Job as a courier / messenger?

It is pretty standard practice and it's making a mockery of the design professions. Talented young designers are looking to other industries (to which they are often poorly equiped) as they cant afford to work for nothing.

I know lots of practices who do this and charge their clients for the time. It's just greedy and there's no excuse for it.... Cunts.

...and don't get me wrong it isn't just the practices that are at fault, working for free is not only stupid but is effectively being a scab, as in people who work during a strike. Well actually it's much worse 'cos strikes are associated with corrupt trade unions and don't always represent the workers.

+1

Another problem with the internship culture is that it dosent make for a competitive market and allows stagnant design practices to carry on leading the industry. It's rapidly meaning that cities like London are coming close to loosing their cutting edge status within the design world.

It also means that the people getting into industry are generally not the best equipped rather the ones who can afford to intern for months on end (so people with family in London or *the rich).

*I really think that unpaid internships should be made illegal for the good of inumerable industries. It would help growth within those industries and also increase the competition within the market.