Friday, September 19, 2008
It's been awhile since the hit of the financial crisis, but it's tremors are still being felt today. I know I said that I would stop thinking and applying for internships, but things have cropped up that keep reminding me of the painful fact of how hard it is to get an internship now, much less a job, and that I'm no where close to either.
Was talking to a friend in lecture today, and he had successfully applied for an internship at ANZ bank. Well, successful until banks in Australia started to declare losses because they had to write off bad investments, no prize to guess the cause of the write off. So ANZ sent out an e-mail telling their potential applicants that they would not be accepting interns anymore for 2009. So sad...yes. But I don't feel pity for ANZ. They should have known better. I feel sorry for my friend, who has just gone off for an interview at Chadstone shopping mall for a sales assistant position for the summer.
I know we're all just undergraduates, but the hard fact of reality hit me, that you may think you're secure with everything going well, and one small dip in the market, and now you'll be selling shirts at David Jones.
Dan
11:51 am
