these realities, and the sort of work involved, the professional cultures, and often the business cultures as well, get a very good introduction.
They also discover how they relate to the work and the career. We've seen many people on our Forum who've done their degrees, and found the field something they really don't like, or that it leads nowhere, as a career.
Internships, in a career-oriented society, are invaluable as a reality check. The kind of time and money spent starting up a career isn't funny. The internships are important professional orientation.
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