Unpaid, unrelated internship?

[TaiwanesePharmGirl]

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Hello. So I realized recently that I have nothing to do this summer and started frantically applying for internships. Unfortunately most internships had application deadlines all the way back in March. What I managed to get was an unpaid (lunch and gas compensated I guess...) internship with this start-up music company. I'll be assisting with marketing, though I'm not a marketing major.

I'm thinking that during an interview I could talk about this internship as gaining first-hand experience with starting up a new business that I could use if I set up my own practice...since a business is a business. But obviously a music academy is completely different from a medical business...I don't know if my interviewer would laugh at me for trying to draw a connection between the two...

Its just that I feel like as a science major it'll be near impossible to get business-related experience (this internship was even asking for marketing majors)..but if such experience is completely unnecessary and even laughable then what's the point?

I did look for actual paid jobs but even fast food places aren't looking for summer workers, and my college is far away from home so I can't continue into the school year. I've sent out multiple requests for shadowing. As you can tell from my name, I don't know what I want to do with my life anymore...so I'm going to hopefully use this summer to figure it out. I will also be volunteering...generic medical stuff. But volunteering/shadowing can only take up so much time and I don't want to feel like I'm doing nothing at all other than that. I know that I should be doing what I want to do, but I can't do what I want to do since I applied too late...and my only other desire is not to waste the summer away. If you've read through all of this, thanks so much! Do you think this internship is a waste of my time?

 

[Psai]

I say go for it. I'm of the opinion that people should be compensated fairly for the work they do but I totally understand because I was in your shoes two years ago. I think you should do the internship, meet some people and maybe you'll get a good story out of it for interviews. I've noticed that people love talking about unique things in your interview rather than the 200th conversation about that amazing volunteer experience in the ED. But if it's something lame like being a coffee buyer for people, drop it as quick as you can.

 

[235009]

Only do it if it interests you as this will probably have little if any effect on your app