Stuck with internship requirements—afraid I won’t graduate
For MS in Clinical MH Counseling degree:
I have been trying to sort out this internship stuff for over a year now. I keep hitting dead ends. I NEED to work a full time job or I’ll be homeless and delinquent on all bills. They’re not allowing me to do my internship at my place of employment (this is now the THIRD job I’ve changed to try and make it work). How do I make an external internship work on top of a full time job!? I live in a rural area and there aren’t many options, let alone even if those options ARE available, they only run traditional hours M-F 9-5. I work M-F 7-330. Do they really expect us to either be so privileged that we do not need a job, or expect us to work 40 hours a week and then somehow add in an extra 30 hours a week for internship? Where?! How?! No where has the hours in a workday to even make that work! Hardly anywhere is open on weekends and even if they were, that leaves me working 7 days a week and STILL not enough hours to meet the 30 hours a week average for internship. I’m at a loss. Also let’s add onto the fact that most places are at least an hours drive away from my home. I have zero solutions this is ridiculous. Also, I have tried applying for a Sally Mae loan, in the case of me just NOT having a job & racking up more debt, but I was denied. I don’t have a husband or family that can just pay my bills for 6 months either.