Internship tips for a better future.

Our son JP is a junior in college, and hopes to land a computer science internship next summer. In this kind of situation, having a mother as a career counselor can be a blessing and a curse. “I can just sign up with the college’s internship system and see how it goes,” he informed me. Yet I know from experience that your first professional gig can have a huge impact on the rest of your career: what you start out doing can lead you down a long road of doing the same thing, whether you like it or not. Since computer programmers exist in nearly every sector, JP could be writing code for one...

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