If you have just graduated from university, then you ought to start earning in order to pay your loan off, considering it could exceed £50k. House prices are sky high, so lots of saving would be needed for a mortgage too.
But no, the vice has been tightened on our generation again. Universities now talk about 'internships', which I understand as usually unpaid labour.
So you have just paid for your education, but have to borrow even more money to cover rent, food, and transport so you can work for a company which gives nothing back to you.
Cameron keeps saying that he wants to end the 'something for nothing' culture for those who live on benefits. Maybe he'd ought to also end the 'something for nothing' culture in the workplace by MAKING WORK PAY.
Think, by working for that company you will be giving it value, and making them profit.
And please don't tell me that you get contacts and experience, as whilst this might be true, a proper job gives you the same things, along with a fair salary. So either way, a job would always be more preferable than an internship (even if it was a v low wage). I know that students can demand a wage if they are there for more than a year... ok, 11 months work for nothing is legal. Great. Much better. Young people need to be shown that there are rewards for hard work.
Work experience for a week, 2 weeks, thats ok, but several months of unpaid work should be illegal.